Taiwan: The Land of Non-stop Eating (Part III)

Procrastinating definitely makes blogging about my Taiwan trip that much harder. I can hardly remember anything at this point. No worries, I wrote some stuff down so you’ll get the full version whether you like it or not. Haha.

Here goes.

Day 3

On Monday, our last full day in Taiwan, we decided to start our morning by going to Din Tai Fung again. Mmm...it was just as good the second time around! We then took a taxi to Long Shan Temple. Everyone was “bai sun”-ing when we were there. K, that is not a real word, but I can’t be bothered to think of the word not in Cantonese at the moment. Wait, that didn’t make sense either. Anyway! Yes, it was a nice temple. Very colorful and detailed.

After the temple, we went to Miramar Mall (yes, another mall) to watch The Departed, the American remake of Infernal Affairs. It was actually pretty good, and I thought Leonardo Dicaprio was great in it, but I still prefer the original Chinese version. After watching a movie in a foreign land, what do you do next? Go grocery shopping, of course. I’m not kidding. We went to the supermarket in the mall and bought everything that looked tasty. Um, hello, we’re probably never gonna be in Taiwan again, so it was TOTALLY necessary! Yes, we each got tons of snacks to bring back with us. So much so, that we decided to cab it back to our hotel to drop off our groceries before heading out again. Hahahaha.

After dropping off our groceries, we headed out to the Taipei 101 area to do more shopping. The only things we bought were Kiehls products! Haha, we’re so American. Anyhoo, after that, we headed for another 24-hour dim sum place that was recommended by our hotel concierge. It seems like all dim sum places in Taipei are called something-star, ie) Nature Star, City Star, Big Star...wait, nevermind, isn’t that the name of a Carls Jr. burger? Oops.

Our final stop of our final night in Taipei was to Shi Lin Market again. We had to have at least one more boba and one more shaved ice before we left Taiwan. The boba was good, but I think I still prefer the ones back home, as Taiwanese people seem to prefer theirs somewhat weak? I dunno. We decided to try a new shaved ice place and it turned out to be the best idea ever! The owner spoke English to us and recommended the mango shaved ice with fruit. That’s right...the ice itself was mango-flavored!! It was soooooo good! I want another one right now! Mmmmm.

Day 4

This was a traveling day so not much happened at all. Our Chinese tour guide made us stop by a touristy-Japanese-catered place to buy souvenirs or whatnot before we headed to the airport. The place mainly sold brand name stuff...as if we’d all forgotten to buy our Fendi purses during our stay in Taiwan. Whew! Thank goodness I got to buy my Vuitton bag there...my trip to Taiwan wouldn’t have been complete w/o it! J/k. Yes, so Jeff and I decided to ditch and get our dose of caffeine at Starbucks instead. After that we finally made it to the Chinese restaurant, I mean airport. Then came much confusion b/c our sketchy tour guide left us and promptly disappeared, but everything worked out and we were finally able to get our omiyage (souvenirs) and board our flight.

K, so that FINALLY concludes my entries on Taiwan. Are you happy? Oh yeah, pictures, huh? Well, you’ll just have to wait another month for that. Haha. Yaay, another trip, another stamp!