Truthfully, still don't really know what the Lantern Festival's all about.. I think it should be re-named Eating Extravaganza for us though, because that's pretty much all we did.
Just a 40-minute bus ride from the last stop on the Subway out of the city, and the girls and I ended up in PingXi, the site for the lantern festival. The lanterns were really cool, obviously (see picture), but equally fantastic was the display of street food, oh my god you would not believe it!
It took us around 2 hours to walk all the way down the one very, very, very long street (alley? road?) with stands and tents of street food (on both sides, of course), since we tried practically everything we saw! There were like asian burritos, fried chicken, fried shrimp with eggs, fried shrimp balls, pork skewers, fried veggie dumplings, strawberries with condensed milk and chocolate sauce, unripe green mangos with sugar, salted and spicy chicken with cucumbers, i think i'm still missing something... haha it was literally a food tour.
We got to the end of the road (quite literally) and found a stand to decorate (de-face) our lantern. With English, Italian, and Chinese written all over it (words and wishes of luck, happiness, and love), our multi-cultural lantern was definitely unique to say the least, and when as it floated up into the sky joining all the other hundreds, maybe thousands of lanterns, we all cheered with delight (partly out of sheer relief that it didn't get caught in any telephone wires or catch on fire).
Oh, did I mention I almost spelled 幸福 (happiness) wrong? (In Chinese, jeez, my English isn't that bad--yet) A Taiwanese guy definitely corrected me and then laughed--so much for all those Chinese lessons, sorry Mom & Dad...
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