Site icon Folksy Travel by Bill Smale

Exploring Hsinchu (新竹) Taiwan

What is interesting about Exploring Hsinchu or for Taiwan for that matter? I find food will always by first on my list. The people outside the giant city of Taipei are all living a little slower life and so can spend time being more courteous and polite. The city of Hsinchu was reported by some as a “food desert”. I didn’t find that at all. It is a smaller city than Tainan or Kaohsiung or even Taichung but it has some very good restaurants and plenty of them.

I need to look harder to find the Moto Guzzi here.
Duck, slghtly undercooked with rice.
Starbucks in the old library, a 1923 designed Japanese colonial building with Frank Lloyd Wright hints.
I am thinking they took some design hints from FLW’s Imperial Hotel designed 2 years earlier in Tokyo
Adapting to local tastes…..but Coffee flavor?
The big department store. On the left you see the escalator taking people up to the food court on the 4th floor .
Young people gathered outside dancing to an event
A game for parents and kids
Dim Sum for kids with cartoon characters inside other characters
Not expensive, about $6.50
What I found he 7th floor had
The city scenery in the background
Quake makes a ginseng health drink?
Tasty noodles
Another Japanese colonial style building
The train station also left from the occupation
Exit mobile version