Shopping and eating in another country! (Part Two)

So Sunday was our first full day in Taiwan, and we seriously went ALL OVER Taipei. Cindy and I are now the causes of global warming, as we took cabs everywhere! Taipei is really really big and spread out, so no matter where you go you are never near the next place? I don’t really get how that works, but yeah, every cab ride was really long. Sigh. Oh, well, we have ridden bikes for the last year, we can add some pollution once in a while (the excuse for driving for the rest of my life)!

So yeah, in the morning we went to Din Tai Fung, a famous restaurant chain in Taipei that is known for their steamed dumplings. Um, let me say that this place is AMAZING and you all need to go RIGHT NOW! It was sooooooooooooooo good. Everything they make is just fucking amazing. We were smart and went right when they opened, as when we left there was a HUGE mob waiting to get in (I am not even exaggerating!). God, it was good. I of course took pictures of the food (loser), so I will upload them eventually, but you can check out their website here if you want to.

After that we decided to be good tourists and went to the famous National Palace Museum. It was a really nice-looking museum and everything, but all of the stuff IN the museum was the same! Like, you can only see so many dishes and vases and stuff. I like museums just fine, but I prefer paintings and stuff, and the museum just didn’t have enough varied stuff for my taste. But oh, well, at least it was something other than shopping and eating! After that we went to Wufenpu, a garment market, that was far too trashy for both of us, so we quickly got the hell outta there. We are NOT market people!

We then cabbed it to Ximenting, a real shopping area, that looked EXACTLY like a shopping area we went to in Seoul! Like, seriously, it felt like we were in Korea. It was nice, though, and I got a Puma bag, yay. And we had a yummy kakigori dessert and AMAZING noodles! We were being all local-y, as a buncha Taiwanese people were waiting in line for them, so we decided we had to, too. Mmm, they were good.

That evening we made our way over to Taipei 101, the tallest building in the world. It is seriously the tallest building in the world for no reason whatsoever. Like, I highly doubt Taipei NEEDS a building that tall...ut at least it is well-designed! And it has THE FASTEST ELEVATOR EVER!!!!! We went up 80 stories in 30 seconds! It was CRAZY!!!!!

We did a bit more shopping after Taipei 101, then made our way to a restaurant for Jeff’s first dim sum experience! It was yummy, but the restaurant was like EMPTY except for three tables, and it was eerily quiet, yo. Like, way too quiet. But it was good! Yay, dim sum! Looking back, it might not have been a good idea to have a huge-ass dinner at 10 PM, but oh well. It was a good day! To be continued...