A Couple of Temples and Capybaras

Jojo's top requests were to go the Capybara restaurant and the poop restaurant.  With teens you never know if they are really serious or are trying to get you going.  Both of these places exist here in Taipei.  Both were rated terrible for food quality.  At the Poop Cafe a couple of people sit on real toilets while the rest sit on benches.  The food comes out looking like various animals/humans poop.  Not something I need to see or try.

The Capybara are actual animals that live in South America.  There are a couple of places that you can see them and pet them in Taiwan.  One of which is a cafe in Taipei.  We headed to that cafe first off around 11am.  Our usual get going time.  You could see the two capybaras and the duck in a small pool in front of the cafe.  In the cafe they serve food items shaped vaguely like capybaras.  The food reviews were horrible.  But that is not the point.  You have to buy something to eat at the cafe and then pay extra to go into that front area where the capybaras are in the pool and feed and pet them.  They are wet.  And unfortunately as we found out, you also have to make an appointment.  So we could look at them and take photos, but we could not touch them.

Temple across from the metro stop.

Random people who did make reservations.

For each reservation you have 15 minutes with the animals.  You get a cup of greens to feed them with.  

Back past the temple to the metro.  We took the blue line here - so must take the blue back to Taipei Central Station to catch the red line.  We will find something to eat when we got off the metro close to the two temples which are next on our list of things to see.  It has started to rain.  Three of us have umbrellas.  We search for a restaurant where there is seating for four.  All four of us has decided we do not care for Taiwanese food.  But that seems to be the only kind that are open.  We are rejected by some restaurants that appear to be open, but tell us they are closed.  It is 2pm.  We finally find a Japanese restaurant that tells we will have to eat fast as they close at 3pm.  I get tempura.  We get two orders of sushi/sashimi and 2 orders or ramen noodle soup.  Things come out one by one.  Michael gets his sashimi within 20 minutes.  My tempura comes out next.  At 2:30 the ramen is served.  And at a quarter to 3 finally Alex gets his sushi.  It seems the chef can only make one thing at a time - and it takes 15 minutes each time.  The bill was twice as expensive as the most expensive meal we have had so far.  And the food was not that good.

Next the temples - in now pouring rain.  First the Bao-An Temple.

Then we walked across the street to the Taipei Confucius Temple.

Luckily both temples had covered areas and sometimes the rain would slow to a few drops.  Michael checking his camera settings.

We always find turtles!

By then we were all a little wet and ready to go back to the apartment.  

This morning we ran out of hot water.  I was in the middle of my shower and had to rinse off and wash and rinse my hair in cold water.  The host had responded but wanted until 10 pm to fix the problem.  The water pressure had also totally disappeared just before we left the apartment.  Would the problem be fixed when we returned?