My Fantabulous Taiwan Trip 26/07/2013 Day 1

After finishing my studies in Sheffield Hallam University in 2010, it's been 3 years that I've never step out from this country. Finally, I've got my chance to go travelling again and thanks a lot to my hometown friend as well as Tony who had given me this chance to fly with them!

Now let me share with you all about my trip which also act as my memory for the trip.

Day 1

Arriving in Taiwan Tao Yuan International Airport (台湾桃园国际机场）

Welcome to Taiwan!!!

As usual, we are lack of 1 of the member, the Big UBI!!!

After arriving at the airport, we went to buy the Sim Card in Taiwan immediately in order to enable communication among us as well as our family. 

FarEastTone offer us about NTD500 for 8 days unlimited web surfing as well as credit of NTD 350. I would suggest the other tourist to go and survery among 3 companies before you all pick up any service. 

Other than just getting the telco service, it's important to get yourself a youth travel card which is free from the Taiwan Tourism department. The only thing that U need to fullfill is that U need to be below 30 years old to enjoy the perks of it! Its quite important as this card will give U lots of discount for the entrance ticket of the Govt own attraction such as the Farm in Ching Jing (清境农场）

After getting all the thing that we need, we are now leaving the airport by taking the shuttle bus from the international airport to Feng Jia night market (逢甲夜市). The shuttle bus cost us about NTD240. 

Along the journey from airport til the Chao Ma Station, we've noticed that the driver seat of the vehicle here is on the left hand side instead of right hand side and the vehicle is driving at the right hand side of the road. This is quite different from the traffic in Malaysia. On the other hand, we noticed that the building here is quite dull in colour and they are quite old I guess.

It takes about 2 hours from the airport til Chao Ma Station (朝马车站） which is the nearest station to the Feng Jia market. We've walk about 30 minutes from the station to our hotel which is J&I 逢甲美宿館. 

This is my room and the atmosphere is fantastic! I hope that I can have the same thing in future!

 The cost of the room on that night is NTD1500

This is the room for my best buddy which cost NTD1500 too!

After arriving at the hotel, We've decided to visit the night market immediately as we are all feeling hungry.

Even though the distant of the hotel from the Chao Ma station is quite far, but the distant of the hotel and the Feng Jia Night Market is just about 5 minutes which mean I've made the right choice and my research didn't fails me!

As U can see, this is the street at Feng Jia night market. There a quite a lot of people around and the traffic here really drive us crazy!

The 1st hunt of the day! Tako Tao! Actually me and my GF were attracted by the crowd as we thought that it must be a famous shop due to the long queue.

To be frank, the Tako Tao has a big piece of squid in it but I think the taste was a bit too light or maybe my taste bud is not as good as Taiwanese, all I can say is I can't taste the fragrance of the squid and the only best thing is that piece of Squid.

So this is the photo of the Tako Tao, this shop gives you option of Seaweed or the fish flake. As a result, we opt for the seaweed as we don't have such thing in Malaysia.

Believe it or not, we saw the notice board mentioning that they are hiring and the pay will be above NTD30000 which translate to about RM3100 Malaysia. Can U imagine? A hawker giving such pay??? It's even higher than most of the pay for the fresh grad in Malaysia!

After the Tako Tao, It's time for Taiwanese Roti Canai! We were conned due to the long queue as well. The Pancake is about the same as Roti Canai. 1 thing that I oberves from the shop is that the shell of the eggs in Taiwan are all white in colour!

Bake Corn and I got conned again. LoL.. But still, it's worth to give it a shot!

This is one of the famous thing in Feng Jia which I can't find in other night market such as Shi Lin. Its the Barbeque Prawn which is fresly catch and cook!

The taste of the prawn is quite nice and they havenumerous powder to spice up the prawn. This is a very nice food to try.

This Golden Chicken Wrap is quite special as well. The owner marinated the thigh meat of the chicken and wrap it with chicken skin. It's a bit weird for me as I don't really like the chicken skin, but the taste of the marinated meat is good and its worth trying too!

 Thanks to Big Ubi, this ishe best thing that I found from this night market. Its the 奶油啤酒！The beer ain't bitter after adding the 奶油 and its a bit sweet in taste. To those who are coming to Feng Jia, I think I couldn't find this drink in Shi Lin as well. So its wise to try it at Feng Jia.

Last but not least, there are still a dessert call Ice Cream Banana coated with Choclate. The taste of the dessert is awesome too and it only appears in Feng Jia.

There goes my first nigh in Taiwan. Its tiring but the experience here is great.

A kind reminder to those who are going to visit here soon, it's wise to buy the thing that you want here as some of the items are only available here. On the other hand, U can do some survey around the mask shop here, the price are really cheap!

海記興化飯店 RESTORAN HOI KEE HENG HWA @ Taman Desa

I have some friends who are 興化 but til date, I never heard anything special about their traditional food until my GF tells me that there is a shop which is quite famous with their food. We've decided to try and it really gives me a decent surprise.

The outlook of the restaurant is quite normal and not very classy and it's quite small actually. Even though its small, but the restaurant is quite clean and I would give quite a high rating for the hygiene. 

The first dish 

The fried chicken is quite crispy and it has ham in it. To those who love salty food, this will be a good choice but personally think that its a bit too salty and a little overcooked too.

 The rating for this chicken will be about 4/10 only.

蚝煎, Oyster omelette

The omelette is SUPERB!!! The Oyster that they use are all quite big in size, on the other hand, they didn't put too much glutinuous flour which makes the omelette sticky like what those hawker did. 

The omelette is not too salty and the texture of the egg is really nice. All I can say is the chef do control the "fire" well and making sure that the egg is just well done and not overcooked. 

I will give it a 8 over 10 for it's rating. (MUST TRY!!!)

蚝面线 Oyster Mee Sua 

This Oyster Mee Sua is fantastic! It's a must try too, and U will regret for not ordering it. LOL.

If U come to visit this shop withouht ordering this Mee Sua, it's like U went to china but didn't visist the Great Wall of China! 

This Mee Sua comes with some fried sea weed, peanuts, and lots of oyster with a  little soup. Yes, what I meant little is really little.

I'm serious, they don't give U lots of soup but just a little and the taste of the soup is really good! The soup serve best with the mee sua. We did request to have more soup but the shopkeeper insist that we have to follow their way.

 

The Oysters being use here is fresh and big in size. How big? It is almost the size of my thumb and this size is best serve with their Mee Sua as well as their Omelette.

 This Mee Sua had get my 10/10 rating too! (MUST TRY!!!)

Last but not least, the 紫菜羹 @ Seaweed soup is fantastic too! 

 

 紫菜羹 @ Seaweed soup

The soup itself contain Seaweed, eggs, Taofu and some crab stick. The soup is quite thick and U may call it sticky but the taste is really good and its even better than those Shark Fin soup! It's really amazing that how can the chef can cook something so well by using so little ingredients. 

I will give 10/10 for this soup too! (MUST TRY!!!)

Pricing

The pricing of the shop is consider reasonable among the category of restaurant as most of the dishes above cost below RM20 per dish or even lower. and the total damages for this dinner is somewhere around RM70.

Conclusion 

 This shop is fantastic! As all of my friends know, I have a very choosy taste bud and can really condemn a lot when it comes to food. It's not easy to get a good rating from me and this shop has got 2 dishes that being rate as 10/10, so U can imagine whether how good the taste of the food here is. 

On the other hand, this shop is highly recommended for those oyster lovers too!

Restoran Hoi Kee Heng Hwa 海記興化飯店
Add: No 16, Jalan 1/109E, Desa Business Park, Taman Desa, off Jalan Klang Lama, 58100, Kuala Lumpur.
Tel:03-7981 8878
Business Hours: 12:00-15:00 & 18:00-22:00

为什么伊斯兰教不吃猪肉???

为什么伊斯兰教不吃猪肉。给大家普及一下吧！是穆斯林或觉得说得好的转了。

经常可以有人问，为什么穆斯林不吃猪肉，吃了会死吗？甚至有人说“穆斯林不吃猪肉是因为猪救或猪是穆斯林的祖先”。说这种话的人要么是无知文盲，要么就是居心叵测，破坏团结的奸妄小人。
爱因斯坦和马克思都不吃猪肉，因为犹太人和大部分基督徒都不吃猪肉。穆斯林不吃猪肉的原因是《古兰经》明文禁止穆斯林吃猪肉。
古兰经指出不洁的食物只有三种：（１）自死物，（２）血液，（３）猪肉，
事实上，不吃猪肉并不是穆斯林的专利，也不是《古兰经》首倡禁止。往上追溯五千多年，综观各宗教及文化，人类为何普遍厌猪、禁猪呢？拟从以下几方面谈起：

一、貌丑、怪异，性贪婪、愚笨。世界各民族语言在形容人貌丑、懒散、愚笨等方面都用“猪”字形容。就连我们周围的有些人，在说某个人太笨的时候，也都开玩笑似的说“某某人太\'猪\'了。”

二、喜污秽。其生活区域肮脏不堪，食用的饲料也是污秽的，难与食草类动物相比。

三、性恶无常。俗话说：“虎毒不食子”，但猪一旦饿极连生猪崽也照食不误。一般动物，即便小鸟也会与饲养它的人建立某种感情，义犬救主等动物助人的故事广为人知，但猪却有时连饲养它的人的婴孩也有拱死吃掉的现象，其性较之虎狼有过之而不及。

四、乱伦交配。幼猪一旦到发情期，有的会同生养他的母（公）猪交配，繁衍后代无上下、尊幼之分。而牛羊则不会这样。

还有，猪的脖子上只有一根筋，既不能看到天，也不能回头，穆斯林们是讲究回心转意的，而猪的这一特性和穆斯林们的这一生活习惯背道而驰，这也是穆斯林们不吃猪肉的一个原因。猪肉，本身就不是什么好东西。中医就知道，一个病人病重的时候，医生说：“回去炖点牛肉，羊肉补一补。”你见过医生让吃猪肉的吗？猪肉是败肉类，身体不好的吃了能把人吃死的。还有，中国的职业球员，外国教练对他们第一条要求就是不吃猪肉。
五、 古今中外的医学家都曾提出过他们的科学见解。明代医学家李时珍人称医圣。他曾在其名著《本草纲目》写道：『猪，吃不择食，卧不择埠，目不观天，行如病夫。其性淫，其肉寒，其形象至丑陋，一切动物莫劣于此，人若食之恐染其性」。又说：「南猪味厚，其毒尤甚。」他的意思是说南方的猪其毒害是极大的，这自然会使人们联想到其它地方的猪也是有害的。关于猪的各部位对人的危害他进一步分析说：「猪肉：凡猪肉苦微寒，有小毒。凡猪肉能闭血脉，弱筋骨，虚人肌。凡肉有补，睢猪肉无补。猪，猪肉毒唯在其首，疾者食之生风发疾。猪心多耗心气。猪肝，猪临杀惊气归心，绝气归肝，俱尔可食，食必伤人。猪肾，久食令人伤肾。冬月不可食，损人真气。
从现代医学的角度来说，猪身上的病毒病菌和寄生虫最容易传染给人，上世纪之初大规模爆发的＂西班牙＂流感其源头就是一种猪身上的流感病毒。
看了这些，穆圣所言猪乃不洁之物就不难理解了。而这才是伊斯兰教为什么不吃猪肉的主要原因。

After reading this, will u still eat pork??? 

Haha.. I think nothing can stop me.. lol.. 

大利来记 1968 澳门 (Non-Halal)

Happen to passby the newly open Macau's Pork Burger around IOI Boulevard. 

As a food hunter, the famous pork burger had successfully tempted me to give a visit. 

A picture tells thousand words, the photo above had shown that the "STAR" of the shop will be our cute little piggy and the slogan of the shop is really good.

Before visiting the shop, I thought that it will be running like those Hong Kong's restaurant such as Wong Kok, but I was wrong! The concept of the shop is just like fast food restaurant such as KFC or McD and the customers will have to queue to put their order and wait for their number to collect the food.

                                   U can see that all the customers are Queueingto order their food!

                                                   Let's take a look at the menu!
The shop offers meal set such as burgers, rice, chicken wings, curry fish ball as well as noodles with pork, this set will provide drinks such as the famous Macau Milk Tea or soft drinks.

Set A ~ Signature Pork Chop Bun & Drink (RM13.90)

The Signature Pork Chop Bun is just a Pork Chop that comes with the bun without any sauce or vegetable in it.

 

The taste of the Signature Pork Chop Bun doesn't really impress me.
1. It just like a pork that was marinated with chinese fermented bean curd which taste so so only but the good thing is that the meat is soft and wouldn't be too hard for biting.
2. The pork chop still has bone sticking on it. This is not a big issue, but the fractured bone had causes difficulty in eating which makes me feel uneasy. 
> If I were to rate it, I would only give 3/10. I knew that I'm a little harsh but this really makes me feel wasted. 

Set B Polo Pork Chop Bun & Drinks (RM13.90)

 

Just like The Signature Pork Chop Bun, the Polo Bun with Pork Chop is also comes with the bun without any sauce or vegetable in it.

 The combination of Polo Bun with the Pork Chop is far more better compare to Set A.
1. As we know the Polo Bun is sweet and this is a fantastic match with the pork chop which is a bit salty. 
2. The pork chop is still having the same problem of the fractured bones.
3. The Bun wasn't really as crispy as thos Polo Bun from other places.
> I would rate this as 4.5/10 and its far more better than the Signature Bun.

 ALA CARTE ~ Macau Chicken Wings (RM9.90)

 The chicken wings was just like the pork chop, marinated with fermented bean curd. The skin was crispy but again, I guess the Burmese workers there love to eat "overcooked" chicken wings. The meat was a bit chewy due to overcooked
> The rating for the chicken wing is just about 3/10. 

Macau Milk Tea (Comes with the food set)

 

The Macau Milk Tea here wasn't really fit my food bud, it's just like the tea being offered at Mamak Stall. 

As a Malaysian, I will still prefer the Teh Ais from those malay stalls which I think is far more better than this.

 

This is our dinner for  07/07/2013

Total Damages

In short, I think the food here is worth to try if you have never been to Macau.

( I haven't been there either)

Personally, I think this will be the 1st and last time of my visit as the food here does't really impress me and unable to fit my taste bud. On the other hand, the price for the food here wasn't really cheap but 1 thing that good about them is that they don't charge Govt Tax as well as Service charge. 

To Those who would like to try this shop out, the picture below might helps.

 

The shop is just next to the Tong Pak Fu at IOI Boulevard, Puchong