CIJIN ISLAND & the LIOUHE NIGHT MARKET!! 🇹🇼 (KAOHSIUNG - PART 2!)

[@giannishen]

Thanks a lot for sharing this beautiful video! I would like to share below: Rainbow Arch uses geometric architectural forms as the main design elements, and the changes in light and shadow at different times create a three-dimensional sense of space. The rainbow colors represent the meaning of happiness, bringing good luck blessings to newlyweds! Since it is a photography base jointly created by three wedding dress companies, it is exclusive to their wedding dress companies from 4 to 6:30 p.m. every day, and they have the priority to use it. However, tourists are free to take pictures here during the rest of the time! As for the "run down" problems you mentioned, because they are owned by the wedding dress company, the local government cannot control and maintain it! I think you went a little late, and it’s a pity that you didn't see the different beauty brought by the change in light! Bubble tea consisted of a mixture of hot Taiwanese black tea, tapioca balls, condensed milk, and syrup or honey. Tapioca balls are the most common ingredient, although there are other ways to make the chewy spheres found in bubble tea. The balls vary in color according to the ingredients mixed in with the tapioca. Most balls are black from brown sugar. The official English name should be "milk tea with tapioca balls". Bubble tea（literal translation）＝Boba milk tea（pronunciation translation／larger size balls）＝Pearl milk tea（smaller size balls） * bubble：originally it was referring to those foams, which were teas made from shaker cups. * In Taiwan, tapioca balls can be replaced with the following: coconut jelly, aloe vera, pudding, popping boba, herbal jelly, mini mochi, ect...

[@IfWeGoTo]

Ohh thank you very much for sharing this extra information! It is really cool to gain some of the more local knowledge! :) Also had no idea that Boba and Pearls were different! We thought they were used inteerchangeably! Learning new stuff every day! Thank you!!

[@giannishen]

@@IfWeGoTo It is my pleasure, thanks to you too! 👍🥰🙏

[@TheJoeytsao]

If you are trying to register an easycard to U-bike, keep an eye out for small kiosks at U-bike rental places. You can register on the spot, and you can rent a bike within 3 minutes after you are done. Keep in mind not all U-bike places have this kiosk, try and find them in more crowded areas (metro stations/transit spots, etc.)

[@IfWeGoTo]

Ohh thank you for the tips!! Hopefully someone visiting will see this and it will help them!! 😃 Next time we’ll definitely do this too!!

[@Jackavatar]

Look at the way you use the straw for bubble tea, you are a local now.

[@IfWeGoTo]

Hahaha what’s the non-local way look like?! 😆

[@mngyng1]

​@@IfWeGoToCarefully strip off the wrap of the straw, carefully poke the straw around the sealer film until finally poking through.

[@p.h.vanesa886]

@@IfWeGoTo Additional info of Non-local way: 1. First, try to peel of the sealer film of the cup (until they’re told not to) 2. Then, try to find a way to take off the plastic wrap of the straw 3. Finally, put the straw ON the sealer film with no distance (direct touch), and start to push it until the point is destroyed 😭 4. Additionally, they kinda unconsciously squeeze the cup when they focus on poking the film, so when they finally poke the straw through, the drink will be like sqeeeeeezed out everywhere. How to be MORE local even? Tie the plastic wrap of the straw On the straw so you don’t need to find a place to throw it, and it won’t fly away if you put it on the table😉.

[@ice110_tw]

I thought about that as well… hahaha

[@criskity]

Great thing about Taiwanese people: they love to volunteer to show you around, and will never ask for payment like people do in so many other countries. Taiwanese people are genuine.

[@IfWeGoTo]

Absolutely! They treated us so well, really appreciate the Taiwanese people!

[@ny1997feb]

I have been following you since Taiwan series, honestly I love your every single video, they are awesome. It's really cool that I can travel with you in this way and I can't wait for the new ones to come up. I am going to check out on your previous video from other countries while waiting for the new video, thank you Brandi and Alan for making such nice video to connect with us:)

[@IfWeGoTo]

Aww thank you so much!! This really means a lot to us to hear - that is exactly what we had hoped for! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment!! 😃

[@黃圓頭]

恭喜訂閱數已超過30,000，往100,000邁進，加油！

[@IfWeGoTo]

哇謝謝你！！ ：D 希望很快！！

[@Robe-b2x]

良いVideo😊 シェアをありがとう！ あなた達の旅に幸運を！

[@IfWeGoTo]

どうもありがとうございます！！

[@wilsonleelee2010]

kaoshiung in the night time gets more beautiful 😊😊

[@IfWeGoTo]

Agreed!!

[@戴文賢-m4u]

視頻很棒，很用心，拍攝得很好。透過視頻，本人也更暸解台灣，謝謝您們!

[@IfWeGoTo]

哇謝謝你！我們很高興您喜歡它！這是世界上一個非常美麗的地區！

[@nigeldavison3004]

Hi from the UK i worked in Kaohsiung for 5 weeks in 2006 fantastic place. Then back in 2007 for 8 weeks working on the new metro trains at the time. Lived on the 60th floor of the splender hotel or as localy known ( 85 TOWER )

[@IfWeGoTo]

Wow, cool!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@戴文賢-m4u]

歡迎您們!台灣南部風景美，也有很多美食，好好享受!

[@IfWeGoTo]

謝謝你！！是的，南台灣很美麗！

[@OneDay-pu6rt]

​@@IfWeGoTo西台灣也很棒，希望你們也可以到西台灣來拜訪😆

[@dylanlin586]

Looking forward to the next episode

[@IfWeGoTo]

谢谢你！！！🤗

[@HardQoo]

The exciting and rich content makes this series of Taiwan travels popular among the audience. Congratulations on getting the affirmation and support of 30k viewers. 🎉

[@IfWeGoTo]

Wow thank you so much!! 🤗

[@thunderjmaster]

Amazing video again!! It’s crazy to see how familiar you got with Taiwan culture within a short amount of time. Awesome stuff!!

[@IfWeGoTo]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!!! 🤗 It has been a pleasure to learn more about Taiwan’s culture, we still have a long way to go though!! 😆

[@DeeejaaaVuuu]

油炸食物可以搭配豆漿，很去油解膩，因為黃豆有卵磷脂可以跟油乳化，喝完神清氣爽😊

[@IfWeGoTo]

哦，我們不知道這個！謝謝你的提示！ :D

[@tomtsai]

Been loving your content in Taiwan. I personally would recommend Ruifeng night market over Liuhe. Ruifeng is much bigger, more local, with a younger crowd whilst Liuhe is more touristy IMO.

[@IfWeGoTo]

Thank you so much!!! So happy to hear you’ve enjoyed it!! I think you will enjoy our next video then.. given your recommendation! 😄

[@joseph8424]

Have fun in Taiwan !!! Love your videos , visit again next time ❤🎉🎉🎉

[@IfWeGoTo]

Thank you very much!! We definitely plan to visit again in the future!! :D

[@cheng-enwang1299]

It was so nice to make a local friend.

[@IfWeGoTo]

Agreed!

[@criskity]

The four flavors of the blowtorch beef were Pink Rock Salt, Xinjiang Cumin, French Vanilla, and Spicy.

[@IfWeGoTo]

Ohh thank you!!

[@IfWeGoTo]

Vanilla beef sounds extra interesting!

[@hihosh1]

Been there before my favourite stall was right across from the ferry next to the 711, the crab they were selling was amazing!! Also at the beach you were at, there are ruins on the hill and an amazing view. We actually did a Down Island at Cijin in 2021

[@IfWeGoTo]

Oh we will have to stop there on our next visit! I am a sucker for good crab! lso did not know about the ruins. THAT sounds like it would be a super fun adventure!!

[@constandin861]

So good to watch your video! It's so good!

[@IfWeGoTo]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you very much!!

[@dzoohweso5607]

I did hear the ocean !😊

[@IfWeGoTo]

That's so awesome that the camera picked it up!!

[@ice110_tw]

Thank you for showing more people my hometown. Wish the weather was a bit nicer with the blue sky, the port city looks nicer with the blue.

[@IfWeGoTo]

Thank you for watching!! I bet it is beautiful with blue skies!! The cloudy days sure make filming easier though! :D

[@louisecallanta5968]

I really like the episodes being split into smaller episodes.

[@IfWeGoTo]

I think we do too! Even this felt long! I would love to aim for 10-15 minutes again!! I feel like asking for 30+ minutes at a time is a LOT hhaah

[@EarthLove]

Welcome to my city 💖💖💖 Hope you guys enjoyed your trip and had a good time in Kaohsiung!!

[@IfWeGoTo]

Thank you!! We very much enjoyed our time there! Miss it already!!

[@EarthLove]

@@IfWeGoTo You’re welcome and welcome back anytime 😄😄😄

[@addmiki7078]

毎次笑容都很甜美

[@IfWeGoTo]

謝謝你！

[@asarilo]

Love all of your Taiwan videos. Will you make it to Kenting? I love the scuba diving there and I hope you don't miss it! x

[@IfWeGoTo]

Thank you so much!! Unfortunately we did not make it to Kenting on this trip (we are a bit backlogged on our videos so they have all ready been filmed!) BUT that just means we will need to visit next time! We did not know it was a big scuba destination!!

[@廖嘉豐-f9m]

Like to see you two have fun in Taiwan

[@IfWeGoTo]

We had a great time! Thank you!

[@amei99]

Beautiful harbour city ❤

[@IfWeGoTo]

Yes it was! Thank you!

[@欽哥哥-y9q]

旗津島是人工島，它是為了蓋高雄港才從紅毛港那邊挖出來的，以前它是跟紅毛港連在一起的

[@IfWeGoTo]

哦，謝謝你告訴我們！

[@yehphoebe7679]

Alan is the scale of spicy for Brandi, he can give a precise leveling for Brandi to decide if she could eat it or not 😆

[@IfWeGoTo]

Hahahaha yessss!! You got that right!!

[@yehphoebe7679]

@@IfWeGoTo the situation at my home: Husband: the dish is too spicy! I: no, it’s not,stop the nonsense, eat!

[@vs123]

I like content you my friend

[@IfWeGoTo]

Thank you very much, we are so happy to hear you’re enjoying it! 🤗

[@黃阿土-t1t]

4:01 雪茄煙 🤣

[@IfWeGoTo]

哈哈哈哈

[@luzwinter9361]

Great video!! Is that a merino wool t-shirt and if so what brand??

[@IfWeGoTo]

Hahaha no it is not! It's just a basics T from h&m. I don't think they make this cut any more though. :,)

[@edwardw92]

Romanization of Mandarin Chinese is not easy😂, spell it “Cijin” most native English speakers will say See-Jin, alternatively “Qijin” becomes Kee-Jin. The closest pronunciation is probably Chee-gene. Yes, as explained by Alan, Cijin Island provides a natural barrier for the ports of Kaohsiung, but once upon a time it used be a peninsula, the southern end was actually connected to the main island of Taiwan. It was later dredged to create a second passage way for the ports and an under water tunnel was built to “re-attach” it to the rest of the city.

[@IfWeGoTo]

Hahah definitely not! It is hard to capture the noises and differences in tone! Thanks for watching and sharing the extra bit of info about the port!! It's always very interesting to learn more!~

[@xxoo6303]

👍👍👍

[@IfWeGoTo]

Thank you!

[@TonyChuPT]

6:12 Um... Mandarin does not differentiate the length of syllables. I think the reason that gentleman tried his best to stress a long syllable was because Mandarin is a tonal language and he wanted you to follow his tone as much as you can. The first syllable of CiJin has a rising tone, and the second one is flat.

[@IfWeGoTo]

Ohh Thank you for the tips!

[@yfllll]

So Mandarin Chinese is standardized Chinese from the mainland. Mainland China was actually made up of a lot of different languages, and then the government decided to standardize it to make communication easier. In China and Taiwan, they’ll use the word dialects to describe the different languages, which sometimes leads to confusion because in the west dialects to us doesn’t mean an entirely different language. I would say that when people say dialect in east Asia they mean a non standard language. Or any language that’s not Mandarin Chinese spoken in different localities. Taiwanese came from the fujian dialect in China. It’s also called hokkien. It spread through out south east Asia too like in Singapore but Taiwanese hokkien and hokkien spoken there can be quite different. Taiwanese hokkien is also not the only dialect used in Taiwan. Since my parents spoke only Taiwanese to me and I was born in the US, I can only speak Taiwanese and English. My mandarin is terrible and I have trouble understanding it. I might know 20 words to your 5 words of Chinese haha Sorry for the long comment but I just find the language drift interesting. Also another thing with the standardization in China, they developed pinyin for romanized spelling to transliterate mandarin. In America if you learn Chinese they will teach this system (which I learned too). But in Taiwan it was Christian missionaries who first romanized the mandarin and Taiwanese. And other systems have been developed since. So I found that the English romanization in Taiwan isn’t always pronounced the way I would expect too! Anyway my point is that…pronouncing things in Taiwan is so hard when you can’t read the traditional characters hahaha (Look up Taiwanese languages on Wikipedia, it’s very interesting!)

[@IfWeGoTo]

Got it, thank you for sharing this! :D I agree with you - it is interesting to learn about how language starts and continues to change with time. I took a college course on this once (actually on the Austronesian/Oceanian languages!). Hahah oh yes, we struggled with the pronunciations in Taiwan a LOT! But we honestly do everywhere. It's impossible to get it right in every language - especially when you start to get big variations in dialect. We'll have to read more on Taiwan's languages like you said! Anyways, thanks again! :D

[@美樺黃-z8k]

So good ❤❤

[@IfWeGoTo]

Thank you!!

[@theworlddio2000]

高雄が綺麗に映されてますね！

[@IfWeGoTo]

私達は同意します！！ ご清覧ありがとうございました！

[@theworlddio2000]

@@IfWeGoTo 動画を定期的に見てますのでまた遊びにきてください！

[@cdnsilverdaddy]

Alan and Randi.. the flamed beef flavoured "Suddenl-v" characters shown are from a territory in China. Thus, it is cumin flavoured.

[@IfWeGoTo]

Hahaha, Randi is a fun nickname he came up with! Ohh, that makes sense. We definitely thought it was a mistranslation, but werent sure what to! Thank you!

[@cdnsilverdaddy]

@@IfWeGoTo by the way, we forgot to mention that yes, we can hear the waves overlapping the shoreline inside the shell structure. It did capture it in your video

[@helene.tankimkiat]

Can we take the rickshaw through the island to explore?

[@IfWeGoTo]

@@helene.tankimkiat I don’t remember if there are rickshaws there or not!! I’m sorry!!

[@kiorz]

我聽到海浪的聲音,蠻大聲的😆

[@IfWeGoTo]

哦，太棒了！很高兴相机能拍到它。太酷了！ 😃

[@1peruvianguy]

🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼

[@IfWeGoTo]

I am amazed at. how fast you are at this lol

[@1peruvianguy]

@@IfWeGoTo ¡team notifications squad!

[@chiehlilee9224]

The Suddenly beef is a bad translation, it’s actually cumin flavored.

[@IfWeGoTo]

Ohhh that makes sense!! Hahaha. We figured it was a bad translation but could not figure it out at all!!

[@球球-s3j]

😄😄😄😄😄

[@IfWeGoTo]

Thank you!

[@1970smallbo]

❤😊

[@IfWeGoTo]

Thank you!!

[@abrahamhernandez7782]

👍👍🙏🙏

[@IfWeGoTo]

Thank you!!

[@唐長琳]

😃

[@IfWeGoTo]

Thannk you!!

[@唐長琳]

Nice haircut ！

[@蔡天勳]

那是ㄙㄙ那是素食飯盒

[@brightdeva]

Doi you know if blue tears are visible already there?

[@IfWeGoTo]

I’m not sure!!

[@brightdeva]

@@IfWeGoTo thanks

[@xingxing85]

Alan didnt seem so happy with the old Asian man? It’s quite obvious on his facial expression 😂

[@louisecallanta5968]

Alan hates fish. It was probably the smell.

[@xingxing85]

Ohhh no wonder. It’s the seafood market perhaps

[@IfWeGoTo]

Yes!! This is exactly it! Alan despises the way seafood smells and tastes... him and Chin (the older gentleman in the video) were having some playful banter in the market.. Chin was teasing him and telling him to eat the fish hahaha.

[@mthsu]

I am guessing the vanilla beef is meant to be herbs(spices), while mistranslated with google translate.

[@mthsu]

and that "suddenlv", oh my god. I am guessing they mistranslate that one to "suddenly" and misspell it as "suddenlv". While it is supposed to be cumin.

[@IfWeGoTo]

Ahh thank you!!

[@IfWeGoTo]

Hahah, we are not sure, but it happens! I am sure english translates Chinese very poorly sometimes too. lol

[@constandin861]

旗津 chil-jiin is much closer to Chinese pronunciation.

[@IfWeGoTo]

Thank you!!

[@summersummer1232]

Just wondering if there is still a rule to wear masks in Taiwan? I don't quite understand when you wear masks and when you don't in your videos.

[@IfWeGoTo]

Hi!! When we visited there was still a requirement to wear them in public transit, but I think that was dropped near the end of our stay. Some businesses still requested you wear them though. We generally wore them if we were indoors and in crowded areas if most people around seemed to be, to be respectful of what the majority of people went with. We also did try to take them off for important speaking parts for filming though.

[@kiorz]

"SUDDENLV " is wrong translations🤣. That is "cumin".

[@IfWeGoTo]

Hahah thank you! We figured it was just a mistranslation, but weren’t 100% sure! Cumin makes a lot of sense 😂

[@jasmijnnicolaes1539]

Are masks still obligated? Thought that it was gone by now.

[@IfWeGoTo]

Hi!! When we were there it was still a requirement to wear them in public transit, but I think that was dropped near the end of our stay. Some businesses still requested you wear them though. So we wore them if the majority of people around did! This video was shot several months ago, we’re just very backlogged. It is probably more relaxed now. :)

[@emadenic623]

Nemate prevod na Hrvatski..i Bosanski jezik

[@IfWeGoTo]

Oh hvala što ste mi rekli da ste zainteresirani. Izrađivao sam google prijevode na temelju statistike! Ipak ću ih dodati u naš video katalog!

[@xxoo6303]

❤

[@IfWeGoTo]

Thank you!