There was nothing on the schedule today, so we had a “free day”.
In the morning, we did some shopping back at the Breeze Center. There was no line at Mister Donut, so we picked up some of those awe-inspiring donuts that lead to lone lines just waiting around for their delicate taste.
They kinda suck. We had about 6 kinds and even Michelle and Irene didn’t like them.
The weather was still bright and clear, finally a perfect evening to go to the night market without the kids. Irene wants to eat from one end of the market to the other.
She didn’t really, but she did have stinky tofu and misc. duck bits. The picture you see up top is the duck bits vendor… I’ll call them “The No Part Goes to Waste Shop” because (and I know it is difficult to see in the picture) those little plastic trays contain all the parts of a duck that you’d expect to be thrown in the garbage. Heads, tongues, necks, internal bits of an unidentified nature, feet – it’s all there. The only think you won’t find are legs, thighs or breasts… at least, I couldn’t identify them clearly. The only things reasonably “normal” on the cart were wings.
I had another example of the vendor’s food that I’m not describing until I develop my own recipe and make a fortune. We had this one slightly custom-made and, as I’d hoped, it was even better than what they normally sell. I’m looking forward to experimenting with this when I get home!
The night market is along the Danshui MRT line, and they run until midnight. It was still early enough that we decided to head home, pick up one or more kids (depending on if Michelle wanted to go with us of stay with grandma) and return to Danshui to take a boat across to the wharf on the other side of the river’s mouth.
Michelle didn’t want to come and the boats stopped running a few minutes before we arrived, but it was still a lively evening and there was a foreign (American) street performer playing with fire. He wasn’t bad, and he obviously collected a lot of money at the end of his performance. Watching his take, I’d say he got about $NT3000 ($US90) for 5 minutes prancing around with fire.
Considering that MOS Burger apparently pays well and only pays about $US2.70 an hour, he was making good money. I wonder if he was working legally? I’ve heard of foreigner performers getting deported for such things.