Taiwan—Tainan 2016-10-2

After a good night sleep, I woke up with a view of beautiful and quiet Tainan from my hotel room window.

The weather today is partly cloudy with temperature of 27 - 31 ℃ (80 - 87 ℉) with humidity 76 %.  That means, it will be a free  sauna day. 

My friend loves the local food.  The local street food evoked my childhood memory.

Wheel Pies is one of the top 45 Taiwanese foods listed on CNN travel site.  The crust of Wheel Pies is made of flour, eggs, and sugar.  The filling can be red bean, cream, chocolate, peanut, taro, dried radish, and dried cabbage).  I had dried radish one.  It was amazing!

Sting Tofu (臭豆腐) is another top of Taiwanese street food.  You will either like it or hate it, and I love it.

We went to a very  be autiful Europen style restaurant, Mi Yeun (米約時尚輕食).  With the healthy food concept, Mi Yeun creates delicious delicacies. We enjoyed the cuisine in the atmosphere of European classical and rural art. 

After lunch, we went to Sio House (夕遊出張所).  The Chinese name of Sio House is very strange.  My friend and I could not understand the meaning of its Chinese name.  After went in the Sio House, I finally realized.  Salt is pronounced “sio” (夕遊) in Japanese. In the days when salt was controlled by the Japanese government , Sio House served as an office for storage, selling, and inspection of salt.

Chihkan Tower (赤崁樓) was a Dutch outpost in the West Central District of Tainan in Taiwan. It was built in 1653 during the Dutch colonization of Taiwan. However, the original tower was destroyed by an earthquake in the 19th century.  In front of the outdoor steps, there are twelve lions with two kinds of different styles, and each of them had different poses.  They were sculpted in 19 century, and look vigorours.

It was a hot day!  After walked around under the sun for couple hours, we were ready for our afternoon tea.

In Tainan, we found many stores and interesting things in the ally.