Taipei May-hem (Day 1)
Because stonerxd is too lazy to write anything about our Taiwan trip, the honour of documenting shall be mine :) Taiwan is a really lovely place and I would really love to go back there again. I wish I had the memory of an elephant, because I'll probably drop a few details here and there, so I better get to it now :P
Day 1:
Trepidation! Could not sleep the night before, and it was an early flight. I was set to travel alone because Sandra and Elise were leaving on another flight. By the time I had boarded my flight, they had already landed and were having breakfast in Taipei.
This, on the other hand, was my sad breakfast.
The flight was pretty smooth apart from some turbulence midway through, but I was mostly stuck between being bored and sleepy at the same time. Not a very good feeling, I must say. Unbeknownst to me, my future travel buddies were sitting next to me
Kacey the shuai ah beng/lian
And her lovely sister, May. Camwhoring on the plane, no less
We didn't talk until after the flight! They're from M'sia but Kacey's working in SG atm, and they asked what I was doing alone on the flight (being lonely and bored, obviously) and we later made plans to travel together, expanding our total group size to five!
After an unnervingly long bus ride, where they switched us from a nice coach to a more hot and squeezy one midway (what a sham!), we ended up (of all places) at a Ding Tai Fung near the town area, on the pretext that we wanted to see what TWXLBs tasted like
Le contemplate~
Le phototake~
Verdict: The XLBs here taste slightly nicer, though the ones at the outside stalls are better!
After that, we hit the streets to see just what all the TW hype was about. Definitely more crowded than Orchard Road, the traffic here is a lot more intense, they cross lanes like nobody's business, so you've really got to watch your surroundings in case a stray car gets in the way. Needless to say, I was pretty damn annoyed by the lack of order in the area. Lawless, lawless I say! coeurdeninja will be horrified to find that the currently trending song is J.Lo ft Pitbull's ON THE FLOOR and NANANANANANANA plays every 5 other minutes.
The streets are really crowded, even on weekdays! They told us that Taiwanese people don't need to sleep, they just party and head to school/work the next day!
This is their version of Koi, have to queue for a bit also! Had Ovaltine (?!?!) bubbletea here
Their bubbletea, bytheway, is insanely sweet. It is impossible that the Taiwanese are not diabetics!! Their "normal" sweet is like our 120% and their 70% is our 100% etc etc. I have a sweet tooth, but when I took a sip from the cup, I almost choked from all the sugar I was bombarded with. Also, they give a generous serving of pearls. Ridiculously large cups (hahaha) also, will post pictures on the last day of the largest mug of bubbletea I'd ever seen!
Shopping is also pretty fun in XiMengDing (the district we were staying in), but slightly more expensive than the rest of the night markets because it's considered the more hip area of Taipei. Generally a pretty cool place to hang about, and the cabs don't have midnight meters, so you can really just play endlessly! The only stopper is of course, your sanity/health/constitution.
Our first dinner here was at a novelty toilet restaurant that you sometimes read about in Japanese news. Except this one was in Taiwan. The food there is pretty mediocre, but they sold heavily on the ambience and novelty
It is pretty aesthetic for a water closet
FOOD SERVED IN A TOiLET BOWL. Not very appetizing in itself, though. Past all that novelty.
Idk what's so "modern" about those toilets, but if you insist..
After that we headed back to our hostel to get a good night's rest in preparation for WuFenPu shopping tomorrow!
And this concludes Day 1 in Taipei! More awesomesauce to come ^^
Day 1:
Trepidation! Could not sleep the night before, and it was an early flight. I was set to travel alone because Sandra and Elise were leaving on another flight. By the time I had boarded my flight, they had already landed and were having breakfast in Taipei.
This, on the other hand, was my sad breakfast.
The flight was pretty smooth apart from some turbulence midway through, but I was mostly stuck between being bored and sleepy at the same time. Not a very good feeling, I must say. Unbeknownst to me, my future travel buddies were sitting next to me
Kacey the shuai ah beng/lian
And her lovely sister, May. Camwhoring on the plane, no less
We didn't talk until after the flight! They're from M'sia but Kacey's working in SG atm, and they asked what I was doing alone on the flight (being lonely and bored, obviously) and we later made plans to travel together, expanding our total group size to five!
After an unnervingly long bus ride, where they switched us from a nice coach to a more hot and squeezy one midway (what a sham!), we ended up (of all places) at a Ding Tai Fung near the town area, on the pretext that we wanted to see what TWXLBs tasted like
Le contemplate~
Le phototake~
Verdict: The XLBs here taste slightly nicer, though the ones at the outside stalls are better!
After that, we hit the streets to see just what all the TW hype was about. Definitely more crowded than Orchard Road, the traffic here is a lot more intense, they cross lanes like nobody's business, so you've really got to watch your surroundings in case a stray car gets in the way. Needless to say, I was pretty damn annoyed by the lack of order in the area. Lawless, lawless I say! coeurdeninja will be horrified to find that the currently trending song is J.Lo ft Pitbull's ON THE FLOOR and NANANANANANANA plays every 5 other minutes.
The streets are really crowded, even on weekdays! They told us that Taiwanese people don't need to sleep, they just party and head to school/work the next day!
This is their version of Koi, have to queue for a bit also! Had Ovaltine (?!?!) bubbletea here
Their bubbletea, bytheway, is insanely sweet. It is impossible that the Taiwanese are not diabetics!! Their "normal" sweet is like our 120% and their 70% is our 100% etc etc. I have a sweet tooth, but when I took a sip from the cup, I almost choked from all the sugar I was bombarded with. Also, they give a generous serving of pearls. Ridiculously large cups (hahaha) also, will post pictures on the last day of the largest mug of bubbletea I'd ever seen!
Shopping is also pretty fun in XiMengDing (the district we were staying in), but slightly more expensive than the rest of the night markets because it's considered the more hip area of Taipei. Generally a pretty cool place to hang about, and the cabs don't have midnight meters, so you can really just play endlessly! The only stopper is of course, your sanity/health/constitution.
Our first dinner here was at a novelty toilet restaurant that you sometimes read about in Japanese news. Except this one was in Taiwan. The food there is pretty mediocre, but they sold heavily on the ambience and novelty
It is pretty aesthetic for a water closet
FOOD SERVED IN A TOiLET BOWL. Not very appetizing in itself, though. Past all that novelty.
Idk what's so "modern" about those toilets, but if you insist..
After that we headed back to our hostel to get a good night's rest in preparation for WuFenPu shopping tomorrow!
And this concludes Day 1 in Taipei! More awesomesauce to come ^^