Kaohsiung Taiwan Travel Guide: How to take High Speed Rail, Exploring Night Market & Dome of Light

Hello, good morning. My name is Rizal. Welcome to my channel. I am today going to go to Kaohsiung by high-speed rail. So many people. Hello, two tickets to Zuoying. Kaohsiung Zuoying. What time is the train? At the moment, there will be seats until 11.29. The front seats are free. Tickets are available until 11 o'clock. 11 o'clock. Yes. Please check. 11.29 from Banqiao to Zuoying. Two tickets, 2920. Okay. 2920 in total? Yes. Okay. Please check. Today's ticket is from Banqiao to Zuoying. We will depart at 11.29. Two seats are free. Okay. Okay, we already got the ticket. And this is Banqiao to Zuoying. So our train will depart at 11.29. And currently right now is 10.21 a.m. This is the earliest train that we can get. All of the train, many train is fully booked. Okay, we have around one hour to wait for the train. So I want to have something to eat like bread maybe. Okay, I'm in front of the bread shop. Let's take a look inside. I think I'm gonna buy this. This one. It looks so delicious. It's a chocolate bread. And I'm not sure what's this. Oh, raisin bun. This one is raisin bun and chocolate bread. I bought the chocolate bread and these small cookies. Try this. Wow. Smells so good. It's super super soft. Wow. They put like a chocolate chip inside. And because they bake it, the chocolate chip melts. Super super juicy. Wow. This is brunch because I didn't get a breakfast. And later I will arrive in Kaohsiung at... Wait a moment. 1.20 p.m. That might still be okay for lunch, I guess. Check-in time is 3 p.m. 1.30 to 3 p.m. But we have one and a half hour free time to eat. I just talked about the chocolate chip, right? The chocolate chip inside, it melts. And the outer part is crispy like it's dry. When you eat it, it's soft. The bread is so soft and the chocolate chip is crunchy. And the inside, the chocolate chip melts. I know this. This looks like the Costco cookies. Okay, for this one, inside we have raisins. And this is pretty dry. The cookies itself, it's not that sweet. I guess this one is the chocolate chip. Basically, the structure of the cookies is the same with that one. But this one is sweeter. Successfully go inside. This train is so amazing because we only take an hour and 51 minutes. Amazing. Super fast. I think we're in Karate now. We are queuing now. Queuing for the train. Right now it's 11.26 and the train is arriving. It will be scheduled to depart from Panchao at 11.29. It's coming now. 11.27. The city is pretty wide. And yeah, I even can stretch my leg very well. We have a tray for eating. Yeah, if you have food, you can eat in here. Finally, we have arrived in Kaohsiung. Are we in England? Wow, welcome to Kaohsiung. Finally, we have arrived. Okay, our journey was not that long. Yes. So it doesn't feel that we traveled a very long journey. But actually, we traveled from north to south. We passed many many cities, right? We passed many many cities. Including Hsinchu. Hsinchu, Taitung, Hainan. Your school. Yes. Okay, I think we need to go out. This way is the way out. And what else? I don't know why I feel the concept is a little bit like European, like somewhere in England. Yeah, because see the clock. See the light. Okay, right now is 1.24. And the train arrived very on time at 1.20. I forgot to shoot that time. And I think we need to go out and find our lunch. Okay. I am looking at Kaohsiung MRT route. So can you show me what it is? Yeah, so I booked a hotel near Formosa Boulevard station. And right now we are in Zuoying high-speed rail train station. Yeah, from this picture, they are connected with the same line, red line. That's good. So we don't need to exchange the train later. Go, go, go. We need to find the MRT line. I don't know where. Ah, I think it's that way. Go, go, go. I had a very good impression to Kaohsiung Kaodeizhan. I mean Zuoying. I feel the vibes is so good. So many people and pretty modern. The building looks gorgeous. Impressive. This way. This one is MRT. This way going up. I'm really like a tourist. It's like the first time going to Taiwan. But actually it's just moving city to city. From Taoyuan to Kaohsiung. Even though this is the same, we're still in Taiwan. But I feel the vibes is like abroad. Because it's the first time. I think it's my first time here. At that time when I went to Kaohsiung, it was just a few hours. Yeah, just drop by and then left. Okay, I forgot. I need to top up my card. Okay, this is the top-up machine. And I would like to place my card here. Finished topping up the card. And right now we are going to enter. Xiaogang. Xiaogang, Xiaogang. So in this station, Formosa Boulevard station. It's very famous with Dome of Light. Yeah, it's in the center. And we are now in here. I think we need to go to the center. There. Dome of Light. We are coming. Eh, we're inside. I haven't take the card to go out yet. We're still inside the MRT station. And we need to go out to take the card out. So colorful. This one is carpet. Ah, if you bring kid, the kid is running. And it's gonna be safe. So this circle is full with colors, paintings, pictures. Wow. Can you believe this is in MRT station? Not in the exhibition, art exhibition. Oh, cool. So this one is the center of the station. In here we can see all of the exits. From exit 1 to exit 11. And I've just realized that from this station, it's close to two night markets, Teohe and Nanhua. First of all, we need to eat lunch. We need to go out from exit 11 to go to the hotel. Exit 11, where are you? Oh, there. Oh my god, we don't have elevator. Wow, finally we see the road. It looks like Taipei outside. The hotel. Yeah, the hotel is close to this landmark. Almost. Almost, almost. This night market is very famous. Yes. 85 Building. Can you see it? I can't see it. Can't see it? So behind me is 85 Building. The icon of Kaohsiung. The second tallest building in Taiwan. Two minutes and we will arrive in the hotel. It's not that far from the boulevard, the Formosa Boulevard station. Finally, we have arrived. So this is our hotel. Hi, excuse me. Can we check in already? Yes, already. Now? Yeah, can I? And one or two? Two people. Oh no, two please. Yes. Okay, here please. Thank you. Yes, we can start to check in. Three or three? Yes, three o'clock. Okay, so it seems like we cannot check in right now. And we're going to start to check in at 3 p.m. Currently, it's 2.30 p.m. And I put my luggage already inside. Yeah, we need to wait. Okay, this is it. See you later, thank you. Where should we sit? Here. Two chicken, right? Yes. And two white rice. Yes. 316. Yes. Okay, thank you. Ginger. No ginger. So hot. I think the herb tastes so strong. It's in between bitter and savory. And I want to know how the chicken meat is. Chicken is super soft. I want to try with rice soup. I think it's better with rice. Together with the soup and the chicken. Yeah. Hi, I'd like to check in. Okay. Okay, so this is in seventh floor. Okay. Okay, thank you. Are we going to get a room in the corner? Or? Somewhere, I don't know. Seventh floor, 1707. I thought this is 17th floor, but it's seventh floor. 17th, 17th, 17th. Oh, here. Wow. Eight, five, where is six and seven? In the corner. It's really in the corner. Okay, knock on the door. Wow, so special. This side, we have cupboard, small cupboard. And this is table. Yeah, maybe this is good to edit video in here. Does it work? And this, this area is all cupboard. Wow. Do they have hangers? Yeah, yeah, yeah, they have hangers. The light, the telephone, and slipper, hotel slipper. Yeah. You see, there's no protector. Lock. Okay, pretty cool. Wow. I think it's pretty clean. This is the, for the toilet itself. And this is to wash hands, brush the teeth. And this is the shower. We have a bathtub here. Okay, very nice. And mirror. Yeah. Okay, we have this. Oh, this can be pressed. I guess this is the last station of this LRT. Because I see the railway is stopped somewhere there. So it must be going back later. I'm thinking like, if you are sitting with a stranger, and then you're facing each other, the space of your feet is just, just, just this way. You see? If you're traveling with family, then it's good, right? You sit together. And it doesn't matter, no problem. If it's with a stranger, then it's a bit awkward. If we want to go out, we just press the button. This doesn't work. The other side, the other side. Don't exaggerate. This will not leave you. Left side. Okay, the difference between LRT and MRT is that, on the LRT, you have to press the door button by yourself. So if you want to go out, you just press the button. And then you go out. Otherwise, the door will not open. And then another thing is that, when taking LRT, the speed is not as fast as MRT. Anyway, I think this road is so beautiful in the day. You see? It's like, it's like, you know, trees are so green. And LRT coming or going there feels like, wow. Yeah, cool. I think a city having LRT, MRT, bus, all transportation, boat, airport, okay. But I mean inside the city, it's so complete and good. Okay, so we need to walk. We need to take a bus. Take a bus? Take a bus. So we need to go there. Actually, when you're walking, I mean, they don't have a, like something that close the boundary when the LRT pass by. You need to be very careful. But they have lights, like blinking lights. If the light is blinking, that means the LRT is passing. Then you're not allowed to cross. Like that. Yeah, this is the railway of the LRT. So basically, it doesn't have boundary or things that closed when the LRT pass by. It's just a red light. That's all. That's the reason why the LRT is not that fast. It needs to control the speed. If it's too fast, it's going to be dangerous. I think the concept is pretty similar with the one in Hong Kong, right? Hong Kong and also in England. Some of the transportation like this are in Europe. Do you know I feel this bus gives a little bit different vibes? Because the light is yellow. I think this is my first time to see yellow light bus. I feel so sleepy. Here. Look at that. Can you see the music center? The boat. The cruise. So I think we're in the right destination. Music center, finally I saw you by myself. Nice. Here. Look. Wow, how many lights is there? Here too. The sky is full of lights. So beautiful. The lights. Wow. See the music center? So gorgeous. Very beautiful. I remember Mayday has a concert in here in New Year at that time. Yeah, makes me curious about how does it look like in real. And finally, yeah, there you go. Happy to see this by my own. So once we arrived in here, then just walk here. Go there. Then the music center. Okay, we are now in Liuhe night market. So I'm standing in the center of the night market. Let's see what we can get in here. Let's go. Do you know in Indonesia, this is called what? Astapu. What? Astapu. I think this is my first drink today in Kaohsiung. Outside of drinking water. Okay. Pineapple cake. Oh, they sell pineapple cake. They have pineapple cake and wazi. Okay, focus, focus, focus. Later. Okay, I am on this shop. I'm going to buy chicken, I think. Wow, chicken. They cook the chicken with barbecue. The chicken is so tender. I feel they cook this chicken with barbecue until thoroughly. Like all parts of the meat from top to bottom. This one is also chicken. This one is more oily. Okay. So I am going to cross to the other side of the night market. I think this side and that side. Both are about the same area. I mean the size is差不多. Look at the structure of the... It's gonna die. Look at the structure of the wazi after it is barbecued. I can smell until here. Smells so good. It looks like the other part is crispy and a little bit burnt. While the inside is so chewy. Can't wait to eat that. We have several choices of flavors. Like peanuts, sesame, seaweed, chocolate, brown sugar, honey. Yeah, this is the price. This is chocolate flavor. Honestly, I've never seen wazi barbecued. This is honey taste. The outer part of the skin is dry and the inner part is so chewy. I think it was barbecued for about two to three minutes. It's very hot. Now I'm going to try the chocolate. Both are good. This chocolate is condensed milk. It's a condensed milk chocolate. Definitely the chocolate is sweeter. Actually, if you don't put any toppings like without chocolate, without honey, it will taste nothing. I mean it's just giving a chewy structure. So I think it's good because if the wazi itself is very sweet and then the topping is very sweet, then it's going to be too sweet. Wow, I feel here is all about shrimp, crab. Most of them are fried. These are the whole package and this they cut into pieces. This is small crabs. So this crab in Chinese is 一口蟹 which means in English is like one bite crab because we eat them a bite. Finish, a bite finish. They cut it into small pieces like this. You literally can eat all including the feet. So crispy and salty. So the first is we take the 蚵仔 and then we fry it and then we put the egg, fry them together. Then we put the vegetables on it. Ah, I think she's going to put the... The special powder. Powder mixing with water, is it? Yes. The smell is so fragrant. Oh, and then she flip it like that way to make sure the opposite is also cooked very well. I'm going to try a bite first. Oh, so sticky. So the special powder that powder makes the 蚵仔煎 is sticky. Oh, it's so savory. The taste of 蚵仔 is now mixed all over the food. They cooked the 蚵仔 very well. It's very soft and a bit chewy. The sauce is also QQ. In Taiwan language, it's QQ. This is a traditional Taiwan food. So, so good. Taiwan is usually eat this like a street food, like a snack. It's not as a main food. Most of the time, this food will be available in head market. I am currently in 全连 because I'm going to buy water. I don't have water in the hotel. So I'm gonna buy one for tonight. So thank you very much for watching this video. See you in the next episode. Bye-bye.