Taiwan/Taipei - Day 1 - Taipei101 and Ximending

It's been a while! I want to blog all the major events in my life so that I can look back at the year and think 'wow, I've done so much this year'. Kinda hard to blog about what happens at work because everything's hush hush, so have to make do with my leisure activities (more interesting to talk about anyway)

So I just came back from a 5D4N trip to Taipei with the gf, so I'll blog about the individual days, once a day starting from now.

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Day 1
We flew Tigerair to taipei, which frankly is shit and the seats are really uncomfortable. The full recline is equivalent to the normal angle of a sitting chair, so you can imagine the slightly less than 90deg angle of the fully upright chair. Very uncomfortable 4+hrs.

Anyway, our first order of business was to find some tauhway which jolenezhong said was 'damn good'... so we made our way to Eslite... and found out it was the wrong one -_- Google maps shows an eslite near Zhongxiao dunhua station, which was near taipei101, so we thought it's the one jolene went. Turns out, it isn't.

SH managed to buy an interesting book from there, so it wasn't all to waste. We walked over to taipei101, and to our delight, their basement food court had the daohui!

The traditional daohui in Taipei is different from SG's in that there are much more ingredients than just beancurd. The minimum option is beancurd with peanuts, and even then it's 50% of each ingredient, unlike in SG where the beancurd dominates the dish.

This version was some jelly + peanuts + daohui. Pretty yummy! For about 50 TWD I believe.

I think she looks damn cute here so I'm posting this lol. This is the Taipei 101 mascot!

After this we headed back to Ximending to explore the night market.

A Zong mee sua, a popular stall in ximending. It doesn't have oysters, but uses scallops/squid instead I think? Fairly tasty. But according to our taxi driver, this is a ripoff. Stay tuned for real oyster mee sua in Day 5's post.

Some fried meat from the stall next to the meesua stall. Pretty good! i liked the swordfish belly and the pork. 

We also had chachago milk tea, mango milk and ji pa from Hotstar (honestly, the ji pa wasn't fantastic. I think the Singapore's shihlin street snacks is better). Yumz. 

Didn't take at picture of the mango milk, but I think it's really worth it? There were SO many mango cubes in the cup, practically half the cup. And they were all juicy and sweet and soft. Why are the mangoes in Taiwan so good?

And that rounds up the first day! Was a pretty short day, because we only landed in Taipei at about 1++pm.