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Culture experience in Hsinchu

I was invited to experience some culture in Hsinchu last Sunday...

Feels good to take the old bus to Hsinchu..."not birds" and "no mokus passengers", i guess its so common that these to guests are extra forbidden on buses here in taiwan...

Rainy weekend...initially...

Some school kids were guiding us...

We played games to remember each others names...

And visited some stores in Hsinchu downtown...

And went to an old market...

We were suppose to bargain get as cheap banana as possible...

It was easy to get lost in here...

I cant say im good in this...but I started to scan the market....

And after asking about the rules, I bought some mini bananas, that was not really eatable yet...but I got them pretty cheap...

We also got to try some local food...rice starch and red meat...

And dumplings...

This place was famous we were told...

Lost again...how do we find the way out...?

I also got some free fruit from some locals...

An old street...

And an old tempel...

You enter on the right and leave from the left door...and never step on the threshold (even though I saw some locals doing it)...

And people are suppose to pay, for making wish....

Omg, someone almost stepped on the threshold...

Omg...it was like 50-60cm long...they wanted to challenge the visitors for sure...

And some other things ppl could buy...like toy money, crackers incents etc...

This is where you turn the incents on fire...

And here are some things you throw on the floor to see if your wish comes true...

And here you burn the fake money...

We also passed this store, where I also passed 4 years ago with my friend anders...he was hungry and wanted this spagetti soup...but lost his appatite, when he gof noodles on ice with some wierd fruit and sweet beans...

We continied to this bakery...i have been here before, I think they once had a rat in the bread, not sure...and lost many customers....

This place was also famous...

And this....

Atleast we bought bittermelon juice...omg, so bitter....

And this medicine store was interesting, smelled like a swedish teastore...but more smoky...

The doctor told the girl that she was sick...or something...

Now the sun was strong...

We contined to a rice store, old fashion...

He showed us old equipment...

He was certified by the goverment to sell rice or something...

More equipment, maybe this was from japan...

And some local food...if its oily its good...and exclusive...we were told...

Some potato muffin...

And some old tempel again...

And the "north gate" of hsinchu, it doesnt exist anymore, but they had this momument as a memory...

And a puppet store...the owner was not there...but the students prepared an interview from the day before on their pad...

Omg, a burgerbar, i havnt been here yet...but visit it...

Omg, if a stupid foreinger enters...I wonder what they think. "no smoking", "no fox (or dogs)", "no food or drink"...you must smily, and some stomach pain?

Next stop ws some meatball store...

Interesting illustrations...

A guy was speaking chinese...some times he but some english words for us foreingers...I heard "1938" in english...I wonder if he thought we understood what the context was...

We got some tools to mash pork...

They also told us that the interior design was special, with the floor creating luck etc...

mashing meat...

They prepared some mashed meat, since it takes 3 hours to do ot by hand...

Gloves on...

And squeeze the meat to balls...

and then into hot water...

We got some more rice strach in red meat...

And rice dumplings...

"1938" i think they started their business...

Here are the meatballs e made...

Alot of cups...

They bought the tiolet sign from some store...but didnt consider that it said "in the basement to the right" or something...so many people were confused, since the toilet was just in side this door...