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There is one thing I forgot about yesterday, we had a visit to a place where an old guy made soybean sauce! It was my first time seeing the process of this sauce, and I found that it is very hard and time consuming! The beans had to be in big jars for half a year!!! The man was so hard working and kind...

Today my host and the other guests in Chungain went to sculpture museum in the nearby city, which was an hour and a half away by car. It was amazing but unfortunately we were not allowed to take photos. There were excuisite wood carvings and I loved them, then we bought some souvenirs at the market nearby!

Then we went for lunch at a restaurant and had Haka meal, which is a combination of a lot of foods in the middle of table, with rice of course! It was OK but not exactly my type, so I mostly took sprouts and a little chicken and vegetables.

We tried candies there in markets and got a package as a gift from our hosts.

After lunch we went to the National Museum of Arts in which there was an exhibition of Chogal's paintings. It was amazing and I loved that. The museum was also nice, with a lot of paintings, photos and artworks from the Taiwanese!

After that we went to the Night Market which was fantastic! It was very crowded and full of foods, drinks and ice creams! We tried Taiwanese sausages which are made by rich and meat, in a rice sandwich! It was very new to me and I almost liked it. We also had bubble tea there, from PARTY SHOW which was really good. There are sweet potatoes in that which are like jelly drops, and I liked the taste of milk in tea! We had some Thai food, if I am right, which included shrimps in it! I liked it although I do not eat shrimps!! I am happy I took some shrimps at last :D

There were also a lot of other shops like clothes shops and accessories, from which I bought some earrings and socks, and will buy sandals when we go there again.

Then we had a ride home by our hosts.

I know Frank got so tired today, he patiently took us to may places and markets.

The cities and towns I have been to so far are very clean and people are very polite, too. The foods are nice and the drinks are great! Toilets are clean and most of them have toilet papers! Trash cans are very rare, don't know why, and thus we didn't know where we could dump the trash we had :D I gathered them in a plastic bag and brought them home, there should be a way to get rid of it...lol 















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