On Monday, my mom and I went to see the early cherry blossoms that had just bloomed on Yangmingshan, part of the Taiwan national park. It is a really pretty and well preserved space.
This is the beginning of the cherry blossom season in Taiwan, which is part of the larger flower festival. Successive cherry blossom trees (different types bloom at different times) will bloom throughout the park over the next two or three months.
After all of this walking, I just had to have this Taiwanese sausage - the smell was overpowering all of my senses and causing me to salivate as we waited for our buses to go back to town. The sausage was grilled to perfection, slightly charred, bursting with fat and flavor. I chomped down on two pieces of raw garlic along with the sausage. Yum. Only 35NT, or just over $1! So worth it.
After Yangmingshan, we went to Chiang Kai Shek's former residence in Shilin, Taipei. His late wife loved roses and to this day there is an immense rose garden, full of pink, white, peach, red, yellow roses, with names like "Hot Blush" and "Ice Princess." The grounds are very well landscaped, with a lot of trees and flowers and well manicured grass.
This is the beginning of the cherry blossom season in Taiwan, which is part of the larger flower festival. Successive cherry blossom trees (different types bloom at different times) will bloom throughout the park over the next two or three months.
Pretty tired after all of this walking, we went to the mall at Sogo to eat dinner (everything else is closed in Taipei for the new year!) and I insisted on dessert at the fish cake stand - where they make delicious fluffy batter in the shapes of fish, with your choice of peanut, taro, red bean or cream butter filling. Yum. Also 35NT, and also so worth it.
Red bean filling:
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