Taiwan Trip 2014 Day 8 Taipei -> Shinkong Mitsukoshi (新光三越) -> Ximending (西門町) -> Shilin Night Market (士林夜市)

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ITINERARY

Day 1: Changi Airport > Taoyuan Airport > Sun Moon Lake 
Day 2: Sun Moon Lake > Cingjing  
Day 3: Cingjing > Taroko National Park > Hualien 
Day 4: Hualien 
Day 5: Hualien > Taipei (Huaxi Night Market)
Day 6: Taipei (Jiufen > Gongguan - Retail Outlet & Night Market)
Day 7: Taipei (Beitou > Tamsui)

Day 8: Taipei 台北 (Shinkong Mitsukoshi 新光三越 > Ximending 西門町 > Shilin Night Market 士林夜市)

Day 9: Taipei > Taoyuan Airport

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The hotspring must have worked its magic for I felt so energized as compared to yesterday!!

 Chicken Day? Started off with KFC breakfast and ended with Fried Chicken Cutlet!


We took a walk and ended up at 台北新光三越南西店三館1F. We were too early! "Parked" ourselves at the wooden framed sofa seats while we wait patiently for the store to open. There were people queuing already at the store entrance but we didn't join them as we were in the window shopping mode. 

 What caught my eyes was 8% Cafe's the ice cream. But I wait till after I finished my shopping in the mall before I went back and get their limited edition ice cream.



Limited Edition Ice Cream (Green Tea with Vanilla Bean)

We spent quite sometime walking before lunch time. 

Came across Ramen Kagetsu Arashi. 

Their serving sure is very generous.

Ramen @ Ramen Kagetsu Arashi (花月嵐拉麵) 

After lunch, we headed for Cosmed (康是美) to get the facial masks as there was some promotions going on. I wondered if the store sales personnel was amazed at how much we bought. 
As the branch we went to is near to our hotel, we went back to our hotel unload before we head for Ximending via Metro line again.

Crowded it was. I am surprised. First time visiting during the day and there was quite a lot of things going on. But what caught our eyes was yet another Porter store. Pretty amazed at the number of store Porter has in Taipei. 

Spent so much time walking around the shopping mall/shophouses and the hot weather got to us...Found a bar which was open for business at 5pm @ Ximending and settled down there for some rest, snacks and... TEA.. hee

Fried assorted platter with onion rings, fries, nuggets and squid?

Decided to make full use of our last day, we headed for shilin night market via cab.
Unlike previous few days, we were more into shopping, shopping and more shopping.

At shilin night market queuing for fried+grill chicken cutlet
The long queue for this fried +grill chicken cutlet

Piping hot~~

When you are at Taipei, you will never be bored or run out of ideas for fun.
In the day, explore around the shopping mall and at night, it would be the night markets!

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