Taipei 台北 Jiufen 九份老街
After Yehliu Geopark 野柳地質公園, we continue to travel up to Jiufen 九份老街.
It was an up mountain bus ride in our rented mini bus!
A little town on a mountain in Rueifang Township of Taipei County near Keelung. It is named Jiufen 九份, means 9 portions 九份 in Chinese because there used to be only 9 families living on the mountain and as transport was not convenient then, the village would request for nine portions everytime a shipment arrived from town.
Jiufen 九份老街 was a sleepy fishing village until the early 1900′s when gold was discovered in its hills. It reached its peak of mining activity during the Japanese occupation around the time of WWII and actually had captured Allied soldiers working the mines. Influenced by the Japanese, many tea houses and inns sprang up and flourished in the town until the closure of the mines in the early 70′s.
Jiufen received a new wave of attention after a few popular movies 「悲情城市」、「無言的山丘」, were filmed there in the early 1990′s. The tea houses were then restored and tourism has reinvigorated the local economy with hundreds of tourist shops, handicrafts, and artists’ studios.
Here's the scenery of the beautiful and wonderful memorable place:
Our arrival greeted by more slopes!
Mountain maps of the area!
Bird's eye view of Jiufen 九份老街!
Breath taking view of the surrounding mountain ranges!
Jiufen is very beautiful and scenic village perched on a mountain side high above a beautiful stretch of Taiwan’s east coast, known for it's up slope winding lanes, tea houses and wonderful food!
Some of the food we tried:
- The lu rou fan 滷肉飯 (pork rice) has a good mix of lean meat and fats, Yummy! better than those I tried in other stores around Taipei.
- 九份張記傳統魚丸 Jiufen traditional fish balls.
- 九份老麵店 Jiufen old noodle shop, famous for it's beef noodles.
- Ice cream with peanuts and coriander wrapped in salty crepe 花生捲冰淇淋.
- Red wine meat dumpling with glutinous rice skin - 九份金枝紅糟肉圓 Jiufen Jinzhi red meat dumpling.
- 阿蘭宇粿/草仔粿 Ah Lan Hakka Glutinous Rice Cake.
- 九份阿柑姨芋圓 Ah Gan Yee Taro Balls.
- pineapple tarts 鳳梨酥, yam pastry 芋泥酥, sun biscuits 太陽餅...
Sorry got not much photos, Yup you guessed it, was busy eating and shopping away.
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