Jemin Travels

Covid-19 may have deterred our travel plans so the only way we can travel is by reminiscing on our past trips, and hence I decided to do a scrapbook in my free time. As we are advised to stay home during this circuit breaker period and also the photo printing shops are not opened, I could only purchase polaroid films online and print it using my Instax printer. So exactly three years ago on 23 April 2017, we set off on our first official trip overseas together to Taipei, Taiwan. Each MRT station in Taipei has a rubber stamp station, with designs representative of the area, a free souvenir that locals and tourists alike could collect. I had brought along a notebook for the trip and I had fun collecting stamps at every station, which also became an embellishment for the scrapbook.  The theme of first day is SEE FOOD diet, so our first stop after checking in is to have lunch at Taipei Fish Market where we had fresh sashimi, abalone and miso soup! For dinner, we ...

It was our last full day in Osaka and we were gonna make the most out of it! We started off our morning by pigging out at Kurumon Ichiba Market! Our first food stop! Onigiri Burger! This shop really know how to promote themselves by encouraging customers to take photo with their signage and post on social media in exchange for a drink. Also, they purposely switch off the lights and performed a "fire show" when we ordered the kobe beef burger. They also encouraged us to take a video, knowing that millennials like us love these things and would certainly Instagram it. A photo with the signature Kuromon Ichiba lantern Of course, we must surely have seafood when we come to Kuromon Ichiba market!  At our second food stop, we had abalone and torched king crab legs! The abalone is awesome, as for the king crab, I still preferred the hotpot style where the meat would be soft and fluffy. As for this torched one, it tasted a tad dry and charred... ...