A visit to LiYun Beer bar

I paid a visit to a new beer bar recently
It was in the central parts of taipei
An old quote was at the entrance
They offered many kind of beers...but had 4 of their own...which were from the Xian brewery in Hsinchu...which the taste could tell...
Beer one...LiYun Lager
I also tried some beef which tated almost like Swedish Dillkött
Beer two was LoiYun Pale Ale
And the third one was the last one...Sambar...IPA...pretty bitter...they were sold out of the fourth beer...
Their menu board was pretty empty...little texst on alot of surface...interesting design...
They had some wierd logos...
 
 

A day at northeastern Taiwan

I met Karate kid and Captain Haddock yesterday...
Dressed for success as usual...
We planned to see some water fall in the north east of taiwan...
Omg...Puyuma train is the fast one...but it doesnt stay at that many stataions...
Its hard to find the right train...some random police helped us out...
Then we went for beer...
Alfred had his tourist bag with him...
Omg...a fjällräven on the platform...
They are more often promoting taiwan destinations now on the trains...
First stop was Shifen...for some waterfall and night market inspectations... (and I took the karate kid role)...
Its pretty chaotic on the rail...
Train arrives...feels like in india...very crowded...losses are expected...
"JS"...thats me!...
This place is famous for the flying lantern, I bought one here last time i visited...
Itw a big industry...
People writing wishes...and taking pics...
Strange but funny...when the train comes everyone moves...then they get back on the rail again...
Even the pavement decoration have flying lanterns...
We went on a path fo see the waterfall..but it as very crappy, since the locals want to earn money...they more or less blocked the view...
...so that people, after walking 1-2km had to pay to see tha waterfall...
...taiwan turns touristic....
We went on some bridge back...
This is tha waterfall on a "nice day"...
Since im with the swedes, they have a different way of thinking aobut spending money...a "cheap" taxi took us 700m for 150nt...
But we still had to walk 500m since the driver wanted to save time...
Taxi drivers here act like in vietnam och main land china...
Back to the night market...
The train was pretty full back to Ruifang...where we started...
But we squeezed...since it leaves like once or twice per hour...
Once down at ruifang we took andother bus up to another village...
With nice view...
Its near Teapot mountian, which i wanted to climb for a long time...
We also had some coffee there...boosting my caffein level...
More picture taking...
Kodak moment...
It was an inferno of taxi cars driving up and down and people running back and forth...
This is the old main street...
It reminds me of italy here...
...and this town was used as model for the best anime movie ever..."spirited away" (based on imdb ranking i think)...
Many slized ice stands...
And some peanut in dark sugar cubes...
And other things you didnt knew you needed...
Anothe coffee store...
The guys wanted stinky tofu...
Every now and then one could see the view...
Funny soap store...
Slow spring roll stand...
This guy didnt want to recommend any of his products...or maybe its my chinese that sux when it comes to the word "recommend" (Tuidian)...
Asian style red balls...
My friends wanted some beer...
We got this balcony...it seemed like a coffee store...
But the view was nice...
Omg...halloween decoration...
And keelung island...the island i spent 1 day trying to get to...without result :S
The waiter spilled half our beer on the table....
...but greedy resturant owner, gave us the rest of it in glasses, pretending that nothing happened...and later on charged us full price...the consequence of tourist industry...
Alfred was enjoying his snus...(tobacco), which he brought from sweden...
Pretty interesting.....he use to buy it online in taiwan to save money...
The rest of the team also tried... 
Keelung by night...
And fishing boats with strong lights to attract squid or something...
More beer...
And Monopoly deal...
Alfreds favorite game...
It was a pretty fun game...
Easy to play...
And based on taiwanese sites... 
The owner didnt want to be on picture...maybe since he charged us over price and cheated us...
They had funny spelling on the places...
I might buy one of these games...
We continued on the small path through juifen...
Many people taking pics...
They even had this "selfie stick"...seems to be the new thing...
We tried to catch a cab..but it was hard.. .
After some negotiation we found some guy, he had nice music in the cab...
Then we went back to taipei...
Many people to mingle with...
Omg...the Q-square elevators had their own life...
The "le blé d´or" had hawaii theme again...
Pretty expensve,...1 beer and 1 pizza was more expensive as an "all you can eat and drink" price...
They als told us that we cant play monopoly there...strange...
Thats ok...we didnt understand chinese for a while...
It use to be my favorite beer after all...

A night in Banqiao

I visited a local restaurant last night...
"Dcuk bar"...
There I tried the Taipei Brewery Weissbier...
We got some local food...but were also treated amny dishes from the owner who like to see foreigners at his place...
We also tried some South african cream...pretty nice!

Sundays adventures...

I joined my neighbour to Le blé d´or in banqiao this morning...
Some strange performance at Mega city...
My friend ordered a juice...it was super small...
But as usual there were many people in here...
I returned some bottles, that I bought from them...so I got a beer for free...
Later we headed to the square in banqiao...to see the christmas deciration...(since halloween is over, the new commercial holiday is starting)...
Police and military....nice...
And police with their horses...i have never seen that before here in taiwan...
We later headed to a belgian beer bar that i never been to before...
They had hoegarden, but not Rose flavour...
They also had a funny menu...
I asked for th least popular beer...they said it was very sour...so i ordered it...
I also tried a "Satan"...
A belgian guy who lives in south of taiwan is importing these things...
They also played Elvis presley with Suspisious minds...so epic...
The beer with a hawaii pizza was super nice...
They also made it colder by having this water smog...
Later I cycled in the "swedish summer:ish weaether" to my friend...and had a Kopparbergs cider...
And enjoying the view...while it lasts...they build new buildings here every year...2 years ago we could see TAipei 101 from here...but now: no...
Also epic gardens on the roof tops...reminds me of Ximen...
And some nice balcony...
Lter we went to Costco...
Business is doing good...
Omg, they offer red bean ice...interesting...
We ordered some salad...
With wine... (this did johan eat today)...
Later i had a swedish beer...

A thursday in November...

I havnt been to Flavors since 2008/2009...
But yesterday I went there again...
They have interesting paintings...
I got the opportunities to try nice food...
It was all from sweden...
Things I know is swedish but havnt tried there either...
And ended with a super nice apple dessert...
It is also possible to see taipei 101 from here...
We also passed by many other places in the area...like this "hidden" bar...not sure about the name...but I would never find it if not anyone told me it was there...
Next stop was Whinos...it is in DaAn, where my friend use to live...
It is a cheese and wine place...
Just like in FE21 department store they keep the wine in some glass room....
And a nice bar...
Joel was not happy with his merlot wine...so he asked for something stronger...
And a nice cheese plate...I almost felt like home...
Omg, bire with honey...
And some brittish cheese I havnt heard of...
They also carved ice cubes...for some reason...
It was not a cheap place...
Then we mingled with the owner...it was fun...
Joel knew her a little since he use to live here...
And he had his new Cowboy shirt...super cute...
I have been in this area before...
But then I visited this place...without beeing able to enter...since it is a popular place...(but then it was a friday)...
They have plenty of drinks...but no drink list...the bartender told me that he knew the drinks anyway...I just needed to ask...
He kind of miss understood me...but it ended up that me and joel got the same beer...
And I got a pinacoloada...which was pretty nice...
Joel also made a promise...to buy some things before he dies...I will check before he dies if he kept his promise...
Next place was On tap...
They had "open mic" evening...many funny guys were talking...however...we were pretty late...and many missed the best ones...
I tried a new beer...
Joel knew many people here...
This indian guy was pretty funny...
And this south african guy as well...most of them have lived here for ten years or more...
We also met a guy from norway...thats amazing...he is the second norweigan guy i meet here...ever...
Next stop...brass monkey...the ppl at the entrace acted like ass holes...
Not service minded...
Many brats were here...
My norweigan friend was professional, he just entered withou any paying...
I met ppl who worked in my industry...its always nice to make contact...I need a ner business card...
Aso this brittish guy was interesting...he tried to sell insurance in taiwan...
Joel is also brittish, it was a perfect match...
We also made him buy Kopparbers cider...to support sweden...
My norweigan friend seemed to enjoy the place...he got alot of attention from the girls...
And the staff got alot of tip...
But tomorrow is another day with new adventures...2013 continues...

Taipei hangout...on a saturday night...

I went to many places yesterday night...

Transporting by scooter...ina dense city...

I fear i might get lung cancer, sharing city with millions of otherscooter drivers...

The first destination was a burger bar near taipei 101...

I see that my friend Joel has been here selling swwedish stuff...

Both kopparbergs and Rekorderlig Cider...

They did not have any big burgers at this place...

I had a rekorderilig (it was as expensive as the burger)...

And a pineapple burger...

There was a sign on Taipei 101 say ing something about the lantern festival that is right now...

The next stop was El Cielo near S.Y.S memorial hall...

I found many nice all you can eat resturants near by there...

At El Cielo I met Robin who has a farewell party...

I met many swedes that I havnt met for a long itme there...

I use to hang out with Kristoffer...though...

I had a chocolate drink...it was ok...

We also got some snax if we bought drinks for more than 1000nt...

After this place a visit to Barhi was made again...

Its the Yilan beer bar in Beitou that also has pilsner...

Vincent the owner is a very nice guy...

They didnt have the pilsner yesterday, so I had a liter of wheat beer...

And if you "check in" on facebook at this place u get free french fries...

I also had a hawaii pizza, but it more looked like a pie...

I also passed by shilin night market where they had many lanterns...

And finally I dropped by Ximen, where I took an "all you can drink" offer for 500nt...but the drinks were not that good...

The bars here are very tight...and each of them plays their own music...on this pic  speakers are shown (one to the left and one to the right) playing different music...
I planned to "do the list"...but the drinks were not that good...so I skipped some drinks...
Later on I went to carrefour to buy some things to do milkshake...february 2013 continues...

A visit to Cosbys Taipei

I went to see a friend at Ximen last night...

We met at Cosbys Taipei...my favorite burger bar...

Maybe first time I had a single burger...

Millers is a nice beer...

 We also headed to the Bear Bar...

Later on I passed by Carrefour, and I saw Ruishui milk, the farm i visited on the east coast...not sure if the milk is from that farm though...
Omg, Kiwis are 89nt for 10 peices...thats more expensive than in Taidong...strange since Taidong is much further away...and more isolated...(i assume the kiwis are not local)...

A night in taipei...

I spent yesterday night in Taipei...
It was at Zhongxiao Xinsheng, a place called Tacoloco, that recently opened...
And we were invited by a woman from Mexico...so alot of latinos and spanish speaking people were there...
She brought tequile...
And we got served japanese, food...
And taiwanese-ish food...
And chicken...
And mexican food...
Some cool, old guy from spain also paid a visit...
And people from the nightclub Micasa, including the bartender girls, bartender...
We got a super nice muchroom stew...
And some chicken with mashed potato...
The mexican womans daughter was there..she was fluent in many languages...
And the -mexican restaurant owner from Zhongli came, he recognized me...so exclusive...
I thought this was water, but I was served tequila...
Many people was there...even though we were early...
It was alsocheap since all drinks were for free...
We later headed to the beer factory, but there my classmates and friends told me they just closed...
They found my look.alike there to...so funny...
So we went to Brass moneky where they had rugby night...
I asked for apizza with tomato and cheese, but got only cheese...hmm...
Then we went to revolver...its a nice club...
I met my old friend Long there, a drunk tai guy, who use to collect bottles aoutside the 7-11 near luxy...
They also had dogs walking around inside...
 
My classmate ordered many beers...many foreigners were here...
And some were on the dance floor...
But the music was crappy, so pablo put on his own house music...and started to dance...
...and so did I...
it was fun...
he went kind of drunk...
outside people were selling LPs...
Alot of taiwanese people joined up when they were about to close...
We continued to underground on Xida road, but it was closed, instead we mingleded with Johnny from the border of england and scotland...he was taking a walk with his dog, crossing the whole city...
I found this nice helmet...
On the way back in the bus, I also mnet Kris an american english teacher who treated me beer...he likes to travel, and earns to much money...as english teachers do in taiwan...i will show him some beer bar in hsinchu some day...

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