Your introduction to these places are more detailed than a local can do. How did you do the homework to give such a good details for every place you have been? Unbelievable and way to go!
Thank you so much! I'm not sure anyone could say anything nicer than this to us. We work hard to provide more background to the places we visit, when we can. Thank you for noticing! I'm pinning your comment; it means so much. 😊😊
The reason there were so many people was because April 1 - 5 was a long weekend in Taiwan. April 4 was a public holiday: Children’s Day. April 5 was Tomb Sweeping Day, also a public holiday. Traditionally, most Taiwanese would spend the day to clean their family burial sites, typically in the mountains where weeds tend to grow around the graveyards, and pay respect to their ancestors. This is also a day of family reunion for those who work in different parts of the country from their hometowns, e.g. a person who work in Taipei returning to Tainan to join his/her family.
@@TalesFromOurPocket The Tienhou Temple in Tainan is a popular attraction to tourists and local worshippers, so most of the booths and street vendors are probably permanently set up there. If you haven’t noticed, many night markets, or street vendors, in Taiwan tend to congregate around temples because that’s where the locals, and tourists like you, would come and spend money. It’s also a good place to do business because most vendors believe the gods/goddesses in the temple nearby would chase evils and bad luck away. 😅
"That's not what I expected but I liked it" should be your channel slogan 😂 Seriously though in a world where so many people are afraid of anything unexpected, I love your openness and enthusiasm to not only try but also promote new things. (Also please note I've left 3 comments for the algorithm because we need to get you to 100k by the end of the year, your content is way too good to just be at 16k!)
Every time we say "that's not what I expected" , we mean it. You might think that by now, we'd expect to be surprised instead, but that's clearly not the case, hahaha. 😂😂 (And gosh, thank you so very much for multiple comments and the compliment! 😊😊)
Just discovered your Taiwan videos. They’re awesome! I’m Taiwanese American and visit Taiwan about every other year to visit family. Tainan is my hometown. My family’s lived there for over four generations now. Because of its history as Taiwan’s first capital, there are lots of historical sites in the city, which is probably one of the reasons why the transportation system is so bad. Any kind of construction to expand the roads or construct a subway system will inevitably hit a snag because of the historical sites. Even a renovation of a local elementary school a few years ago turned into an archeological dig and unearthed some artifacts from hundreds of years ago! Tainan also has a rich culinary tradition, with particularly famous 小吃, literally translated as “small eats.” They’re basically little snack size dishes. Some of my favorites are danzai noodles, fried shrimp rolls, sweet tofu pudding, and migao (a glutinous rice bowl). If you have a chance to visit Tainan again, I highly recommend trying some of them and visiting some of the other historical sites. I particularly love the charm of the Hiyashi Department Store, and it’s beautiful when lit up at night.
Oh my gosh, I can't imagine the difficulty of construction in an area so steeped in history! We don't have many problems like that in the US, right? 😂 I'm envious to return so often - that's amazing! The food there is so very good and diverse. 😍
The fried doughy is made by sweet pataton with tapioca strach, and the stuffing may use peanut powder and Demerara Sugar. when you fry the dough, the stuffing is melting into caramel liked syrup.
Welcome to my hometown, Tainan City. Your video is absolutely amazing. Also, the oldest department store, Hayashi is in Tainan, too. At night, Hayashi looks quite dazzling... It is definitely worth a visit.
Just fyi, the gooey part of the oyster omelet is made out of potato starch and the peanut snack with cilantro is made out of malt, which is why it is so pliable. Great content!
Thanks for visiting Tainan, if possible recommend you could come again but in weekdays and stay more longer (like 3 or 4 days or more) , then you could see a truly Tainan which is more slowly and easily than in busy holiday.
Used to rep for a company in Tainan. Definitely great food. The first capital of Taiwan. Your videos are always fun, informative, enjoyable, and relaxing. The old street at Anping is always busy. The oyster omelette coating is made from tapioca powder, the same basic ingredient for boba.
The Oyster Omelet or 蚵仔煎 is not made using rice paper/flour, it uses sweet potato starch. An ingredient often used in a lot of dishes in Taiwan esp. in fried food where it replaces or supplements the flour used in making the batter for the crispy coating.
Tainan City is amazing, In the previous era of Kuomintang autocracy, it was not easy for the mayor candidate of the Kuomintang to be elected as the mayor of Tainan. Even if he was elected, he would be kicked out of power after one term and could not be re-elected. This is unique in all counties and cities in Taiwan. Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, the CEOs of NVIDIA and AMD, the world's leading chip factories, are all from Tainan.
Yes you got it right in the video when you suspect that you guys are in midst of a holiday of some sort. April 1st to April 5th is a long holiday where Taiwan celebrate Children's Day 兒童節 on the 4th, and Qingming Festival 清明節 (Tomb Sweeping Day) on the 5th. This year the gov't decided to link them up into a 5 day long holiday partially to let people have more days to choose to go back home to do the Tomb sweeping (spread it out to avoid big traffic jams) and probably just let people have a long period of time off to enjoy with their families and spur a little bit of local tourism as well.
The fried doughy thing (9:19) looks to me like what locals call “sweet potato puff”: It’s peanut and sugar inside a fried sweet potato+sweet potato flour dough.
That oyster omelette is called "o-a jian" (pronounced phonetically, like oh-ah-jian) and it's one of the most iconic traditional Taiwanese dishes. Also happens to be my all-time favorite food from Taiwan, I'm so glad you tried it! If you like the sweet chili sauce, you can buy it in a jar even in the States, it's called "tianlajiang".
They did have a larger size but we ate so many things, we wanted to be sure we had room! 😂 (Then the coffin toast was so good, we wished we had ordered the larger one, hahaha)
Taiwanese oyster omelets usually are regarded poorly by expats and tourists. I'm glad you guys enjoyed it. Tainan is my favorite cities in Taiwan. If it had better public transportation, it would be even more enjoyable. Unfortunately the original Dutch Fort Zeelandia (present day Anping) was bombarded by the British in 1868 during the Camphor War, so most of the structures are lost.
Tainan was great, and so we're those oyster omelets! You're right about the public transit though. We waited for a bus for 45 minutes at the end of the day (the scheduled ones didn't arrive). Fortunately some kind of free bus came by and went close enough to our hotel that we took it!
Just for your historical info, that Oyster Omlet dish you tried was first originated from the French navy led by Captain Cooper who once occupied Keelong port city in northern Taiwan until a naval war erupted with the Qing Dynasty navy around that area, and French soldiers had no time to cook a meal during that battle but to make quick crepe mixed with oysters taken from nearby LOCALS, which was later learnt by the Keelong natives and the recipe changed overtime to become the omlet you eat today in Taiwan.😂
I had oyster pancake and stinky tofu (semi-forced by my parents) when I visited Taiwan a month ago. And ... despite growing up in Taiwan, I found they were not as attractive as I imagined any more haha. So I "politely" pushed the dishes back to my parent side of table :)
@@TalesFromOurPocket (no ...) I found the texture of the pancake was a bit too soft. Sort of like a ... hardened baby food LOL. I will try the fried Oyster thing though. At least it is crunchy :)
Taiwan really likes cilantro + peanut for snacks/desserts. If you haven't had one yet, look out for the thing with ice cream, cilantro and shaved peanut brittle, wrapped up in a crepe like a burrito. I don't know if it has a real name, in Chinese we just call it a "peanut ice cream roll". I had it in Jiufen but I know it's big in Yilan and probably the night markets too.
How do you make Chinese subtitles? Is it automatically translated by the TH-cam system? The Chinese subtitles are translated very accurately. We like your videos very much.🎉 Welcome to Taiwan.😊
Hi, I first manually do the subtitles in English. Then I use an auto-translator to change them to about 8 other languages. I've been wondering whether the Chinese ones are accurate. I'm happy to hear they are! 😁😁
You traveled like locals! You took the bus to those attractions. How did you achieve it? It was difficult when you guys didn't know Mandarin/Chinese characters.
Thank you! Google Maps really helped us get around. Sometimes we would stare at the unfamiliar Chinese letters, comparing them between Google Maps and what we see in front of us (like a restaurant) and a nice local would help us. 😂😂🍴
Fort Zeelandia built by the Dutch is in ruins. The most of the buildings except the tower on the top of the ruins were built by the Japanese during Japanese era.
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Your introduction to these places are more detailed than a local can do. How did you do the homework to give such a good details for every place you have been? Unbelievable and way to go!
Thank you so much! I'm not sure anyone could say anything nicer than this to us. We work hard to provide more background to the places we visit, when we can. Thank you for noticing!
I'm pinning your comment; it means so much. 😊😊
Agree 100000%
By the way, what’s up with the number of “oh” “Hmn…” lol. Food must be that goood ❤️😍😍😍
@@Gordaventure the food really IS that good. Our reactions are exactly as you see on camera. 😊😊
外國人所拍攝的台灣影片之中，你們真的很不一樣；身為台灣人，我覺得看你們的影片是一大享受，非常棒！
台灣的芒果(mango)與鳳梨(pineapple)，是全世界最好吃的！
Thank you! 🎉🎉
This is one of the excellent channels that I have ever seen, introducing Taiwan so profoundly and pleasingly.
Thank you very much!! 🤗🎉🇹🇼
安平著名的樹屋和安平堡超棒的！👍👍🏻👍
節目越做越好了
加油喔💪💪💪
謝謝你！！🤗🇹🇼🎉
The reason there were so many people was because April 1 - 5 was a long weekend in Taiwan.
April 4 was a public holiday: Children’s Day.
April 5 was Tomb Sweeping Day, also a public holiday. Traditionally, most Taiwanese would spend the day to clean their family burial sites, typically in the mountains where weeds tend to grow around the graveyards, and pay respect to their ancestors. This is also a day of family reunion for those who work in different parts of the country from their hometowns, e.g. a person who work in Taipei returning to Tainan to join his/her family.
Ahhhh, thanks! So it was probably busy all 4 days? And that's why there were (probably) extra booths and a street closed? That makes sense. Thanks!
@@TalesFromOurPocket The Tienhou Temple in Tainan is a popular attraction to tourists and local worshippers, so most of the booths and street vendors are probably permanently set up there.
If you haven’t noticed, many night markets, or street vendors, in Taiwan tend to congregate around temples because that’s where the locals, and tourists like you, would come and spend money. It’s also a good place to do business because most vendors believe the gods/goddesses in the temple nearby would chase evils and bad luck away. 😅
很高興看到您們來安平，希望您們喜歡🙏
您們來訪的期間是春假（清明掃墓節+兒童節連續假期）孩子們都放假，所以大街上人山人海😊；事實上，只要是連續假期我會選擇待在家裡，避開人潮～因為，我就住在安平運河邊，兩眼所及，就是向安平移動的車陣😂
😂 😂
非常棒的影片內容風格，無論在攝影手法，旁白，背景介紹及配樂，都令人愉快欣賞！
Oh gosh, thank you so much!! 😊🤗🤗
"That's not what I expected but I liked it" should be your channel slogan 😂 Seriously though in a world where so many people are afraid of anything unexpected, I love your openness and enthusiasm to not only try but also promote new things.
(Also please note I've left 3 comments for the algorithm because we need to get you to 100k by the end of the year, your content is way too good to just be at 16k!)
Every time we say "that's not what I expected" , we mean it. You might think that by now, we'd expect to be surprised instead, but that's clearly not the case, hahaha. 😂😂 (And gosh, thank you so very much for multiple comments and the compliment! 😊😊)
Just discovered your Taiwan videos. They’re awesome! I’m Taiwanese American and visit Taiwan about every other year to visit family.
Tainan is my hometown. My family’s lived there for over four generations now. Because of its history as Taiwan’s first capital, there are lots of historical sites in the city, which is probably one of the reasons why the transportation system is so bad. Any kind of construction to expand the roads or construct a subway system will inevitably hit a snag because of the historical sites. Even a renovation of a local elementary school a few years ago turned into an archeological dig and unearthed some artifacts from hundreds of years ago!
Tainan also has a rich culinary tradition, with particularly famous 小吃, literally translated as “small eats.” They’re basically little snack size dishes. Some of my favorites are danzai noodles, fried shrimp rolls, sweet tofu pudding, and migao (a glutinous rice bowl). If you have a chance to visit Tainan again, I highly recommend trying some of them and visiting some of the other historical sites. I particularly love the charm of the Hiyashi Department Store, and it’s beautiful when lit up at night.
Oh my gosh, I can't imagine the difficulty of construction in an area so steeped in history! We don't have many problems like that in the US, right? 😂 I'm envious to return so often - that's amazing! The food there is so very good and diverse. 😍
The fried doughy is made by sweet pataton with tapioca strach, and the stuffing may use peanut powder and Demerara Sugar.
when you fry the dough, the stuffing is melting into caramel liked syrup.
So it *was* sweet potato!? The way you describe it is so perfect to what we experienced. Thank you!
Welcome to my hometown, Tainan City. Your video is absolutely amazing. Also, the oldest department store, Hayashi is in Tainan, too. At night, Hayashi looks quite dazzling... It is definitely worth a visit.
You have a really interesting hometown! Very lucky indeed. 😊
Thank you for your adventurous spirit and taking the time to explore Taiwan, my home.
Oh gosh, thank you so much! 😊😊
Like your videos so much ❤Love from Taiwan 🇹🇼
開心又看到很棒的影片！台灣的寺廟和美食都很有特色！
下一次再來台灣玩，推薦去金門旅遊，你們一定會喜歡😘。
Just fyi, the gooey part of the oyster omelet is made out of potato starch and the peanut snack with cilantro is made out of malt, which is why it is so pliable. Great content!
Oh, potato starch! Ok, that makes sense. Thank you!!
*9:25** It looks like a Stuffed Sweet Potato(番薯碰).yummy！👍*
I can't believe it was sweet potato! Thanks!
It's a good and wonderful thing that you both introduce local food, culture, and scenic place in Taiwan. Thanks a lot.
Thank you! 🤗🤗
Thanks for visiting Tainan, if possible recommend you could come again but in weekdays and stay more longer (like 3 or 4 days or more) , then you could see a truly Tainan which is more slowly and easily than in busy holiday.
It would be fun to stroll the streets, but with fewer people. Thanks!
I will follow your YT channel all the time because I can learn English from it.
We are happy to help you learn English. 😊😊
16:00 😂 Your reaction is priceless.
Those are called “ Lover Fruit” 情人果 , made from green unrip mangos.
😁😁😁
中間黃黃的，看起來有點類似地瓜球裡面的質地
應該是蕃薯做的
Used to rep for a company in Tainan. Definitely great food. The first capital of Taiwan. Your videos are always fun, informative, enjoyable, and relaxing. The old street at Anping is always busy. The oyster omelette coating is made from tapioca powder, the same basic ingredient for boba.
The oyster omelette was so unique! We've never had anything like it. Delicious!
Have a nice day, great video!
Thanks! 😊😊
The Oyster Omelet or 蚵仔煎 is not made using rice paper/flour, it uses sweet potato starch. An ingredient often used in a lot of dishes in Taiwan esp. in fried food where it replaces or supplements the flour used in making the batter for the crispy coating.
We don't have sweet potato flour in the US (at least not that I've seen!). It was very good!
Tainan City is amazing,
In the previous era of Kuomintang autocracy, it was not easy for the mayor candidate of the Kuomintang to be elected as the mayor of Tainan. Even if he was elected, he would be kicked out of power after one term and could not be re-elected. This is unique in all counties and cities in Taiwan.
Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, the CEOs of NVIDIA and AMD, the world's leading chip factories, are all from Tainan.
Great fun as always
Thank you! 😊
清明節連假
連休5天
Good video
Thanks 😊😊
Great Job! Thank you!
17:06 ox-tongue cookies may taste bit dry but are perfect tea snacks, especially with oolong tea.
Ohhh, those would be so good with tea!
Welcome to Taiwan .I like introduction about Taiwanese food and tourist attractions.💞👍😘
Thank you! We have a lot more to come!
perfect👍
Yes you got it right in the video when you suspect that you guys are in midst of a holiday of some sort. April 1st to April 5th is a long holiday where Taiwan celebrate Children's Day 兒童節 on the 4th, and Qingming Festival 清明節 (Tomb Sweeping Day) on the 5th. This year the gov't decided to link them up into a 5 day long holiday partially to let people have more days to choose to go back home to do the Tomb sweeping (spread it out to avoid big traffic jams) and probably just let people have a long period of time off to enjoy with their families and spur a little bit of local tourism as well.
I missed to eat that oyster with eggs there really yummy! One of my favourite when I still living in there
Welcome to Tainan city
The fried doughy thing (9:19) looks to me like what locals call “sweet potato puff”: It’s peanut and sugar inside a fried sweet potato+sweet potato flour dough.
台灣的夏天真的太熱了，尤其是南部，推薦秋天或春天再進行深度旅遊！（冬天北部有東北季風，迎風面很會下雨）
That oyster omelette is called "o-a jian" (pronounced phonetically, like oh-ah-jian) and it's one of the most iconic traditional Taiwanese dishes. Also happens to be my all-time favorite food from Taiwan, I'm so glad you tried it! If you like the sweet chili sauce, you can buy it in a jar even in the States, it's called "tianlajiang".
Ohhhhh, great tip! I'll look for some in the States - thanks! Also, that oyster omelette was SO good. 😍😍
真的很喜歡看外國人認識台灣的美食，人文歷史文化古蹟，因此我訂閱囉😊
In case no one mentioned before, the coffin thingy is supposed to be with a whole section of toast. The filling was inspired by clam chowder.
They did have a larger size but we ate so many things, we wanted to be sure we had room! 😂 (Then the coffin toast was so good, we wished we had ordered the larger one, hahaha)
@@TalesFromOurPocket hahaha That downsized version is indeed more reasonable for snacking.
Taiwanese oyster omelets usually are regarded poorly by expats and tourists. I'm glad you guys enjoyed it. Tainan is my favorite cities in Taiwan. If it had better public transportation, it would be even more enjoyable. Unfortunately the original Dutch Fort Zeelandia (present day Anping) was bombarded by the British in 1868 during the Camphor War, so most of the structures are lost.
Tainan was great, and so we're those oyster omelets! You're right about the public transit though. We waited for a bus for 45 minutes at the end of the day (the scheduled ones didn't arrive). Fortunately some kind of free bus came by and went close enough to our hotel that we took it!
Like your vedio
Thanks!
Just for your historical info, that Oyster Omlet dish you tried was first originated from the French navy led by Captain Cooper who once occupied Keelong port city in northern Taiwan until a naval war erupted with the Qing Dynasty navy around that area, and French soldiers had no time to cook a meal during that battle but to make quick crepe mixed with oysters taken from nearby LOCALS, which was later learnt by the Keelong natives and the recipe changed overtime to become the omlet you eat today in Taiwan.😂
What a really cool history! Love that - thank you!!
Welcome to Tainan ❤
🎉🎉
👋👋WELCOME to Tainan!!🌞🌺
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I had oyster pancake and stinky tofu (semi-forced by my parents) when I visited Taiwan a month ago. And ... despite growing up in Taiwan, I found they were not as attractive as I imagined any more haha. So I "politely" pushed the dishes back to my parent side of table :)
@asaburu65haha yeah. But I got a taste of my lovely family time 😇😇
You didn't like the oyster pancake anymore? 😭 (The stinky tofu, we understand 🤣).
@@TalesFromOurPocket (no ...) I found the texture of the pancake was a bit too soft. Sort of like a ... hardened baby food LOL. I will try the fried Oyster thing though. At least it is crunchy :)
I understand that. I have texture issues with some foods as well (yogurt - I just can't 🫣). 😊
But Bill can eat anything. 😂😂😂
I need to hear the engagement story! Nora is jealous of the mango candy.
It really was the mangoist mango I've ever had. 😁😁
Taiwan really likes cilantro + peanut for snacks/desserts. If you haven't had one yet, look out for the thing with ice cream, cilantro and shaved peanut brittle, wrapped up in a crepe like a burrito. I don't know if it has a real name, in Chinese we just call it a "peanut ice cream roll". I had it in Jiufen but I know it's big in Yilan and probably the night markets too.
Ice cream in the center?! I'm in. 😍😍
How do you make Chinese subtitles? Is it automatically translated by the TH-cam system? The Chinese subtitles are translated very accurately. We like your videos very much.🎉 Welcome to Taiwan.😊
I think they enter English subtitles and TH-cam translates to Chinese. Machine translation from Chinese to English is not as good.
Hi, I first manually do the subtitles in English. Then I use an auto-translator to change them to about 8 other languages. I've been wondering whether the Chinese ones are accurate. I'm happy to hear they are! 😁😁
建議可以去鹿港媽祖廟，台灣歷史第二古老的媽祖廟，一府（台南），二鹿（鹿港），三艋舺（萬華），全臺第一位有清朝皇帝冊封金匾的媽祖廟在澎湖年代超過400年了
謝謝你! 😊
@@TalesFromOurPocket 還有世界上只有二個地方的玄武岩，澎湖是其中之一
April 4 is children’s day. April 5 is the tomb sweeping day. So they must have a few days off at that time.
Algorithm brought me back to you again!
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You traveled like locals! You took the bus to those attractions. How did you achieve it? It was difficult when you guys didn't know Mandarin/Chinese characters.
Thank you! Google Maps really helped us get around. Sometimes we would stare at the unfamiliar Chinese letters, comparing them between Google Maps and what we see in front of us (like a restaurant) and a nice local would help us. 😂😂🍴
@@TalesFromOurPocket Taiwanese locals are super helpful and friendly.
歡迎你們來高雄玩❤️我可以帶你們玩唷！
當然是免費的導遊
Can I sign up too hehe :) I didn't get a chance to visit Tainan this time but mostly in Kaohsiung City. Would love to revisit the charming city.
I love your🎉🎉❤
Thank you! 😊😊
Fort Zeelandia built by the Dutch is in ruins.
The most of the buildings except the tower on the top of the ruins were built by the Japanese during Japanese era.
有機會可安排（衫林溪）行程
Thanks!
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😎❤️🇹🇼‼️
🎉🇹🇼🎉🎉
四月四日是兒童節
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What does a coffin taste like?
Thankfully, we don't know. 😂😂😂
Fried sweet potatoes。
我猜25台幣的是甜粿
是蕃薯椪（地瓜、花生糖粉、糯米粉）😊
謝謝你!😁😍
Looks like you hit a Taiwanese holiday lol
Yes! We got lucky?
廟會
台南食物超難吃
😳 No, it was really good!
👍👍👍
😊😊