Taipei Trip [2009]

1st time in Taipei for 5 days, free and easy. It was fun, the food there is nice too. Went in February and spent my birthday in Taipei






Day 1
Reached Taiwan in the evening.
We ate BBQ steamboat for dinner along the street in Xi Men Ding, after which we went to Longshan temple and walked the market along snake alley. Went to Wan Nian building for to begin our shopping spree

Day 2
Spent a day in Taiwan Zoo, after we headed to Taipei 101 Building.
Went to a big bookstore, where we had a nice,hot coffee at Starbucks before continuing our journey. After that, we went to tour around the big bookstore for 1 or 2 hours
Then we headed towards Taipei 101 to get a nice of Taipei from above
After that, we went to Wu Fen Pu wholesale market for dinner (which we had the 1st taste of Taiwan's chicken cutlet. It was very big and nice. ~ wanted to have it again)
Shopping around the wholesale market till late, headed back to Xi Men Ding which we had supper before heading back to the hotel

Day 3
Started the day with a nice breakfast in McDonald's. Then, we headed to Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall. It was so cold, the wind is blowing strong on this day. HM is the only one who had the thinnest jacket and she was sneezing the whole day.We also saw a super long earthworm crawling on the ground.LoL
After that, we headed to Dan Shui Wharf, where the wind is blowing more stronger (it was freezing there). Then we headed back the MRT station, where we had a All-You-can-Eat buffet steamboat for less than $20 SGD per pax. I had a lot of lala there, PY was targeting to clear all the vegetables, ZH was targeting on the beefs and HM was targeting on the porks.LoL
Later, we headed down to Miramar Enterainment Park where i bought a new basketball. We toured around for 1 hour or so,then we headed down to Shi Lin Market. We had fried oyster, red bead soup and mango ice-cream. We headed to Taipei Main Station where i got to visit a gundam model kits shop. We walked around and headed back to our hotel to rest.

Day 4
Had a early breakfast at McDonald's again and we headed down to Xiao Ren Guo Theme Park. Inside consists the miniature on building around the world and there is also a small theme park for children. There is also an exhibit on Doramon. We had managed to grab a toy (like UFO catcher) here. Later, we had a long journey back to city (on bus, everyone was sleeping). We headed back to Taipei Main Station and shopped around. We also had our dinner in a Japanese restaurant. Then we headed back to Xi Men Ding early and walked through the streets of Xi Men Ding. We also had the onion pancake and chicken cutlet on the last night in Taipei.

Day 5
Prepared our stuffs for checking out of the hotel.Ate our breakfast in the hotel
After that, we headed down to the airport, where we waited for our flight back to Singapore.

Places Visited:
Xi Men Ding
Long Shan Temple + Snake Alley
Taipei Zoo
Taipei 101
Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall
Shi Lin Night Market
Dan Shui
Miramar Enterainment Park
Xiao Ren Guo (Miniature Museum)
Wu Fen Pu Wholesale Market
Wu Nian Building