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Taipei

We had a quick 3-night escapade to Taipei, Taiwan last weekend, and it was a lot of fun! It was the second time I went there, the previous time was about exactly 5 years ago, in March 2001, and I didn't remember much specific details from it.

Here's a list of some of the things we did (in no particular order):

- We ate and ate and ate, mostly at night markets, food such as: oyster "tenpura", dumplings, Taiwan-style hot-dog, shrimp fried rice, 豆花 (to-fa-), beef+noodles, papaya milk, watermelon juice, steak*, more dumplings, strawberry shaved ice, pepper rice cake, pork on rice, vegetables, and a Whopper Jr. w/ cheese (couldn't resist). * I suspect it's the not-well-cooked egg that accompanied my steak that made me go to the toilet too many times on Sunday...

- We visited the refreshing 台北之家 (English name Taipei Film House), a complex surrounded with greenery in the middle of the city containing a café with terrasse, restaurant, theatre and bookshop. It reminded me a bit of H1 in Bangkok. We had coffee/tea and a tiramisu.

- We shopped at Joyce Warehouse, though it was much smaller than Hong Kong's huge space. Still there was a lot of Comme des garçons and Martin Margiela, but stuff not being so cheap, nothing for me this time.

- We had a feet massage that checks your body's health by pushing corresponding points on your feet. I found out with shock that the point most painful corresponded to my balls! The therapist reassured me though, saying that most men feel pain at that point and it's nothing to worry about. :) We communicated in Japanese, and all clients we saw during the short time we were there were also Japanese, mostly men.

- We bought about a hundred delicious pineapple cakes! Partly for ourselves, but of course a bit for friends and as white day gifts.

- We went up Taipei 101, currently the world's tallest building at 509m, built in 2004. Even though it was quite cloudy on that day, we could see the view alright.

- We went to Taiwan Storyland, a sort of museum that shows how things were in Taiwan in about mid-20th century. We went there with long time p5ml friend William!

Much other stuff too, but I'll leave it at that and let the pictures speak for themselves.

See all the rest of my best photos from this trip in my Taipei 2006 Flickr set.

Posted on March 16, 2006 at 14:15 | Tweet |

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