Shopping and eating in another country! (Last part, I swear)

Our last full day in Taipei was pretty similar to our first day, so I will just go through it quickly! Well, as quickly as wordy Jeff can!

We started off the day with more Din Tai Feng...MMMMMMM! IT WAS SO GOOD! I don’t think they liked us much, though, as we took our time eating, and they are all about the speed there. They sort of kicked us out in the end, but I still love them! We then realized we were poor as fuck and needed to get more money exchanged...an easy enough thing, when there are like HUNDREDS of banks on one block in Taipei. However, we were retarded and left our passports in our hotel room. Thankfully the bank lady liked us and was able to take our gaijin cards, since they have our passport numbers on them. Yay racist Japanese people needing to identify us wide-eyed criminals!

After that we went to a temple (good tourists!), and it was actually interesting, even tho I am SICK of temples. They are different than Japanese and Korean ones, and have really amazing detailed work in their carvings/sculptures, etc. It was purty. We then went to another mall and saw The Departed, since it wont come to Japan for a million years. It was good! Infernal Affairs was better, but it was a good movie, and I actually thought Leonardo DiCaprio was good in it, even tho I hate him? Hmm, weird. We then were bigger losers and spent like 45 minutes in a Taiwanese grocery store getting food to bring back home! It was really quite sad, but at least we have foreign food now. Sad, we are LOSERS.

After that we did some more shopping, including a GHETTO Kiehl’s experience (sad, Kiehl’s cant be ghetto, I love it too much!!!), got some more late-night dim sum, then went back to the Shi Lin market for some wandering and dessert. We had the MOST amazing kakigori (shaved ice) EVER!!!!!! It was mango shaved ice, but the ice was actually made of mango milk rather than just water. SO GOOD!!!!!!! Sigh, I want more.

The next day we got harassed some more by the scary Japanese-speaking tour guide, bought some last-minute shit, and left Taipei to go back to boring Japan and boring school! SAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!

And yeah, that is our food-filled trip! Hmm, this summary was really boring, sorry! I actually have thoughts on the people/culture/etc, so I will post those later, as maybe they will actually be more interesting. Maybe ;)