Taipei - Day 1

This is a continuation from the Cebu Trip. Right after spending 24 hours in Cebu, we took a flight to Taipei! It is really a great experience to experience SG culture, then suddenly Philippines culture, then the next day Taipei culture! Culture shock sia!
Anyway this is our hotel... Rainbow! Its called chang hong, and i always thought its cai hong. We lost the photo of the hotel... the first sight of the hotel... sad. But this is what we got from the web.

To those going to Taipei, this hotel is highly recommended by me! cos it has a damn good location, right in the middle of Xi Men Ding, which is a very popular shopping district, analogous to in the middle of orchard road in Singapore.

We lost all the pictures that we took from 12noon to 5pm.... damn sad la... =(

From 5pm onwards... We went to Shih Lin Night Market.

Shih Lin Night Market as seen from the train station

Shui Jian Bao - Pan fried Bun - i thought this was ok only...not fantastic... but we had a fantastic one later on...

Bubble Tea Shop - Look at the colourful display, and the number of choices... The bubble tea in Taiwan taste really different from those in SG, ours taste more like syrup drink rather than tea.

Sausages

Black Pepper, Traditional, etc...

I dunno what is this... I guess its like pig organs AND STUFFS...

Qing Hua Xia Dan - Frog Lay Eggs - Its is a highly recommended drink by me!

The Drink - It has warm starch/jelly pearls in tea i think, its a cold drink and the pearls are warm... its not bubble tea, i dunno how to describe... just drink it can!? hehe

The Very famous Shih Lin Deep Fried Chicken Chop - It is so big k! and the spices which was sprinkled over it is so nice! omg, i can have one a day!

Something caught my attention - a pancake stall...

Look at how beautiful it is, and the varieties they offer... Yam, Sesame, Chocolate, Red Bean, Green Tea, Cheese...endless!

We settled for a Matcha Azuki Pancake - Green tea and red bean filling pancake - just see how generous they are with the filling! The whole thing is filled with matcha and red bean, omg... i love this! highly recommeded!!!

Walking around Shih Lin Market... shopping and shopping, it is so tired...

So we pamper ourself and sat down at this bubble tea shop and order bubble tea again!

no no, its not bubble tea... we ordered Papaya milk shake! another good one... i suggest that you drink papaya milk shake at least once in taiwan... the milk is Yakult brand one btw, and the taste of the papaya and milk are so distinct!

Saw some kitties... they were facing me initially, and when i flash out my camera, they all face the other side... so i guess they are camera shy...lol

Went back to Xi Men Ding at 12 midnight to go back to hotel, and at this time, all the illegal stalls lined the street... and this stall caught our attention... hmm should i eat? its already midnight...

They sell Sausages with chocolate sauce, wasabi, ma la chili, salad sauce, original, black pepper, coffee, milk, honey etc etc...

we bought a wasabi sausage... look at the amount of wasabi... and yea... i cried on the first bite... lol.

GOOD NIGHT!