On my second full day, my parents and my aunt and cousin, Nathan, took a trip to Yang Ming Mountain to eat some really good chicken. Omg it was good. I don’t usually like chicken. It’s such a common flavor. Everything can taste like chicken. But the chicken here taste soooo good. I don’t know what they feed them but it’s amazing. We had this taro stuff too that was sooooo good. I’m so glad that I like eating taro now when I used to dislike it. Food is so much more fun to eat when you’re less picky. Currently, I’m working on liking bitter melon and assorted beans. Then I think I’ll be done (insects and other exotic animals aside).
Then we went to Dharma Drum Mountain, a Buddhist school for monks to drum? The place didn’t look overbearing at all and was quiet peaceful. None of that, swooping roofs, red and gold dragons or colorful sculptures. It was really modern, sleek, and minimal.
The Center was inaugurated on October 21, 2005. The buildings in the Center were designed in harmony with contours of the mountain, with brown, gray, and white as their main color, reflecting a humanistic spirit while merging with nature, and featuring a simple and moderate architectural style, making the whole environment and the complex itself a means of teaching.
In addition, in effort to realize environmental protection, ecological construction methods were adopted in constructing the buildings, so as to show respect to, preserve, and protect life and natural resources.
This was taken by someone else. Pictures aren’t allow inside the building.
The picture doesn’t do the place justice. There is a glass window behind the statue that you can look through to see the running water on the wall behind it. There is also a pool of water running around her.
Regardless of religion, it’s a really calming place and the design is really nice.
I bought this awesome mug from the gift shop.
The sillhouette is filled with silver foil and lines eminate from him. Totally my favorite cup now.
Later we went to Black Store, a restaurant my brother keeps raving about. It was good. But I felt so guilty in the end. Which is just about every night now for the past 4 days I’ve been here.
