Ok, so I am back from Taiwan.. Quite sad about leaving that place. LOL. I wish I was back there. Enough said. Anyway, I had a great time there, ate non-stop and played non-stop. The hotel I stayed at was really cool and I would strongly recommend it to every couple. It's so sweet! :D The TV was great too. Haha.. So many channels and even when Dearie and I went back late to the hotel, we could not resist the temptation of the TV. Heehee.. We went to the Snake Alley night market on the first night there after reaching the hotel at about 7 plus and dumping our luggage in the room. So begins our food journey. We had effing lots of stuff, we were so stuffed but we still forced ourselves to complete the night with the ice in a ice and juice shop that is supposedly famous for its juice and ice. Duhz. But we didn't regret it. The 八宝冰 was super nice. :D
On the second day, we went to the Taipei City Hall area, where we had our first fun and luck with the UFO catcher machines in the underground shopping mall, we caught a Mickey Mouse glove! So cute. Then, we went to the rest of the shopping malls in that area to window shop as the things there were really too expensive. However, everything was extremely nice and alluring. If only we had the money. LOL. The malls were impressive and super big. Kind of like a few Vivocities grouped together? Hahaha.. We did buy some goodies from the malls, that were the only things affordable. The rest were like branded clothes, shoes, etc that cost a few hundred bucks per item BUT they were really nice! We then went to Mr. J's restaurant where we had yummy food, which included escargots, salmon steak, cod roe spaghetti, cheesecake and red tea. :D At night, we were at 忠孝复兴 stretch, it was kind of like Orchard road but with lots more shops. We visited two of the huge SOGO departmental stores there and I bought my mom a mother's day gift, exfoliating cream which cost SGD 75 but they were having Mother's day promo, hence I had two tubes for the price of one!! It was really a steal. The cream was good and I was given a short and good beauty treatment. :D Eye collagen masks, moisturizing and whitening essence and exfoliation. Cool. Then walking on down the street, I bought a Mickey Mouse red bag that caught both Dearie's eyes and mine when we stepped into the store. Hearts it. We also went to the Hello Kitty restaurant to take pictures and sightsee. LOL.
西门町, 五分埔, 饶河夜市 were the three stops on the third day. Dearie and I bought a lot of clothes and stuff that day. I shall not go into details but it was another day of chiong-ing and eating. Oh, the most interesting part of this day was that we went to the Modern Toilet restaurant! LOL. So damn funny.
On the fourth day, we went up 杨明山 and had a SUPER tiring day climbing stairs and walking. It was a tremondously good exercise for Dearie and I, we both had eaten so much previously. We missed lunch because we were too tired to look for a place to eat and we were walking and climbing so much that we kind of forgot about it too. Haha.. In the end, we caught the last bus down 杨明山 to the main stop to transfer a bus down to 士林夜市. Luckily, the people told us about the last bus thing. If not, we would have to go down the mountain on foot! Imagine how long that will take. Probably 6 hours or something. On the way down to 士林, I slept while Dearie kept a lookout for the stop. LOL. I was so tired. Oh, and Dearie lost my jacket on 杨明山. Guess that's a momento from me.. We were like hungry dogs when we reached the night market and we ate quite a lot. Then, we played the UFO catcher thing again at different shops, there were so many of them around and they looked so tempting!! Dearie caught a 'Burberry' bear keychain for me! The shopkeeper was so nice, he came to rearrange the stuff so that we could catch it! Which we did on the first try after he rearranged the thing for us. :D We shopped quite a bit in 士林 too.
We went to 淡水 on the fifth day and spent another day walking, shopping and eating. Lol. Went to the Fisherman's Wharf and the famous Lover's Bridge of course. We reached the Lover's Bridge nearing sunset time, so it was beautiful. (^.^) Took lots of pictures! After the day's walking, we headed back to our hotel to put down our shopping and went to Tamago Ya in 西门町 for dinner. Dearie and I then went back to 五分埔 to spend the rest of our money. Dearie was the one who could not seem to shop enough there. LOL. We went back to the hotel at about 1 am and packed our luggage to prepare for going home the next day. :( We wanted to go KTV but we were so damn shagged after two consecutive days of walking and climbing so much. Hahahaha..
So that's about my TW trip. So much fun, love Taipei so much. Missed it even before I left it. I MUST GO BACK THERE!!!
After coming back, I didn't have much appetite to eat anything. Probably overate in TW or something. BUT, the BIG BUT comes, I am gorging on food today again!!! Sianz. I ate so much junk today. :( Icecream, peanut butter etc. And I can't believe I ate satay and ketupat with all that fattening sauce like only about an hour ago at 11.30 pm? ARGH!!! I must DIET to lose all that weight gained from the trip. Stupid me and my BIG MOUTH. Excercise!! Run!! Run all that flabs away!! STRICT DIET! Gambatte!! I MUST DO IT. Stop eating you stupid girl. (-.-")
