I went in the morning to the Chuang Yen Monestary today with my family. What can I say about it? Well, it's beautiful in scenery but...the temple didn't inspire me much. Perhaps the buddha was too new? The only thing I found interesting was a picture of Guan Yin from 900AD or so (carbon dated) made of wood. WOW, that statue was OLD! But besides the Guan Yin statue and the architecture of the buildings, I didn't find the shrines to be any interesting, especially after seeing all the authentic, original ones in Chinatown (particularly the ones from Shanghai, Xian, HK, and Guanzhou). However, it's understandable. Americans get taxed everywhere and that monastery was not government funded, so for what it had, everything was really well designed. After that, my family and I decided to go to Flushing, NY for dinner. The funny thing was, my Phone's Google Navigation GPS was much better than the paid Garmin Nuvi GPS alternative. For one, my phone had GPS signal while the Garmin took a while to even receive signal. The graphics on my phone also looked MUCH better than that of the dedicated GPS. Finally, the GPS made us go through a toll bridge when my phone's GOOGLE GPS could have helped us avoid that. I love my android phone.
And afterwards, we ate dinner at flushing. It was chinese food - northern/taiwanese style. Things looked weird but tasted pretty good, so that's that. I also ordered really spicy qing dynasty chicken or whatever. DAMN, those peppers were ultra spicy! Luckily, the chicken wasn't that spicy, so I managed to eat it all. Whew~
I promised to take pictures for her and I did. I just finished uploading it to Facebook, but re-uploading it to blogspot will take a long time, so I'll just link it to my album for now: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2127414033898.123075.1502342492
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