Bye Bye SG...Let's go to Taipei now 4-7 Nov 2012

It had been many years since I had been to Taiwan. I had visited Taiwan for countless times but I hadn't done any sight-seeing. So this time round, we visited Taiwan for a 4-Day trip. Kind of a short trip but to hubby & myself, we thought 4 days trip is fairly fine to us as we are travelling with 3 young children... Though we had brought our helper along, but I guess 4 days are sufficiently more than enough, else... we should be tired of exhausation with the kids??? hahahaha....

We had booked a hotel located in 西门町，Swiio Hotel. It is a new boutique hotel with very unique designs. Rooms are of abit of a small scale... Should be just big enough for 1-2 persons:-p Below are the pictures we taken from the lobby... something different huh?

 We left our baggages with the hotel and started our sight-seeing upon the 1st day of our arrival into Taipei. We had hired a local driver to bring us around, and he had brought us to 野柳 to see those geographic rock structures. It has a very beautiful scenery as you can see. The girls enjoyed it too.

 The picture below on the top right hand, it is a popular trademark there, and they called it "The Queen's Head" Look like one? But this one we took wasn't the actual one... hehehehe... The rest of the pictures were some corrosion of the rocks.

 After 野柳, we headed off to 九份. It was a very busy town. There are alot of tourists and locals who wil come and visit this little town. It is bustling with lots of people and of course, alot of yummy food and souvenirs to buy.

 After 九份, we headed off to 十份where people go there to put the 孔明灯. It is a lantern which the Taiwanese believe that writing your wishes down on the lantern, and light it up into the sky, your wish will come true??? Will it?

So Mimi was busy "drawing" on the lantern while Mummy  was off looking around and shopping for souvenirs before we ended our tiring day....

 Here are some of the food around our hotel in 西门町.

 On the 2nd day, we went to 淡水. It was also a very busy town. Lots of people too but it was definitely a great place to go too if you enjoyed food and the beautiful seaview.

 Oh, and not forgetting, I had to visit their Hello Kitty Sweets Restaurant. Because everything was HELLO KITTY!!! Food wise... I personally think it was just so-so. Prices are quite costly due to Hello Kitty trademarks.

 And also, we visited Taipei Main Train Station on the 3rd day.... There were a few underground shopping malls, but nothing fancied me probably due to the season change to winter soon, so most of the clothes were of winter wear.. Tough luck... But Mimi got a good deal, buying her boots at only NT200(sgd$8)!!!

 Here are some of the food I bought from the Taipei Main Station...

Egg Pudding in an Egg...

 AMO cakes... which was highly recommended to try when in Taipei...

Hmmm, well, to me this cheesecake was just so-so... Probably because I think my cakes are much better? Oopsie...



Let's go to BKK (26-29 Sep 2012)

Hubby & myself went to Bangkok last year. But this year, the girls went along... They were all very excited, including my helper... Say Bye Bye to Singapore and let's go to BKK now!!!!

Welcome to BKK....I love BKK, of 1 reason is because they have a special clearance lane for travelers with young children, disabled, old folks. I'm impressed with this service they had...:)

This is Baiyoke Sky Hotel, the highest hotel building in BKK, about 81th storey tall. We had a room located at the 50th floor... Look at how spacious our room was with a huge bathroom as well. Of course, a nice nigth scenery... The lights in BKK...:-p 

 We started out our night at the night market below our hotel. Street food dinner followed by shopping and back to hotel to end our day....

BKK might not be a great place for young children but it definitely a shopping heaven for me and my helper, well, my girls too, we had all enjoyed our shopping adventure trip in BKK... hahaha!!!!

Shopping, here we come!!!!

 Day 2 in BKK, i had brought the girls to Siam Ocean World. It is a indoor aquarium located in Siam Paragon Shopping Mall. It is about 2 levels, with lots of interesting sea & land creatures. Some were an eye-opener for us.... We even had our 10mins fish spa, a boat ride + a 5D movie... Per Pax had cost me abt S$40 for adult.

 Swimming is a part of our itinerary in our holiday trips... The girls love the pool, the water. They really enjoyed it even though the water was icy-cold...!!!! Gosh, it had took me quite a while before imerging myself into the pool whereas the girls had just simply popped into the pool and started playing... -_-"

 These are some of the yummy street food not to be missed... This Banana Prata was awfully delicious!!!! Topped with condensed milk n chocolate syrup... yummy... They even had different flavors... which I had yet to try...

 These Thai desserts, made to be like "real fruits" which are made of green bean paste, the jellies, the mango with sticky rice, oh, and the homemade cream puffs...

 Time for massage!!!! Looks like Nic is enjoying very much, giggling while the lady massaged her... Mimi... just fiddling around...

 Time to go back to SG after our 4D3N trip in BKK.

Bye Bye BKK, we will be back soon... In Jan 2013???

Malacca 8-10 June 2012 - Part 1

What have I been up to.......????

It's been quite awhile since my last post... I tried to do my posting in the office, but it seems like there are some problems using the blog in my office PC, thus I had been away for quite some time.

Anyway, my family and I had went to Malacca, a 3D2N stay. We hadn't been there before and neither had hubby drove there once. So it was kind of our 1st long driving outing to Malaysia... We took our chance, used our GPR but our GPR keep prompting us to exit to the small route to Malacca:-p We ignored it and drove straight along the highway and finally managed to found our exit to Malacca. It was a very smooth, long drive, except for the road blocks and car accident along the way up. Coming back was pretty smooth too. No hiccups, except that every time after we stopped over and drove off, MiMi will tell us that she is urgent and she needed to pee...hahaha...

 Here are some of the pictures I took from our trip... This is one of the chicken stall that we went to. Malacca's famous chicken rice balls. There were a few shops selling the chicken rice, but we went to this Famosa Chicken Rice shop, of which its queue wasn't too long. We don't really fancy the chicken balls too well, we preferred the normal rice.

 For the 1st night, we stayed in Mahkota Hotel. I have booked a 2 bedroom. Very spacious, with a living area, dining area and a kitchen. But of course we didn't get the chance to use much of the living area or the kitchen. Nice apartment but abit rundown... Perhaps the hotel could do some renovations soon and the hotel will be excellent!

 We arrived about 6pm in the evening, so we headed straight to Mahkota Parade Shopping Mall to have our dinner and deserts... hahahaha...

 The 2nd day, we check-in to Hotel Equatorial, a five star hotel, which was definitely much better. As for location wise, it was so much nearer to the shopping malls, the heritage buildings and Jonker Street.

 Here are some of the food that we came across with... Lots of food.... Like the chendol, durian puffs, ice-cream, BBQ cuttlefish, those piah, pineapple tarts. And of course, shops that the kids fancy...

 This is Hotel Equatorial. We had a very beautiful view from the hotel, day & night. The gals liked this hotel very much. And of course, needless to say, their favourite place in the hotel, the nice, huge swimming pool....

 Part of the reason for this trip to Malacca, was also to celebrate Nat's 5th birthday. A little getaway for her... So we bought her a slice of her chocolate cake from Secret Recipe...

 This is 3rd day, our more food trying in Jonker Street.... Yummy, the Baba Chicken Laksa, the Fried Fish Cake, the Durian Chendol... Awesome....!!!!

That was our trip... A good one, but we will be expecting to go back to Malacca in July again... Hubby and I had decided that we should go back there again to try the food that we have yet to try out... For the gals, the swimming pool & shopping... Me... shopping too!!! Yipee...

See you Malacca, in July soon...;))