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.

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

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