Taichung Day 5

 Typhoon holiday today.

Last night I woke up during sleep with in digestion around 1:30am, managed to fall asleep and then woke up and hour later, with intense gag reflex and I ended up running to the bathroom and vomiting. 😭 the shallot smell was quite strong and I could see some rice in the bowl. Whhyyyyy the acidic taste is so badddd. It made my throat swollen when I went back to bed throughout the night.

I ended up getting up late because of the lack of sleep.... :') 

And then turns out (after late breakfast), that 二叔 said we are going to cuz Joy's auntie's place for lunch???? Uhhh I wanted to stay home and rest. 😭

Ended up going anyway and it was quite windy at the intersection on our way to their apartment after parking the car. A few spits of rain. Auntie had cooked a few more dishes including the 蘿蔔糕 we got from the buffet dinner yesterday (it was a gift). The 蘿蔔糕 has a very strong 蘿蔔 taste, it's quite nice. She also good a type of drunked chicken with Korean rice cake, and two vege dishes along with a baby corn, tofu, and seaweed soup. 二叔 bought KFC on the way. The chicken here is so much nicer than NZ?? Heck the skin is crispy and flavoured, and the chicken is moist. The skin is always soggy in NZ and the chicken kinda dry. They also had nuggies and tart. They still call the nuggies 麥克雞塊 even though it's not from McDonalds!!! xD Classic case of brand name becoming item name. Uncle sliced some papaya and it was ripe and delicious. 

After lunch we sat and just watched TV while auntie tidied up. I noted they had a Hitachi air purifier (cool!!!) that I had never seen before. They also had their balcony door open and one at the kitchen end, so there was some cross ventilation. Also their bathroom doesn't smell dank even though there's no window!

They have a fish pond in the communal area....

If you stretch your hands out the fish comes and gathers cause they think you got food lol

At 3pm we headed home because the rain is supposed to come in soon. 二叔 did an interesting thing at the management box (gatekeeper at the entrance) where he gives them his car keys and gets an elevator key in exchange to visit. And then return the elevator keys to get his car keys back.

二叔 stopped at a fruitsmonger and we bought some 釋迦, large green/yellow mandarins, Fuji apples. Then hometime and I was pretty tired... made myself some tea then started working on the pomelo. This one isn't as flavourful as the last one I had.

Golden dragonfruit. First time seeing it!

Eating Pomelo whilst typhoon... feels like 中秋 LOL

Caught up on some anime (Shangri-La Frontier, then Re:Zero S3 later in the evening), then had dinner which was just some thin noodles in fools sauce. Accidentally set my noodles on fire because the gas stove flame was larger than the pot. Oops. I ended up scrubbing the fridge exterior and also the adjacent wall so it's nice and clean now. 

Some tea and got told to shower early in case we get a power or water cut. It's not even 7pm... alright. 

After that I just surfed the net, caught up on animes (seriously try-lingualing with Re:Zero because it's region blocked on Crunchy, so I have to watch it on Muse). 

Think I will go to sleep early. And finally be able to visit some shops tomorrow.