day 2, part 2
after the break, we headed back out to snake alley. jason pussied out and didn't want snake soup (heh heh). i personally thought it looked great, apparently he thought that watching snake guts hung up weren't appealing. oh well. i've had em before already last time i visited (snake blood, turtle blood, and snake soup). we caroused the alley for awhile, eventually coming upon a food stand i remembered from before. these bread baos filled with ground beef and filled with green onions baked in a kiln. delicious and hot. we snacked on those while we kept walking through another night market. i also got some green onion pancake, nice and fresh. (geez, now I'm starting to freak out how much i talk about food).
after finishing our little snacks, we headed to longshan temple. according to the lunar calendar, it is now the middle of july, and time of worshiping our ancestors' spirits. there was much praying, bowing, and incense at the temple. pretty extravagent temple, huge roof decorations, very beautiful. we got pretty lucky to hit it at the right time.
after that, we decided to try and search for a local bar or pub or club. we walked around for at least an hour, and came up totally empty. and kinda lost, but we managed to find our way back quickly to the metro station and head back home. we walked to one club near our place, but it's pretty expensive to get in, and we were pretty beat anyway, so we just hit up a jazz bar right underneath our own place called Capone's. It's owned by some ex-pat, and he got up and drunkenly made some toast to a dear friend's departed father. bizarre. and how can you forget the asian jazz band singing classics like "dancing queen" and "it's so easy to fall in love." (videos of that on the way).
after a nice big bottle of Taipei Gold and Jason's usual Glen Livet, we headed back up home and crashed. another day down, only about 28 more to go...
here are some photos from that night...
the intricate entrance to the snake alley night market
while getting lost, we happened upon professor xavier's school for mutants. cooooool...(yeah, we're dorks)
this is the blurry image of two snakes that have been gutted and hung for our viewing pleasure. it's blurry cause we weren't allowed to take photos, so i had to do it pretty fast. this is what grossed out jason. eh, meat is meat, i say...
after finishing our little snacks, we headed to longshan temple. according to the lunar calendar, it is now the middle of july, and time of worshiping our ancestors' spirits. there was much praying, bowing, and incense at the temple. pretty extravagent temple, huge roof decorations, very beautiful. we got pretty lucky to hit it at the right time.
after that, we decided to try and search for a local bar or pub or club. we walked around for at least an hour, and came up totally empty. and kinda lost, but we managed to find our way back quickly to the metro station and head back home. we walked to one club near our place, but it's pretty expensive to get in, and we were pretty beat anyway, so we just hit up a jazz bar right underneath our own place called Capone's. It's owned by some ex-pat, and he got up and drunkenly made some toast to a dear friend's departed father. bizarre. and how can you forget the asian jazz band singing classics like "dancing queen" and "it's so easy to fall in love." (videos of that on the way).
after a nice big bottle of Taipei Gold and Jason's usual Glen Livet, we headed back up home and crashed. another day down, only about 28 more to go...
here are some photos from that night...
the intricate entrance to the snake alley night market
while getting lost, we happened upon professor xavier's school for mutants. cooooool...(yeah, we're dorks)
this is the blurry image of two snakes that have been gutted and hung for our viewing pleasure. it's blurry cause we weren't allowed to take photos, so i had to do it pretty fast. this is what grossed out jason. eh, meat is meat, i say...
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