Tainan Revisited: Five Concubines Temple, "Hell" Temple, and Garden Night Market
Tainan is the oldest city in Taiwan and the original capitol. It has a completely different feel from Taipei in that there’s no subway system, many of the buildings are brick and look extremely old, and there are way more temples and Catholic churches. Another common feature we found on this trip was that there’s also an abundance of used book stores. We stopped in almost every one we saw and bought at least 1 book on average at each one. My favorite finds were a book of Chinese synonyms and one on common grammar constructions. But books were not the main focus of our trip- that was only a happy coincidence. I wanted to stop by the famous temples we missed last time (years ago) and go to the old street for shopping. This is a common treat in Taiwan: Wheel Cakes ( 車輪餅 ). They’re filled with various things, such as red bean paste. Believe me, it’s actually good! You can get a feel for the old type of building methods her...