Taipei International Flora Expo

 

Today we wake up unusually early to go to the Flora Expo.

 

But first, we grab something to eat at Ching Guang Market 晴光市場

 

My power breakfast: spring onion pancake with egg, fried meat buns and hot milk tea

 

Flora Expo ticket counter

 

My cousin and tour guide Cherry, Dad, Me, and some random couple

 

Five million four hundred fifty eight thousand seven hundred sixty four visitors as of
March 3, 2011. Whew.

 

Even the first aid sign is all hearts and flowers

 

Wall of flowers

 

Sea of flowers

 

They’re so pretty, pretty, pretty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My favorites are:

 
                          Butterfly Orchids                                                                     Calla Lily

 

Auntie Babie and Uncle Frankie, hihihi!

 

That’s my cousin Frances and her funny pose

 

Uncle Frank at the Xi’an Courtyard

 

Grass boys playing Chinese chess in the Shanghai Neighborhood

 

Chinese garden

 

Dad taking a photo of me on the bridge

 

Tropical plants in Malaysia

 

Dolphins in Hong Kong

 

Flamingos, Frances and I in Hawaii

 

Canoe and rainbow in Palau

 

Little lambs in Hungary

 

Church in the Philippines
(I think ours is the best, don’t you?)

 

I see people eating

 

Eating

 

And eating

 

So I have to get myself something to eat, too

 

Glutinous rice dumpling or machang

 

 
                              Meatball soup                                                                   Fish ball soup

 

 
                                       Oil rice                                                                      Fried shrimp roll

 

 
                                Roast chicken                                                                         Tea egg

 

 
                             Spicy stinky tofu                                                          Steamed radish cake

 

Almond tea

 

Frances, Dad, Auntie Babie, Uncle Frank

 

Other interesting sights at the expo:

EcoARK. Guess what it’s made of.

 

Plastic bottles!

 

Another smart way of using plastic bottles

 

A wall made of recycled materials

 

That’s the majestic Grand Hotel at the very back

 

Portable toilets

 

Bug car

 

Insects parade

 

Some really dirty-looking man

 

Taiwan flags

 

Electric car. This is the future.

 

Having tea under a tree

 

Grass Willy

 

Grass whale

 

Grass caterpillar

 

Starbucks shop with flower on top

 

We wish you a Starbucks Christmas, we wish you a Starbucks Christmas…

 

Excuse me, why are you girls not in school?

 

Very nice pose, kiddo!

 

Couples come here to take pre-nup photos

 

Hug me, I’m freezing

 

Daddy and Me

 

I spot this Chinese carving on a wooden bench:

Life is a flower, and love is honey

 

Someone give me some honey.

 

Taipei International Flora Expo:
November 6, 2010 – April 25, 2011, 9am-10pm 
www.2010taipeiexpo.tw