釜山地鐵一共有4條鐵路，分別叫1,2,3,4號線，每個站除咗有站名外，亦以3位數字號碼為代號，1號線址為1字頭，如之前轉車嘅2號線沙上站，代號喺#227。跟輕電鐵大同小異，收費分兩區間，KRW1,200（1區間：距始發站不超過10公里的地方） / 1,400（2區間：距始發站超過10公里的地方），而自助售票機一樣有中文介面，買票程序清楚易明。如果好好利用地鐵，其實可以慳唔少，因為有一日票選擇，都喺KRW4,000，以小弟當時匯率，折返港紙都唔使HKD30，全日無區間無限次任搭，好抵，真喺搭3程都回本。仲有隻7日票KRW19,000，7日間不受區間限制可使用20次，但喺相信遊客會使用嘅唔多。

記得去佢個網頁睇睇，了解路線圖及收費模式固然需要，但最正喺晌「地鐵乘車觀光」一欄，有晒4條線沿線主要景點，以及點樣前往及所需轉駁嘅巴士，好有參考價值，而大部份景點主要集中晌1,2號線。

此外，釜山嘅地鐵站都幾長，內有好多出入口，全以數字劃分，指示充足。記低要去嘅地鐵站代號，以及出口數字，搵景點就輕鬆得多。題外話講講，部份地鐵站與站之間，都有地下街，都幾長幾多嘢買，天熱可過吓「冷河」，落雨又可以避避雨。

睇韓劇久唔久見啲男女主角去嘆汗蒸幕，好似幾得意，想試好耐架喇。既然搭通宵機，酒店要4:00pm先可入住，姨仔一早提議去嘆汗蒸幕，舉腳贊成啦。

釜山有唔少汗蒸幕場所，要數最齊最新應該喺海雲台新世界百貨Centum City內嘅SPA Land，場內配套極現代化及齊全。據介紹，從地下千米深引入2種天然溫泉水（碳酸氫納溫泉、氯化納溫泉），打造出22個溫泉池、13個主題汗蒸慕、桑拿、戶外足浴池等。

1/F - 三溫暖及熱療區
天然溫泉浴池、三溫暖及熱療室盡在此層。溫泉浴池一天36次全面殺菌，大可安心享用。而汗蒸慕、桑拿花款多，有芬蘭桑拿浴、黃土泥浴、羅馬室、金字塔室、木炭室、土耳其浴室、峇里室、SEV室、冰房、Body Sound房……等等。另外又有個小食亭，口渴買吓水飲都方便。

2/F - 娛樂區
此樓層有休閒室、護膚室、頭皮及足部護理、商務室、餐廳、咖啡廳。

汗蒸幕跟焗桑拿有啲似，將體汗排出嚟舒緩神經緊張，所以見當地人焗到衣衫盡濕。我就無咁犀利，個個蒸浴室都試吓，志在體驗。多種設計不同、溫度不同嘅蒸浴室，又真喺幾有趣，記得最高一個蒸浴室叫「火釜」，真喺頂唔到30秒，因為成67.6℃，見裡面幾位「阿豬媽」排排坐有講有笑，佩服！佩服！焗完一輪汗蒸幕，上二樓有個大型休息區，幾大排梳化床，有獨立電視機，較點輕音樂，瞓番陣補足少少精神，臨尾再去浸浸溫泉，真喺疲勞盡消。

收費又點計？入場費成人收KRW12,000（平日）/ KRW14,000（週末/例假日），如果想再慳啲，早場（朝早8點以前入場）或夜場（晚上8點以後入場）都非常抵，成人收收KRW7,000（平日）/ KRW9,000（週末/例假日）。提提你，入場費唔喺任玩全日，每次入場費最多可享用4小時，超時每個鐘加收KRW3,000，記緊唔想俾「罰款」就要準時還匙。講真，為番起港紙HKD90都唔使，嘆足4個鐘，又焗又浸又瞓，真喺好抵嘆囉！

嘆完汗蒸幕都成2:00pm，所以費事周圍再搵食，索性晌番新世界9/F餐廳樓層搞掂，當中有日式，有西餐，有café。作為釜山嘅第一餐，食韓國菜好似有啲理所當然咁。

因為已過咗午飯高峰時段，食客唔算太多，而室內裝潢簡約，但氣氛柔和，感覺幾舒服。餐牌內容一眼睇晒，兩頁半紙，多款石頭窩飯及熱窩。點好菜之後，韓式餐廳喺唔喺都送上一大堆前菜，有泡菜、八爪魚、蝦乾、黑豆、海帶蘿蔔絲，款款小巧精緻，味道又各有特色，小弟就最鍾意啲黑豆，煙煙韌，又甜甜哋。除前菜多之外，韓式餐廳另一特色就喺佢哋唔興供應熱茶、熱水，通常一大樽白開水放晌枱上自斟。

翻開餐牌，韓英日對照，加上圖文並茂，大概會知道所有菜式喺乜。我哋點咗2個石頭窩飯、1個豆腐窩加1個全州式牛肉飯，無加一，埋單按價加埋KRW33,500，平衡折返港紙每人HKD60+，雖然晌大百貨公司裡面，又唔算貴喎！

돌솥비빔밥 牛肉石頭窩飯 KRW8,500
韓國菜賣相一向都幾別緻，好似兩個石頭窩飯，飯面伴以5色蔬菜，甚有養生意味，又寧捨好睇。飯粒分明又熱辣辣，不過飯焦唔多，5色蔬菜有洋蔥絲、蘿蔔絲、冬菇絲、菠菜及金針菜，加埋隻生雞蛋，伴飯幾好。雖然叫牛肉石頭窩飯，但牛肉唔多，且碎濕濕，變咗大配角咁！

나지돌솥비빔밥 八爪魚石頭窩飯 KRW9,000
相比起個牛肉石頭窩飯，依個八爪魚下得多好多，味道都幾辛辣，質感柔軟有咬口。而5色蔬菜又用咗另外幾款：大豆芽、紫椰菜絲、甘筍絲、椰菜絲及生菜。味道同樣不俗！

순두부찌개 石頭豆腐窩 KRW7,000
周時都見到有依個石頭豆腐窩，印象上，基本喺韓式餐廳都見佢蹤影。豆腐嫩滑，惹味刺激，但真喺幾辣，嗜辣嘅人一定鍾意，小弟唔好辣，所以要成日灌水。

저주저통비빔밥 全州式牛肉飯（Jeonju style rice topped with wild vegetables and meat）KRW9,000
小弟見識少，食完個全州式牛肉飯，都真喺唔知特別在晌邊。跟上面個牛肉石頭窩飯晌用料9乘似，唯一明顯咪就喺無用石窩。不過，依個牛肉飯都OK嘅！

海雲臺海水浴場稱得上釜山代表性嘅沙灘，因為擁有美麗嘅海岸線，灘長足足1,800米、寬50米。每年夏天遊客絡繹不絕，韓國人都會嚟釜山避暑，到時真喺擠得水洩不通。雖然依家冬天不宜下水，但在灘上漫步，看看藍天碧海，聽聽海風輕拂，感受一下冬日暖陽，美景伴以海鷗傲翔，加上遊人稀少，很有一份讓人寧靜，令人安心嘅感覺。

除沙灘，海雲臺海岸線週邊有唔少配套，如高級飯店、娛樂設施、釜山水族館（부산아쿠아리움），鄰近又有冬柏島、五六島……等景點，真喺足以消磨大半天。

過到嚟海雲臺海水浴場，如果唔行埋去冬柏島真喺好嘥。沿沙灘行到尾，就會見到釜山威斯汀朝鮮酒店，依部份喺酒店嘅後面，有條小路可以入到冬柏島公園，當中有950m散步道直去觀景台，而途經木梯級、人魚銅像、小吊橋等等，煞是有趣。

冬柏島出名在於2005年11月召開嘅第13屆世界首腦峰會就晌島上嘅世峰樓Nurimaru APEC House（누리마루 APEC하우스）舉行，喺釜山引以為傲嘅建築，Nurimaru即喺韓文嘅Nuri（世界）、Maru（頂峰），不過小弟就對此興趣不大，反而睇日落喺我杯茶。

冬柏島本身擁有茂密嘅冬柏樹和松樹，風景本己不錯，座落晌世峰樓側嘅觀景台，位置絕佳，環回270度海景，一眼望盡五六島、廣安大橋等壯觀美景。剛好今日天氣唔錯，算得天朗氣清，夕陽西下，餘暉裊裊，睇得令人陶醉。

晌冬柏島睇完日落，外間本已經幾凍，一入黑就仲凍。加上行得攰攰哋，姨仔提議坐吓休息兼飲杯嘢，就晌出咗冬柏島，過咗釜山威斯汀朝鮮酒店，再過埋橋晌十字路口對面，見到間麵包咖啡室，一於小休取暖嘆杯啡。

小店名字叫Arbor，其中一個意思喺由藤蔓攀爬或樹枝交織而成嘅涼亭或棚架，不過依家就變咗我哋個暖窩。其實隔幾個鋪位仲見到有間星巴克，不過，倒想支持吓啲本土小店。想像當地鋪租唔喺好貴，因為鋪內不單擺麵包嘅包櫃，抑或咖啡室嗰邊嘅枱櫈，都比較鬆動唔緊迫，好有空間感；再者，內裡裝修簡約，燈光柔和，確喺叫人輕鬆自在嘅好地方。

我哋各自點咗咖啡或熱茶，再揀啲小圓包墊墊肚。熱咖啡價錢由最平嘅美式咖啡KRW3,800到摩卡、焦糖咖啡KRW4,700，而熱茶均賣KRW4,000，有伯爵茶、茉莉香片、綠茶。此外，仲有啲果汁、沙律，甚至乎brunch都有。

Cappuccino KRW4,200
意大利泡沫咖啡沖得幾香濃，泡沫幾豐厚，口感唔錯。

Cafe Mocha KRW4,700
摩卡嘅賣相就靚啲，奶泡之上唧咗啲朱古力糠漿打個旋風造型。咖啡及朱古力味都幾夠平衡，不過，天寒地凍，只要一杯燙口熱飲，已足夠暖暖心窩。

小圓包
忘了價錢，唔喺咩好特別嘅包，有點西餐廳餐包嘅影子，難得店員主動幫我哋翻熱，雖然出嚟嘅效果唔喺好熱，但感受到佢哋一番心意。

南浦洞喺釜山市中心出名嘅購物點，加埋光復洞、新昌洞，購物飲食共聚一處。每年10月嘅釜山國際電影節，就為南浦洞帶嚟多好熱鬧，因為其中為紀念電影節而建成嘅PIFF(Pusan International Film Festival)廣場，每年刻有獲獎人手掌、腳印、得獎作品名稱嘅銅盤皆會被鑲晌廣場地面上。

大街小巷兩旁大大小小商鋪，有成過百家，由低價到名牌嘅時裝店，以至珠寶、相機、音響、電子產品、民俗工藝品……等等，加上到處皆有休憩區、雕刻作品，我哋去嘅時候正正臨近聖誕，滿街掛上相關燈飾佈置、璀璨照明，好值得一逛。

再者，附近周邊仲有龍頭山公園、札嘎其市場、釜山近代歷史館、國際市場（南浦洞雜貨街）、光復洞美食街……等等，夠你行半日喇。

閒逛完南浦洞，走過嚟光復洞搵食就最好，因為光復洞美食街，街道細細，兩旁卻開咗好多食店，但似乎都喺以韓式餐廳為多。我哋無跟書搵邊間「指定」，反而兜咗一轉，發覺依間멋있는門面醒目，裡面坐得座無虛席，人氣旺場，望落去似喺本地人居多，所以投佢信心一票！

睇門口個餐牌，就知佢專賣soft tofu stew & steamed kimchi，其實佢招牌都有寫明，不過喺韓文唔識睇啫，而門外易拉架又有多款豆腐鍋（순두부）推介。店內裝修頗為時尚，一室橙色為主系，好搶眼醒目，其實啲橙色咪就喺啲豆腐鍋嘅顏色。餐牌韓英日文對照，亦只喺少部份有圖片，行咗成日，晚餐當然要食得好，最後揀咗3款豆腐鍋及一份炒豬肉。

未嚟主食，先嚟前菜已經喺指定動作，前菜主要都喺啲醃菜，晌度唔多講，絕對喺韓式風味。

게살순두부 蟹肉豆腐鍋KRW6,000
幾款豆腐鍋外觀都差唔多，都喺橙紅色，辣度有番咁上下，對唔食辣嘅我真喺一項挑戰，小弟只好慢慢食啦。蟹肉豆腐鍋顧名思義，就喺蟹肉同豆腐，蟹肉唔算好多，而豆腐已經搗碎咗，味道不俗。

햄치즈순두부 火腿芝士豆腐鍋KRW6,000
第二個豆腐鍋喺配以火腿芝士，幾得意嘅組合，火腿芝士好平常，但夾落豆腐度，韓式煮法，效果OK喎，但稍嫌味道單一，就喺辣辣辣。

굴순두부 蠔豆腐鍋KRW6,000
蠔肉大大粒，味道頗鮮，釜山果然近海食海，海鮮產品靚又平。

두루치기 炒豬肉KRW15,000
要份細嘅炒豬肉，嘩！嚟到原來喺滿滿成一大盆，真喺錯估形勢。睇落材料十分之豐富，仲要明火滾住滾住食，真喺未食見到都要除咗件面褸，食咗就邊食邊滴汗呀！味道猶如泡菜鍋，酸酸辣辣，豬肉份量唔少，好似食極都有。

공기밥白飯KRW1,000
初頭見其他人猛添白飯，仲以為唔使錢任添，原來成千銀一碗，當然講韓圜啦。雖然喺白飯一碗，但唔喺普通白米，喺有味多穀米，口感黏糯有咬口。

費用已包咗銷售稅，但無加一，食到飽飽，非常抵食。

東橫Inn晌釜山車站有兩間酒店，一間正正晌釜山站側，另一間就晌釜山站同中央洞站之間，而小弟今次就喺住晌後者「Toyoko Inn Busan Station 2 (東橫Inn釜山車站2號店)」。其實離地鐵1號線中央洞站幾近，大概只有5-10分鐘腳程，而附近內街又有很多韓式、日式食肆及Cafe，附近仲有一個40階梯文化觀光主題街，距南浦洞、龍頭山公園、札嘎其市場等景點亦不遠。

睇名你都知，佢喺由日本人管理，屬集團式經營，晌日本好多地方都有其酒店設立。客房雖然有點逼狹，但整潔，又有wifi，免費早餐，Toyoko Inn 2確喺個經濟實惠不二之選！但有啲地方要留意，根據當地【資源節約和促進循環再利用有關的法律實施令】，法律上禁止免費提供牙具、剃鬚刀等消耗用品，所以一喺晌櫃台購買，一喺就自己帶去，而房內則有沐浴乳、洗髮水、潤髮露免費供應。其他酒店或房內設施，上佢網頁就一目了然。

最正喺洗手間內有自動坐廁，全電子控制，天冷都唔怕坐「冷板櫈」。相反，最唔好喺4:00pm先可以登記入住，10:00am就要退房，確實，退房時間10:00am就未免訂得有點早，如要延遲退房需額外付費KRW11,000 / 小時，好唔划算喎！

匆匆參觀完荳蔻寺(Prasat Kravan)，我們繼續前往下個景點：班蒂喀提寺(Banteay Kdei)。如果並非極有餘暇時間的話，我絕不建議拜訪班蒂喀提寺，雖然這座小廟都十分漂亮，但整體感覺上和其他寺廟的建築模式相類似，沒有太大的特色，並不需要特地到此一遊。

入口處的人面塔，和巴揚寺的微笑佛面十分近似；不過角落位置刻有巨型的迦羅(Kala)神獸雕像。

我們從東面的入口開始進入參觀。

一走入去，立刻有種很熟悉的感覺，就如走進縮小版的寶劍寺(Preah Khan)，右方先是有座規模較小，只有一層樓高，類似‘聖劍所’的建築物；再走前多兩步，便是‘跳舞大廳’，石柱上雕刻了大量舞動曼妙的Apsara仙女以作識別。

再向前走進中央聖殿，內裡全是間隔成方方正正小房間，角落的塔樓和吳哥寺的十分相似，不過居然縛上了一圈圈的膠帶，以防石塊在冷縮熱脹下塌毀。

牆上亦裝飾了不少蒂娃妲(Deveda)女神像，有著不同的面貌，服飾和形態，十分可愛。

因為早上還有其他的參觀目標，所以我們以高速衝過班蒂喀提寺，便繼續馬不停蹄地前往下一個景點。

Among the famous snacks of the Shihlin night market(士林夜市) you can see a big blue signboard of this Hot Star Fried Chicken with a long queue of people each of them holding a plastic bag given by the shop waiting for the fried chicken which cost NT$55 a piece. I was in the queue for about 15 minutes before I could get my shares, beware of the blistering heat through the little paper packet holding in your hand.

The smell you may get even as a passer- by of the shop entrance is not a big difference from that of the KFC or McDonald’s also ubiquitously found in Taipei streets, the batter outside is crispy enough, but rather thick and fully soaked with oil, pepper are sprinkled onto each piece of chicken out of the wok, a lot of them I tell you, and sadly the tastes you would get in your mouth are those seasoning more than the real taste of chicken, the meat is tender enough and as usually those adhere with bones are even more tender. A piece of fried chicken is bigger than a man’s palm, and more than enough to feed that man, but as I’ve said most of the piece is batter rather than chicken meat.

This rice noodle eatery in Ximending tourist district has actually become my place for breakfast in the past few days. A famous eatery don’t even need opulent décor or comfortable seats as the food itself is the best enticement for new and old customer, such that holding a bowl sitting or standing here and there near the entrance has become something to marvel at for new comers to Taipei like me.

Very very special indeed, I must confess I’ve taken nothing like this as a bowl of noodle before, the soup in brown is very thick, flows slowly with rice noodles of varied thickness, and a kind of brown, thin veggie that gives you the feeling of chewing tiny shredded meat in your mouth.  A few pieces of pig intestine are used which are quite crunchy and would not be too oily.

You could help yourselves anytime with the 3 different sauces as seasoning, namely Chili, Garlie, and Vinegar, though I would suggest using none of them as the noodles with its soup taste already great enough by itself.  The rice noodles is not the chewy type you would expect with ramen, garnish with corianda when it is served, this rice noodles inclines to a bland palate,  very much my kind of thing.

There has been Din Tai Fung in Hong Kong for many years, but under the hegemony of property tycoons, for every meal you spend, a significant portion of it will become rental for the shop in tourist districts such as TsimShaTsui or Central, which has seen rentals ratcheting up in multiples in recent years.  There is Din Tai Fung in China too, but for the reason of food safety and hygiene, I can do nothing but dismiss it out of hand.

I think Din Tai Fung in Taiwan has taken a more humble way of doing business, 5 pieces of their chef d'oeuvre Pork XiaoLongBao in a take-away paper box cost just around HK$20, think of what you could have with HK$20 in a Hong Kong restaurant?  That said, it is no longer just a matter of food, poor governance of a place by the authority will actually result in deprivation of the hoi polloi in many aspects of life, good food might just be the tip of an iceberg!

Each Pork XiaoLongBao is like a piece of art work, the immaculate 18 folding on the top, the translucent wrapper through which you can see the meat and the hot soup settled down at the bottom, all so delicate and meticulously integrated.  Put one in your mouth, wow!  It’s heaven, so savoury with intense taste of fresh pork.  The meat are grinded with a fine rather than chewy texture, you haven’t lived till you have tasted that!

I’ve also tried the Steam Shrimp and Pork Dumplings with the same price as the Pork XiaoLongBao, it is also a top order thing by any standard but still nothing to compare with the Pork XiaoLongBao.  A cup of tea for every take-away customer (the queue of people waiting may put you off joining them), great services by friendly, helpful and enthusiastic waitresses.

福州世祖胡椒餅 Delicious Black Pepper Cake with Pork Filling

This Black Pepper Cake bakery shown in the photos is very famous in the Raohe street night market(饒河街夜市), so be prepared to line up patiently for a while before you can buy the pepper cake. I waited for 15 minutes that night, but just for your information I’ve also seen a branch of the same bakery near Taipei Railway Station, with much less people there.

Each pepper cake is just a little bit smaller than the size of a tennis ball, with white sesame seeds on its top, very hot out the oven when you buy it with mouthwatering fragrance of meat and pepper upon giving it a bite.  The skin of the pepper cake is quite chewy and there is great taste of flour from it.  The meat filling is savoury,  and a rather coarse texture with roughly chopped up pork meat and tendon mixing up with green onion, a wonderful blend of tastes.  

Don’t miss it when you are in Taipei, to see what this little humble pepper cake can do to your taste buds, and I guess you won’t be disappointed.

Lau Tian Lu is a shop selling pot-stewed items, pot-stewed foods are traditional Chinese cuisine with meats, tofu and veggies marinated using a sauce consists of Sichuan pepper corns and aniseeds to give a special refreshing savoury favour.  Lau Tian Lu and its pot-stewed foods are perennial favourite of all Taiwanese, and of course people coming to Taiwan too.  The shop that I’ve patronized is in the tourist Ximending district, and so unavoidably a queue is something to be expected.

I’ve tried their chicken wing, duck wing, green bean, and MiXueGao米血糕which is a black cake made of glutinous rice and duck blood. The meat they use no matter chicken or duck are invariably very fresh, so the meat is still very tender ever after prolonged steeping and stewing with the marinade, better still, the fragrance of the marinade will not drown out the fresh and distinctive tastes of the chicken and duck meat.

They are really onto something with their pot-stewed items, something you couldn’t find in Hong Kong, which more often than not are too salty rather than the refreshing taste of the ingredients in the marinade.

The spare rib with no bone at all and is more probably just a piece of pork chop, are deep fried with black pepper sprinkled on the surface, the batter is not crispy and indeed soft, no taste of pork or meat at all, even my home made Brazilian frozen pork chop with marinade tastes much better.

The noodle is the cheapest of the cheap thing, over-cooked, soft and mushy in your mouth, the soup of the noodle reeks of artificial favouring, so mind your health.

The vegetable is better, simply because it is vegetable that comes with its own taste, and so nothing or little left for criticizing.

A total waste of time and money on this guidebook favourite, after all, mind your credibility dear guidebook writers.

A very humble tiny eatery with dilapidated simple décor have stood the test of time of over 30 years near the Taipei Railway Station, is there any closely guarded secret behind? I am intrigued to unveil it.

The owner is a middle-aged down to the earth man who sells his foods at quite a bargained price, and I think it is the quality of food rather than price alone that keeps his shop crammed with local and foreign pilgrimages most of the time.

Their famous Steamed Dumplings is of a bland palate, a lot of shredded cabbages along with some meat are used as filling, the wrapper of the dumpling is very thin and lushly green of the veggies inside can thus be shown easily through the translucent wrapper, very beautifully made healthy cuisine.

The Sour and Spicy soup is another gem of the shop, healthy ingredients such as tofu, wood ear fungus and cabbages are used, drizzled with sesame oil on top to finish it up, simple but re-invigorating and delicious.

Their XiaoLongBao are very good too, although much less exquisitely made, the wrapper looks thicker and less soup at the bottom than that of the Din Tai Fung’s, the taste is however very good, and the meat they use is very fresh and juicy too. Well done man, I wish your shop another 30 years in Taipei.

Rice dumpling is a traditional Chinese food for the dragon boat festival in memorial of the venerated poet and politician Qu Yuan thousands of years ago.

This shop’s rice dumpling is so fully packed with ingredients amid the mound of sticky glutinous rice, they include a salted duck egg York, a large piece of chestnut, a few pieces of dry shrimps, a small piece of shitake mushroom, and quite a large piece of pork belly meat to give a velvety texture.  The whole dumpling is drizzled over with a rather thick brown sauce tastes like oyster favour sauce in a diluted sense.  The glutinous rice is starchy enough and chewy, but all the ingredients don’t seem to blend together very well, although individually they are all very fresh and taste great.

Another thing I’ve tried is the Fish Ball Soup with Radish, altogether 3 very big fish balls are floating on the soup among some pieces of radish.  Very disappointingly, the fish balls and the soup are artificially favoured together with pepper.   The texture of the fish balls is coarse and hard, with nothing in your mouth tastes like fish at all.

This noodle shop eventually opened on the very last day of my visit in Taipei, I’ve really struck gold!

There are quite a number of their noodles that won noodle competitions a few years ago, the Boneless Short Ribs & Beef Briskets Noodles that I ordered on my day of visit is one of them.  They tout the use of boneless short ribs from USA and beef briskets from Taiwan, which agricultural products Taiwanese people are always very proud of.

The noodle only came after quite a while longer in comparison with average waiting time for other restaurants.  The first thing that caught my attention upon the first mouthful of the soup is the greatness of its quality, never have I tasted anything on par with this one in Hong Kong, so intense delicious taste of beef but not salty.  The USA short ribs and Taiwanese beef briskets are both very great with their individual distinctive tastes, albeit the local beef briskets is a little bit coarse in texture in comparison with the USA’s.  The noodles is chewy and discernibly a fragrance of wheat out of it.

It is a thing capable of rendering all beef noodles I’ve tasted in Hong Kong sound silly.  Isn’t beef noodle one of the essence of Taiwanese cuisine? Hitherto, I believe it definitely is!

Karim's 是在德里不可不到的餐廳，而不可不吃的就是看上平平無奇，吃下卻又香又軟的印度烤餅(Naan)。這裡的Naan我們在整個印度旅程再找不到別家餐廳做出如此水平，可能就如飲食節目經常都用到的一句「愈簡單就愈難做出水準」哈哈...

Naan用一個傳統烤爐去焗製，上面的氣泡又大又均勻，所以零舍軟熟，只是吃Naan已很滿足，蘸上咖哩汁當然更惹味! 值得一提是印度人用膳後會咀嚼一些混合薄荷味香料及糖的東西來清除口腔的味道，是印度傳統的香口糖。

帯広JR INN不但離帯広JR 站近(1分鐘路程)，大堂有IPAD任客人上網，還有浴池和漫畫室給客人使用，最重要是很便宜呀！

有時候出門最怕就是睡得不安穩，這酒店最有趣的地方是客人更可以依照自己的喜好選擇不同素質的枕頭，令客人能睡得舒舒服服。

來到帯広必要吃道地的十勝豚肉飯。烤香的豚肉片加上醬汁，好吃到第二天要再叫外賣上火車吃。

北海道這麼多有名的魚市場，為何要到三角市場吃?
原因很簡單……因為行程上較方便XD…….

對我來說，食蟹是很花時間的，要慢慢坐‧慢慢品嚐。
而令我最驚喜的反而是市場裡豪華魚生飯，望見都會流口水。

身為觀光客，少不免要做些到此一遊的事，例如光顧高級壽司街裡的政壽司。價格高昂又怕吃不飽，只叫了一個魚生飯和一個特選壽司盛，再趕去下場。

德國聖誕市集也能在札幌找到噢! 德國香腸，啤酒及聖誕飾物都能在這裡買到。跟德國眾多聖誕市集一樣，聖誕前幾天就會結束了。不想飛去德國看，也可以到札幌體驗一下。

北海道的美食又怎少得湯咖哩，少許肉類及大量不同的蔬菜，加上濃濃的湯咖哩，食材雖然簡單，但好吃到見到碗底。

回來後很想在香港再重拾那種味道，尋覓了很久都不見有餐廳會賣，看來要再去北海道才能回味了。

對上一次遊首爾已經是十年前的事了，當年首爾還是叫漢城。我們的早機真的是名符其實的早機，因為這是凌晨十二時三十分的航班。第一次在機場倒數生日，他在Premium Lounge找來了一件平凡至極的蛋糕準備和我倒數，沒有燭光，卻有他的生日歌。等我把生日願望許下了，睜開眼，他竟然還為我準備了禮物，「這個旅程不是生日禮物嗎？」「沒有禮物你會很失望啊！」他真的很明白，女人，就是口不對心。

由於首爾比香港快一個小時，到達首爾是早上五時多。第一時間找個地方來個生日早餐，不過由於時間太早而機場的選擇本身不多，所以最後我們在一家烏冬店吃早點。不過這家烏冬店的價錢不太相宜，味道尚可，沒甚驚喜。用過早點，我們在地下出境大堂的銀行兌換了少量韓寰，怎料在三樓出境大堂的銀行，匯率竟然較好，幸好我們只是換了少量。第一站就要到浪漫滿屋，因此我們先到三樓寄存行李。寄存費用很合理，9000w可寄存一天。

根據手上的旅遊天書，我們先到出境大堂門口搭免費接駁巴士到貨櫃碼頭，之後再轉112號巴士到三木碼頭。一走出離境大堂，我被那一片旭日染紅的天空迷住了，不過同時我亦感受到嚴寒的氣溫。巴士很快就送我會到達貨櫃碼頭，但傳說中的112號巴士並沒有出現，我走到鐵路的出口向一名男士問路，由於語言不通，我只能指著旅遊書上三木碼頭的韓文問路，那個男人看來並不知道答案，但他卻非常熱心地帶我到鐵路的詢問處，還替我問詢問處的職員，但連職員也不太清楚，擾攘了一段時間，職員竟然用普通話跟我說那兒並沒有巴士到三木碼頭，要在機場才有。我們唯有再一次登上接駁巴士到機場，但生日的我已經第一次受到挫敗，咒罵那本該死的旅遊書。再一次重回機場，我走到客戶服務處問路，那裡的職員用流利的英語回答我，並用紙筆把要轉車的車站名稱寫下。拿著客戶服務處的字條，尋找浪漫滿屋之路正式展開！

受了教訓，我決定不再輕信旅遊書上的資料，上車前我再次問司機。下車的地方是一條無人的街道，大概是太早的緣故，我們要在這個車站轉乘另一架巴士才能到達三木碼頭。這個車站有一個很好的設備，就是一個預計巴士到站的時間，不論它的準誠度有多高，起碼我們不用在冰冷的街道上等上二十分鐘！我們到附近的便利店取取暧，時間差不多時才出來。到達三木碼頭時是九時三十一分，去信島的船剛好開走了，要再等一個小時。侯船室只有寥寥數人，都是一些上年紀的叔叔。大約十時十五分左右，有人叫我們在一些表格上填上我們的姓名後，就去登船。接載我們的船很大，而且還可以接載車輛。從地圖看距兩個島很近，大約二十分鐘的船程。由於我以為這船只會來往兩個島，一時沒有留心甚麼時候下船，怎料到我們發覺船靠岸要下船時，船隻已經駛開，向另一個目的地進發，我們萬萬想不到船隻靠岸的時間這麼短。結果船夫告訴我們等船到達下一個目的地後，就會折返到信島，不過這是一個小時後的事了。天啊！又一個小時！！！十分十分的氣餒，其實我曾經想過不把浪漫滿屋安排在行程的第一天，因為我知道尋找浪漫滿屋的路途一點也不浪漫，不希望自己的生日有挫敗的感覺，不過由於信島近仁川機場，而且一大清早出到市區地沒有好地方可去，因此最後還是由浪漫滿屋放到首個行程。

到達酒店已經是下午五時多，跟我早前的預算差不多。由於心情興奮即使一夜未眠都沒有太多的疲累，於是直往第二站Coex Mall。Coex Mall有甚麼特別？為什麼要去呢？原因是裡面有一間我十分喜愛的草莓專門店。我愛上那草莓妹已有十多年了，從前香港有幾間專門店，不過之後已經陸續結業了。由於上一次我遊韓國之時已經試過在Coex Mall的草莓專門店瘋狂購物，因此這個景點也成為我今次韓國之旅的其中一個重要目標。

Coex Mall明顯經過裝修，更富有時代感。一問之下，原來草莓店已經結業了，唉！我唯一的希望也沒有了。隨便逛了一圈，就到Coex Mall外的Bennigan’s吃生日大餐。可能你們會奇怪為什麼我會選擇吃西餐，因為今天已經吃了兩餐韓式的料理，而Bennigan’s是我在美國生活時常光顧的餐廳，我樂於懷緬當年的時光。餐廳的裝潢西化之餘又帶著韓國的味道，甫坐下，侍應端來一杯冰水一客麵包，正當我想叫住他之際，我發現原來這杯水裡插著兩枝飲管，這真是一個浪漫的設計啊！由於我們不是太餓，也預期西餐份量比較多，於是只是點了兩款食品，兩款都有非常豐厚的芝士，其中一款芝士焗蕃薯，鹹中帶甜，好味！

上次試了札幌那間有名的成吉思汗烤羊肉，今次就旭川這間大黑屋本店吧。店內有三種不同的肉，有調了味的，有羊小排的。雖然一碟份量很少，但烤香了的羊肉實在美味得要人再encore一碟！

旭川動物園的企鵝巡遊是冬季限定的。為了可愛的企鵝們，每個人都在零下15度的天氣下呆呆地等他們出閘。企鵝們肥胖的身軀，撲下撲下地向前行，一邊走還一邊跟鄰近的企鵝鬥嘴，真的很可愛噢，果然等待是值得的！

除了企鵝，還有其他可愛的動物可看。可惜我不是企鵝，零下15度的戶外真的不能待很久，留待下次再去時再看吧。

在寒冬的天氣下，最好就吃碗熱熱的拉麵暖身。

青葉拉麵的有一塊很大的叉燒，貴一點的更有3大塊鋪滿整碗拉麵。老板知道你是遊客後，拿出留言簿請你寫下食後心得。見到你寫下好吃的食評，然後老板就會很開心地笑了。

冬季限定的除了渡假村的森林食堂外，還有冬天才開的ICE Village。進入ICE Village前有真的大棵聖誕樹，雪做的滑雪梯、Shop、Bar、Restaurant，還有「冰之教堂」(可惜到逹時還在施工中)。

渡假村另一個著名的景莫過於安藤忠雄的「水之教堂」，每晚八時，職員就會準備小燈，帶領客人到「水之教堂」參觀。如想看看它的美態，請看梁靜茹的崇拜MV，我就是比它電到而去「崇拜」的XD，然後當然要親自過來看看啦！

渡假村除了滑雪外，還提供如雪上電單車、雪上香蕉船及雪上健行等等的活動，令不懂滑雪的人也能體驗雪上的樂趣。

始終是resort裡面的餐廳，雖然早餐住宿PLAN已包了，但午餐及晚餐選擇了自己張羅。
不過Resort裡面的餐廳種類不同，可供選擇的很多，但大部份都是自助餐形式，要有心理準備價錢不會太便宜。

今次想介紹的是冬季限定的森林餐廳及the Galleria 酒店頂樓既豪華餐廳。森林餐廳跟它的名字一樣，尤如在森林中進餐一樣，晚上外面還會打燈，很有氣氛呀! 而the Galleria 酒店頂樓既豪華餐廳我們選擇了吃早餐，早餐種類不單止豐富好吃，還可以居高臨下地欣賞整個resort的風景，實在太享受了！