Let's see, how this town and county looks like by our own eyes. For fact lovers, Changhua town's:
- Area is : 65.69 km²
- Population: 230,000 people
Geographical location: Changhua City is located
in the central part of the island. It is bordered on the northeast by
Dadu Stream to Dadu Township and Wurih Township in Taichung County. It
abuts upon Huatan Township and Sioushuei Township on the south, Fenyuan
Township on the east and Hemei Township and Fusing Township on the
west.
Well, the picture is worth a hundred of words, and here it's a graphically shaded in red, on a Taiwan map:
Local news says, that this city and surrounding area are the one with highest crime percentage in a country.
I took a pretty nice birds eye view of Changhua from Great Buddha scenery:
The first you might see entering the town is naturally the train station:
Let's go there and look around, I am giving you a insight like this:
Now, we are ready to move in a town!
Grab a map with you, the one, in Lonely Planet guide will be OK, and not so far away from train station you are going to find an interesting district with narrow streets, where most of famous to this county restaurants are located. The first, what every guide and tourist review will tell you - try a Cat Mouse noodle soup. No, it doesn't means that they eat a cat's here along with noodles - it's was because the
owner's nickname pronounced similar to "Cat Mouse" in Taiwanese. "Cat
Mouse" noodle looks no different from other noodles in Taiwan, but you
definitely will love it after tasting. The soup is fresh and not oily,
together with mushroom balls, meat balls and shrimp balls and you will
find its difference. "Cat Mouse Noodle" now has been marked one of the
three treasures in Changhua.You must try it, if you are in a town. It is easy to get lost and not find this place, since there is no any english sign on it, and we are here to help you. Here is how it looks like:
Address: 126 Chang Ann street, Changua county.
TEL: 7268376
Open hour: 11:00am to 8:00pm
Left side of the restaurant are very bright sign of clothes shop, you you won't miss it.
We are going in, to see what they offer. Let's go with us!
Restaurant is really quite a busy place as you can see, and the taste of noodles is really good. Another suggestion there - try a eggs - they also taste very good in this place.
Once you are in they are going to handle you a menu:
First two options on the top are the ones you need, second one have more ingredients added. Finally, after we had made an order, this is how the famous Cat Mouse Noodles looked like:
Right side of this famous place are something what called Jesus is the lord church, which as it appears has the service hours, well, I always knew, that all has it's own service hours, also the Jesus has the office hours.
Now, turning your head right you will see the street heading you to the more restaurants in the area. Quick glance tell us that district s really quite old and much houses are not renovated for long time since now.
Left side has a small "factory" which makes another - very popular food in the area - BaoAn.
From here - we are ready to move to another famous place Changhua - Confucius Temple, which will be featured in separate post in my blog. It deserves it.
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