9:30 am
Started my day with morning coffee, all set for the day!
10:30 am
Headed out to the National Museum. There are a few important art pieces inside the museum that are worth pointing out here. One of them is the jade cabbage. The piece is a jade cabbage with a small locust on the leaves, which is an imperial empress consort's dowry in the Qing dynasty. Locust's 蝗蟲pronounced "huang chong" in mandarin, it sounds similar to 王寵 huang Chong; which means King's favorite. It is a lucky piece of dowry.
1:00 pm
After browsing around the museum for 2 hours, our next mission is to try out the "National Treasures Menu" 國寶宴 at Palace Jing Hua. Each dish at the menu is base off from an antique piece at the national palace museum.
Each private dining room has a very cool Chinese name, and ours is 大千居 which remains me of one of my favorite Chinese brush painting masters - 張大千。 國寶宴 is around 4200NT per person, it is a pricy lunch. However, it is also one of a kind dining experience that you can't get else where. The service is really royalty like, and we finished our lunch at 3:00 pm - sooo much food for lunch!
3:00 pm
After the museum tour, we headed down to 中山 for ceramics pottery shopping. Taiwan is definitely the place to get quality tea leafs, tea pots and tools.
5:00pm
We have a 6:00pm dinner reservation. Since the restaurant is at the top of a mountain, it takes about an hour to cab there from our hotel. The decor, vibe, food and service are impeccable. The theme of the restaurant is longevity, therefore all the ingredients they use are source from organic farms and local farmers. Fresh ingredient makes a huge difference on taste. I am willing to give up eating expensive stuffs for the simple but fresh rice, egg and vegetables. It is totally worth a try!
9:00pm
We finished dinner, head back to our hotel with a full stomach.
11:00pm
Went to the 24 hrs eslite - back to the hotel and end of day 3
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