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One night Taipei: Pizza Cut Five and night market
Our trip to Vietnam last week took us through Taipei, Taiwan, where we stayed for one short night on our way to Vietnam. We arrived in Taipei in the early evening, and booked a room at Dahshin Hotel (also calls itself "Delight Hotel" although there seems to be a bigger hotel of that same name), not far from Jhongshan (中山) station. We then took a bus for 90 TWD (about ¥250) that dropped us not far from the hotel, where we dropped our bags. The staff was very welcoming, and it turned out that the hotel has mostly Japanese guests, and the staff also speaks Japanese very well.
One thing I had been most looking forward to about Taipei, since over a year when my friend William (based in Taiwan) had brought it up, is a T-shirt shop that's totally inspired by Pizzic*to Five!! The name is Pizza Cut Five, and their whole concept is based about selling T-shirts in pizza delivery boxes, plus they borrowed (cough) a bunch of designs from P5 too. Their recent designs have somehow shifted in other directions, but still some of their designs will make any P5 fan happy.
I was lucky to find a shop in a department store by Jhongshan station, and I kept the shop's girl busy until a bit past closing time. The other shops were all ready to close with their staff waiting for the chime, and even someone came to tell us to leave (though our shop's girl told them off). I bought 4 T-shirts at a discount price (the more you buy the cheaper), and got a free hat with that! All the boxes and bags are keepers too!
After another quick stop at the hotel to drop my shopping bags, we walked to a nearby night market with cheap food stalls, where we had been before (Ningxia Road Night Market = 寧夏路夜市). I had already had dinner on the plane, but there's always room for a 4th meal in a country with so much good food, even after having lost one hour from the time difference. :)
Bonus: a strange guy announcing free wi-fi at the airport.
The next morning we caught the first bus to the airport around 4:40, to catch our plane to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam! To be continued...
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Posted on October 2, 2009 at 00:25 | Tweet
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ah, so you made it to one. they seem to have stalls all over the island. way too expensive for me though. you can get some of the non-p5 inspired stuff at 7-11 now. i think it's funny that they have borrowed images from p5 that p5 in turn had "borrowed" from elsewhere. i somehow doubt the designers realize this.
Posted by william on October 2, 2009 at 03:38
Ha! Stayed at the same hotel a couple of years ago. Remember the great Taiwanese breakfast with o-kayu. Suppose you missed that if you left that early though.
Cool store. So it's actually like the Granpih of Taiwan?
Posted by Jens on October 2, 2009 at 20:58
William, yeah you must be right that they probably don't realize all of that. Anyway great sense to borrow from P5! :) Compared to the standards here the T-shirts seemed rather nice-priced to me.
Jens, what a coincidence about the hotel!! :) Too bad I missed the breakfast. Next time maybe!
And yeah it's a sort of Graniph I'd say! The whole pizza concept is quite cool too.
Posted by Patrick on October 4, 2009 at 22:08