This morning we are heading over to the Miniatures Museum of Taiwan.

That's our first stop, and then from there we are hopefully going to have a hotpot lunch

and then go to a few other places.

So stay tuned for today's vlog from Taipei.

We have arrived, it looks like there's not a huge sign for it, but it's this banner, and it's housed in this big skyrise building, and it said to go to the basement floor 1.

We got our tickets for 180 TWD

and now we are just walking around the Taiwan Miniatures Museum

So far I have seen mostly European and Victorian style houses and cottages and businesses

all models of them scaled down

but what's really impressive is the detail you can look inside of the houses and inside the living room

and see even the furniture and the wallpaper

and people are very very well detailed

We didn't spend too long at the museum because I am ready for lunch

but the museum was alright, kind of small

but many good realistic, very realistic and very detailed models

mostly European architecture and some famous buildings as well

That is the restaurant we are going right there across the street

and I believe in English it's called Old Sichuan

and so it's going to be a Sichuan-styled hotpot which I am looking forward to

Thank you

This is a really classy restaurant. I love the atmosphere here

We just ordered a couple of different plates

You order by the plates of meat, we also ordered some mixed vegetables

and then they bring you a pot of soup

they gave us this appetiser which they said is included

and it said green bean noodles, I think mung bean maybe, green mung beans

and then topped with peanuts and sichuan chillies and oil

This looks amazing

Oh they're slippery

Those noodles are like slippery, very slippery

but that is extremely good, that is

it's very sour

and then it has a beautiful dried chilli flavor to it

we actually don't taste that oil really

but it does has a nutty kind of sesame flavor as well

we got our soup, we have divided between two different soups

this one is the sichuan spicy soup

and then over here, I am not sure but kinda milky creamy looking soup

maybe a bone broth

and they have brought over our plates of beef and pork which they set on a side table

the beef is a little bit fatty, I didn't know exactly what I was ordering

but it's a little too fatty for me probably

but the pork over here looks very good, that one is pork shoulder

but I am sure it's all going to taste amazing once dipped in that soup

okay, this is, this looks like bacon

but this is beef

I gotta go into that spicy broth first

to test that out

roll that around

and I did not want to cook it too much

going straight into my mouth from the pot

oh man...oh that's delicious

oh that's insane

I can feel those numbing sichuan peppercorns immediately

upon eating that piece of beef

It just kinda make my tongue tingle a little bit

and that broth, it tasted very earthy

and very just ???

and that flavor

Oh, I can ya, I can feel the peppercorn

that is absolutely beautiful

oh man that's good. the meat is so good quality,

and so thin

that I did not even taste the fat

it just kind of melted

so that was awesome

okay, gotta taste this broth now

that meat is so good

okay, that broth is definitely more mild

and almost taste kind of milky

okay, i am going to try the pork now

In go into this broth

Alright, I think that's cooked

The beef meat is a little more tender, because of all that fat

but that broth is just

that blew in my mind that how flavorful it is

woah, that is so hot

and that is quite a beautiful presentation

and I will dip it in here, I am not sure how long

and this sauce, there were a couple of different ingredients in there

and then the lady here told me to add

some of the spicy broth into the sauce

to make the sauce

I think it's like a,

oh my piece of fish fell apart

My entire mouth is just buzzing

and my tongue is just tingling, I can barely feel it

and it is just sensational.

I am loving every single bite of this

Ying and I were eating in there for two hours

and that was by all means the best hotpot experience meal that I've ever had in my life

That was just mind-blowingly good

My mouth is still numb, and that was just insanely flavorful

and after, when we were done with our meal

Our waiter was really nice and he was cleaning up everything

and he asked us, and he only spoke Chinese

so I had no idea what he was saying, but

I just smiled and I just smiled in agreement

and in happiness of that meal and that food

and I don't know exactly what I said

but the next thing he came back

with a big bag of that soup

broth from our hotpot

so he packaged it to go, and so

and so we have, Ying and I were laughing pretty hard

because we didn't, we have no idea what we did

we're just, we're just gleefully smiling

with happiness from how delicious that meal was

but I guess we got our soup to go

and so I have a big bag full of our

both of the soup broths

I have no idea what we're going to do with these soup broths

but, maybe I will put it in my bath

and bathe in that, that pepper oil soup

Couple of days ago we tried to go to the Confucius Temple

actually that was last week

on Monday but it was closed, so I think we're

going to head there now since we're not too far

We arrived to Yuanshan station

which is little walk from the Confucius Temple

and we're walking there now

This temple is very peaceful today

there are only a couple of people here that I can see

and I'm going to check out the inside now

That was good to see, and definitely

when you come here you should combine

the Confucius Temple with visiting the Baoan Temple

which is just across the street

as long as you don't come on a Monday

when this temple is closed

and now we're going to head to the Fine Arts Museum

which is a little bit of a walk from here

I've arrived to the Taipei Fine Arts Museum

and the outside structure is pretty cool

made of glass and really boxy shape

but I know that it's a contemporary fine arts museum

and especially focusing on artists from Taiwan, local artists

The museum was pretty good, especially if you're interested

in contemporary modern Taiwan art

and some very interesting exhibits on display as well

I'm still feeling the delicious effects of that lunch

and all I wanna do is go back to our hotel and relax

but we are actually going to go back to our hotel now

because I need some work that I need to get done

so I am going to end the vlog here in the mid afternoon

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