My Review

A day of shopping at Taipei Main Station So it's just food and shop and food. Started the day with breakfast in hotel.  Light Breakfast @ Hotel. Quick walk across the Huashan 1914 Creative Park. Our only destination for the day: Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Taipei . First thing: Eat at food court at B1 before shopping!  We had Cheese Cutlet ( NT250 ) After shopping inside the mall, we walked around 3 mins to this place called  北北车  for it's braised pork rice. (At the recommendation from the Porter staff) It's nice! NT 150 for 2 bowls of Braised Pork rice, 1 soup and 1 braised tofu. 北北车 And here comes the drinks! I wanted to look for the Oolong Tea Project as I have been seeing outlets of them wherever I went. And tada! Indeed there was yet another outlet just around the corner. At the service crew recommendations for a lighter version of tea, I got the Spring Oolong tea for NT35 . Right around the corners were many cart food seller, and I couldn't resist my fav...

A revisit to Tamsui.  We started our day with breakfast at hotel before heading out. We couldn't resist the egg crepe temptation so we went for one before we proceed to the train station. Egg crepe Soy milk Rice Wrap with Egg and You tiao  Traveling to Tamsui was easy. Head for MRT station, and proceed to change to the red line heading toward Tamsui and there we were.  Been to Tamsui, so it was easy to get around Tamsui Old Street (Some photo taking + ate street food + souvenirs hunting) before we proceeded to their shopping centre nearby.  souvenirs hunting Snacking time This is the MUST TRY milk mochi. Every time I visited Tamsui, this is my MUST-HAVE! Shopping Centre. There was yet another NET store and we bought more! After shopping, we took MRT back to Taipei Main Station for some Tendon! Tendon @ Ten Kichi Ya Q-Square After dinner, when we were heading back to hotel, happened to chanced upon live performance of musician/singer  0sensen  a ...

At friend recommendations, we made an online reservation for a steamboat buffet prior to travelling for the weekend lunch slot at Ximending, Mala Hot Pot (馬辣頂級麻辣鴛鴦火鍋 漢口).  From our hotel, there were 2 mrt stations that we can go to reach Ximen station. We bought the easycard at the MRT kisok. But the machine only takes exact amount of nt$100 for the physical card which we didn't have. Quickly changed notes at the station counter to purchase the easycard + top up nt$100. But since we were earlier than our reservation time, we went around for some sweet treats. Yang Ji Peanut Corn Ice After the sweet treat, it was nearing the time for our buffet! Yay! It was weekend lunch and we opted for the lowest tier nt798, approx Nt1700 There were 3 tiers, with each grade up having more options for different premium beef cut/grade.  Time limit of 120mins. Wide varieties of meats, vegetable, drinks and 8 wonderful choices of  Haagen-daz ice cream selection. Ordering of meat ...

Year 2024! Finally got to go Taiwan again! We touched down at Taoyuan International Airport around 4pm+.  Egate Had registered via online for the Egate enrollment. While queuing for the egate, we asked the officer who advised to go to the an immigration counter located behind the Egate section where we got a stamp and then we can proceed to queue at the Egate. But we weren't able to get through the Egate (so were a few others) so we were diverted to this "speedy" counter where we were cleared for entry ultimately. Getting to hotel We hired private transport with our hotel arrangement for NT $1300 which was approx. 55mins ride. Before heading out, we tried our luck for the lucky dip but nah.. didn't win anything though :(                  Spacious, bright and neat After a fast and smooth check-in to Ambience Hotel Taipei , we walked around the corners. Prior to this trip, I did googling and saw there were many plac...