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Lost in Song Shan's Back Lane
the back lane isnt actually that hard once u realize it runs roughly parallel to Bade Rd. the trick is to use the temples as landmarks, there's a small Mazu temple near the Fuyuan end that basically marks the eastern edge. if you keep that on your left going in you won't loop back on yourself.
also the bubble tea place you're prob thinking of is the one with the handwritten sign, no English, closes around 9. they don't do takeaway cups so you gotta drink it there.
honestly the back lane makes way more sense if u think of it as two loops instead of a grid. there's the inner loop around the old market stalls and the outer one that hugs the school wall, and almost every wrong turn is just you switching between them by accident. pick one loop and commit, dont cut across the middle.
also download the offline map for that area before you go in. signal drops hard in those narrow stretches between the brick buildings and google will just spin. saved me more than once around the Raohe side.
I usually just follow the drainage ditch that cuts through the middle of it. That thing snakes from Lane 155 of Section 5, Bade Road all the way toward the Raohe night market side, so if you keep the water on one side you always have a spine to fall back on. Most people try to memorize turns instead and that's where they get spun around.
Fair warning, some stretches flood after heavy rain and the smell gets rough, so it's a dry-day strategy. If you'd rather not deal with that, drop a pin at the temple on your phone before you go in and just use that as your anchor.
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Seeking recommendations for facial or massage treatments targeting jaw tension and TMJ issues
For muscle-based jaw tightness, the traditional 推拿 places often do better than the fancy facial spas, and they're cheaper. There's a small 國術館 near Shuanglian I go to for neck and jaw stuff, the guy works the masseter from outside and does traction on the cervical spine, which is where a lot of referred jaw tension actually starts. Around NT$800 for 40 minutes, no booking app, you just walk in. It won't fix a real joint problem but if your issue is muscular clenching it's worth a try.
if its actual tmj stuff and not just cosmetic face massage, go see a dentist who does 咬合板 (occlusal splint) first, the massage places treat the symptom not the joint. dr chen at a clinic off fuxing south road near daan park sorted my clicking in like 3 visits, mostly by adjusting my bite & giving me a night guard. the relief from that lasted way longer than any spa facial i tried
my physio at a small clinic near Liuzhangli MRT did intraoral work on my masseter and pterygoid muscles, basically gloved finger inside the cheek releasing trigger points. weird at first but it fixed the morning headaches within maybe 4 sessions. its not a spa thing at all, its rehab, so book it as a medical visit. 針灸 also helped me, the needles go in the jaw and temple, but the physio did more for the actual tightness.