I have a few but i will name one pretty cool place here. And thats right at the mouth of the kaohsiung harbour (the northern entrance i believe) . There are three makeshift restaurants there and you can order up some food and watch the ships come in and go out of that busy harbour. Great seafood there too. And then you can walk around the area. When down to kaohsiung from taipei, i loved to go there.
Outside Buttercup’s uncurtained bedroom window.
With binoculars.
Carnegies for brunch and big M’s rooftop for late tipples and drunken bullshit. However, I suspect if I was still living in Taiwan I’d probably have moved to Alley’s. Pity, the view’s not as good.
Oh yeah, then there’s Bobwundaye. Hmm, all drinking venues.
HG
When I was in Taipei, I liked sitting in the Botanical Gardens with a bag of cold Taiwan Beers. A nice litle oasis in the heart of the big bad city.
Is this near Ai He (Love River)? There is a nice little place tucked just beneath the first bridge across the river.
Kaohsiung’s fishermans’ wharf is also pretty nice, but it’s become crowded.
Is this near Ai He (Love River)? There is a nice little place tucked just beneath the first bridge across the river.
Kaohsiung’s fishermans’ wharf is also pretty nice, but it’s become crowded.[/quote]
its off to the left side of Hsi zhi wan beach (spelling?) as u come upon the beach. WAYYY to the left till it meets the mouth of the harbor
[quote=“the chief”]Outside Buttercup’s uncurtained bedroom window.
With binoculars.[/quote]
You need binoculars outside my window! Things are going downhill fast, aren’t they? First it’s your vision, then your hearing, then… Old age is a terrible thing…
Last time in Kaohsiung I found those restaurants had been bulldozed down and replaced with a crappy little park full of betelnut chompers with their fishing gear strewn all over the place amidst red stains and empty bottles of Whisbee.
But you can still walk down that winding road in the opposite direction of the sea and will find some harbor-side makeshift restaurants with the same food quality. You just can’t get that view of the huge ships floating by at a few meters away from where you sit.
Another choice is the old British consulate building up on the hill overlooking the harbor entrance. That’s been transformed into a restaurant coffee shop…and you can feel as if you are a Colonial overlord looking down on the peasants at the harbor entrance grovelling over fish scraps.
7-11.
They are everywhere. I walk in and always receive a bright cheery greeting. Thins I want/need are nice and orderly on the shelves. They have beer. They have sodas and many kinds of tea. They are all clean and well-lit. They have very good air-conditioners. The staff is easily identifiable.
And when I pay and start to leave, they always have a good word for my day.
7-11 is my favorite hang-out on Taiwan.
7/11
That’s so sad.
One thing that really bothers me about Taiwan is the reliance on 7/11. You can call it an aesthetic thing. You can call me a pretentious punce for thinking this way. You can call me a French farmer. But somewhere down deep inside it truly sickens me that I buy my bread, beer, milk and fags at the pits.
[quote=“Fox”]7/11
That’s so sad.
One thing that really bothers me about Taiwan is the reliance on 7/11. You can call it an aesthetic thing. You can call me a pretentious punce for thinking this way. You can call me a French farmer. But somewhere down deep inside it truly sickens me that I buy my bread, beer, milk and fags at the pits.[/quote]Cheer Up there Fox. It was written a bit tongue-in-cheek.
I buy my bread at a lovely bakery that actually has real bread with many choices - multi-grain, nut-bread and real baquettes with texture.
I buy my beer at a place called"Chen Linh" or something like that. They were formally known as “Gov’t Stores”…good prices and good selections.
My winer at a delightful retail shop owned by a friend who has a very large wine/liquor distributot business. Very drinkable Chilean Cabernet @ NT$250 per bottle on up. Full liquor with, as I noticed this morning, 3 kinds of that horriblre stuff called 'Absinthe". Priced at NT$1300, 1500 & 1800 for some handmade boutique brand.
As to fags…I don’t smoke.
So belay the worry…all is not lost.
Hell’s belles, TC, you got it far better than me! I’m supposed to be in an international city, you’re supposed to be in southern Taiwan!
My local is a none-too-Wellcome with 1,000 types of spam, floury, crap baguettes, boxed Aussie wines and a shitty array of cheap Phillippines spirits. To be fair, they also have baked beans and vegemite . . . but I want what he has!
HG
Last time in Kaohsiung I found those restaurants had been bulldozed down and replaced with a crappy little park full of betelnut chompers with their fishing gear strewn all over the place amidst red stains and empty bottles of Whisbee.
But you can still walk down that winding road in the opposite direction of the sea and will find some harbor-side makeshift restaurants with the same food quality. You just can’t get that view of the huge ships floating by at a few meters away from where you sit.
Another choice is the old British consulate building up on the hill overlooking the harbor entrance. That’s been transformed into a restaurant coffee shop…and you can feel as if you are a Colonial overlord looking down on the peasants at the harbor entrance grovelling over fish scraps.[/quote]
thanks for update 
, bummer tho as i liked those places, still they were illegal and it was a matter of time before someone got to them
I don’t see any difference between buying my beer and cigs in a 7-11 or another shop.
And I agree that convenience marts are great places to hang out for a few beers.
I like hanging around the cash register, after reading the paper, and then watching the music videos on the little flat screens while chatting to the cashier and the customers…or maybe chomp on a few betel nuts or tea eggs with some taxi drivers.
The magazine section is also a good place to pick up on chicks and if you have one of the modern stores in your area you can invite them to sit outside at the picknick table and have some BoonesFarm wine and microwave popcorn. There’s also a full selection of potao chips and Taiwanese chicks just love them–especially the seaweed flavored Doritos.
If it’s a slow Monday night I may even take some bills down to pay and mail off a package.
The other day I drove past a Circle K and noticed they had a seperate enclosed room right next door with tables,chairs, and a microwave.
I know where I’m going this weekend!
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]Carnegies for brunch and big M’s rooftop for late tipples and drunken bullshit. However, I suspect if I was still living in Taiwan I’d probably have moved to Alley’s. Pity, the view’s not as good.
Oh yeah, then there’s Bobwundaye. Hmm, all drinking venues.
HG[/quote]
Yes but I really like listening to the waves lap onto your beachfront view. I guess that’s why I slept so well at your place the other night. BBQ wine and the ocean view where you’re living right on the beach front HG.
I’ll be coming over more often me thinks.
Always welcome, but if you could liberate TC’s local bread and wine shop, that’d be a plus!
HG
[quote=“tommy525”]
thanks for update 
, bummer tho as i liked those places, still they were illegal and it was a matter of time before someone got to them[/quote]
Well at least there was a scene on t.v. The “owners” kicking and screaming, police and bulldozers and camera crews.
They didn’t let go without a fight :bravo:
I live near the other end of Kaohsiung from the place Tommy525 was talking about, and when the weather is cooler, I like to ride my bicycle from Zhao Ming to Hong Mao Gang, at the unfashionable southern end of Kaohsiung harbor. Not that Zhao Ming is very fashionable either, but I digress. There’s a ferry dock there, a line of roadside stands on a newly constructed plaza, a tower shaped like the character “Gao” which is surrounded by a very small green area and gives a great view of the harbor (Gao zi ta) and you can walk around there quite comfortably. It’s also the catbirds seat for ship watching… the main Evergreen container loading terminal is directly across the channel, Hyundai and Yang ming are on your right, and a lot of the really big container ships, tankers, freighters and fishing boats come through there, often at very close range.
Hong Mao Gang Gao Zi Ta viewed from the south end of Cijin
[quote=“Hongda”][quote=“tommy525”]
thanks for update , bummer tho as i liked those places, still they were illegal and it was a matter of time before someone got to them[/quote]
Well at least there was a scene on t.v. The “owners” kicking and screaming, police and bulldozers and camera crews.
They didn’t let go without a fight :bravo:[/quote]
i most remember one time when a friend from england and myself and my then girlfriend just finished a nice lunch during the tail end of a typhoon and left the table and a HUGE WAVE came crashing onto the very table. we escaped by literally SECONDS from a drenching. IT was HILARIOUS !!! something to remember !!!
[quote=“Salvatore Armani”]I live near the other end of Kaohsiung from the place Tommy525 was talking about, and when the weather is cooler, I like to ride my bicycle from Zhao Ming to Hong Mao Gang, at the unfashionable southern end of Kaohsiung harbor. Not that Zhao Ming is very fashionable either, but I digress. There’s a ferry dock there, a line of roadside stands on a newly constructed plaza, a tower shaped like the character “Gao” which is surrounded by a very small green area and gives a great view of the harbor (Gao zi ta) and you can walk around there quite comfortably. It’s also the catbirds seat for ship watching… the main Evergreen container loading terminal is directly across the channel, Hyundai and Yang ming are on your right, and a lot of the really big container ships, tankers, freighters and fishing boats come through there, often at very close range.
Hong Mao Gang Gao Zi Ta viewed from the south end of Cijin
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ya? cool ! i always wondered what the southern mouth is like? dont think i ever got around to seeing that area.