[TW; 2026] Part 2 - Taichung | City Tour with villages, museum & night market || Wheelchair series 🧑🦽➡️
Taiwan Trip | Part 2 - Taichung
Day 2
Getting Breakfast
The streets were pretty quiet in the morning, perfect for a stroll around the district to get some local Taiwanese breakfast.
Feng Chia Huadan sandwich sushi breakfast shop 逢甲滑蛋早餐店
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Ordered my favourite breakfast item - Dan bing (蛋餅) / Taiwanese egg crepes! While waiting for them, I spotted this cute 7-11 just right across the road:
7-ELEVEN 逢廣門市 (角落小夥伴主題商店)
The whole store was so adorable:
I didn't need a drink, but I got a hot drink so that I could get a cup sleeve, how can you say no to Sumikko Gurashi!
The diy breakfast spread in the hotel room, and the dan bing was yummy, recommend!
#1 stop of City Tour - Rainbow Village
Instead of using Uber, we tried a relatively new private hire app in Taiwan called "youxi". It is always good to have some price comparison with Uber. My favourite function in youxi was the "wheelchair" option - so the drivers were aware we have a foldable wheelchair.
If you would like to try it - use my referral code: arjijv2h (or click on this link to download the app). You will receive $100 ($50 x 2) coupon!
Rainbow Village 彩虹眷村
- Ride from Fengchia to Rainbow Village: NT$265, 15 minutes journey
- Accessibility: The grounds were not exactly wheelchair friendly, but it was ok to push around the village's narrow alley.
It has been more than a decade since I visited the village but everything still looks quite similar. Which is a good sign that they were well maintained!
Everyone had fun taking photos with the colour walls - that's all that matters!
#2 stop of City Tour - Shenji New Village
Shenji New Village 審計新村
- Ride from Rainbow Village to Shenji New Village: NT$300, 17 mins
- Accessibility: The grounds were intentionally super uneven and bumpy, it is doable but not recommended as it may damage the wheels. And no wheelchair access the upper levels, even ground level stores will require lifting of the wheelchair, only able to move around the ground level market place.
A bustling local marketplace for local / home-business brands and handmade goods.
As these stores are really small businesses which produce in small qualities - items will be slightly expensive, do support if you really like them! Most of the owners were students or recent graduates.
#3 stop of City Tour - National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
We walked from Shenji New Village - it was easy and wheelchair friendly pathway. Loved this pavement towards the museum, which had squirrels!
The mini overhead bridge to the museum:
We were hungry - so lunch at the museum!
Chun Shui Tang National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Branch 春水堂 國美店
You cannot do Taichung without having a meal at Chun Shui Tang - the brand that created bubble tea!
The classic look of bubble tea - one of my favourite in Taiwan!
We ordered a few dishes to share:
This milkfish set was my favourite out of all (I miss Tainan!!):
It wasn't very expensive meal despite being a restaurant - probably within NT$1200! Would always recommend Chun Shui Tang, it seems like they tasted pretty much the same across all the outlets.
Right after lunch, we decided to hang around the museum since it was superb wheelchair friendly with lifts and slopes.
We spent a good hour around the museum, which was a good hide away from the heat!
#4 stop of City Tour - Museum Art Park Way
We walked along the Museum Art Park Way 美術園道, it was also super wheelchair friendly. But we diverted halfway to this cake shop (which I had pinned for some time):
花鳥川水果千層 美村本店
The shop was tucked away in a small alley with no visible entrance; would have walked off if the staff member didn't peek out to ask. We didn't pre-order, but lucky that there were still some Lemon Mille crepe cake for purchase. The packaging was so pretty, and the cake was very refreshing. I would recommend to get one box if you're planning to be nearby.
#5 stop of City Tour - Enroute to Park Lane
We wanted to go to Park Lane by CMP 勤美誠品綠園道 for the weekend vibe, but somehow everyone decided to walk over. Which was quite a good choice as we managed to stop by some interesting shops.
旅禾烘焙 美村旗艦店
We bought a few bake goodies from the shop and they were all very yummy. Highly recommend their donuts with fillings, it was worth every bite!
北平烤鴨
I knew we will stop over this stall because the roasted duck smelt really good from far.
We got half a duck (NT$350?) and they even stir fry the remaining bones with garlic and spring onions. The portion was just right for 4 pax and it was quite delicious (and sinful at the same time).
We finally made it to Park Lane after a long walk across the city. There was some pets event and so many cute dogs were out!
- Ride from Park Lane back to Fengchia: NT$240, 17 mins
#5 stop of City Tour - Fengchia Night Market
We wanted to pack some light dinner back so a trip to the night market! We stopped by this bubble tea that sells interesting drinks - I think we got some green bean tea. It was rather sweet for a Singaporean taste bud.
And we got hooked onto this claw machine store that you could claw snacks - it wasn't easy, but 100% fun:
Fengchia Night Market 逢甲夜市
I would say everything in Fengchia was super overpriced. But 3 personal recommended eats - 月亮蝦餅 Moon Shrimp Cake, 鸡蛋糕 Egg cake and 地瓜球 Sweet Potato Balls! It must be these specific stores:
Two other specific stores to avoid at all cost - 盐烤蛤蜊 Salt-Grilled Clams, 鸡爪冻 Jellied Chicken Feet. The clams were poorly handled (one of us ended up hospitalised, more to share), they were forcing the clams to open up, there were other stalls on the same stretch so try other clam stores instead. And the chicken feet was just meh.
Everything was brought back to the hotel and we ended the day with all these snacks:
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