the Day of the One Oh One
After a lazy morning breakfast at XMT's Mac, we saw a guy sprawled on the floor, erm.. after a hard night's partying perhaps? Hmm.. hope he was ok. Oh well, I erm, didn't want to get involved so just left him to his nice little nap, or so that's what I hope it was. We then caught the train to the Chiang Kek Shek Memorial Hall and toured the area around, took a few photos, explored the place. There were quite a number of exhibits, mainly of calligraphy and a few paintings, which LH was excited about for her mum so she bought a book of them, which we will have to return the next day to collect the autographed version.
From the CKS Memorial Hall, we had a good view of the Taipei 101 and we spend some time at the garden there taking photos before we walked over. At 101, you are only limited access to the first 5 floors and subsequent levels require us to pay. 101 was one of those high end departmental stores, lots of branded boutiques as expected of the exclusiveness it's trying to create so with us being the wrong target crowd, we didn't stayed or shopped long. As it was still daytime, we figured it wasn't that nice a view from the top and decided against going up, so we went to New York New York but it turned out to be just another departmental store. Hmm, we were recommended food here but we couldn't find any restaurant that was within our budget so we settled lunch at the food court. The thing about Taipei food court are that the prices aren't exactly cheap, hmm, comparable to Singapore but the portions are huge! They serve lots of hot plate / western food / hot plate stuff which was quite good actually.
From there, we headed to WuFenPu, the wholesale market place and as described by friends who had been there before, its really for girls, perhaps 1 out of 10-15 stores are stocked with male stuff. The stuff here probably just abit cheaper compared to Shihlin or XMT or elsewhere unless you buy more, though compared to those places, the stuff here are probably more varied I guess. Streets were small and crowded with all the people and clothes displayed outside yet there were still motorcycles weaving in and out through the crowd, with their pullcart of shopping behind. Scary!
Anyway, we headed off to RaoHe at around 6+, the night market was located across WuFenPu and though it isn't that big as compared to Shihlin, it has mainly food here and definitely some interesting stuff. Although, there seemed to be an overabundance of 臭豆腐 stalls! There are like 4-5 stalls at the entrance alone? Gah... damn smelly, not much to shop already so we just walked around, eat.. and walked back to TP 101 to take the MRT back to the hotel.
While walking back, saw a few binglang stalls, we didn't try the betel nuts, and hardly get to see any binlangxishi in our so far 7 days here.. of those that we did see in Taipei or Kaohsiung hardly looked like they dolled up or if they do, ermm, weren't exactly the SYT that we thought they will be. Anyway, hmm, yup something we didn't try. It doesn't look that nice though, especially after they spit it on the floor, leaving some reddish brown stain.. zz. More importantly, 7 days down.. one last one to go!!! =)
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