We took an early morning flight so we arrived in Taipei at about 2pm. Our plane landed at their budget Terminal so we had to take a shuttle bus to their international Terminal. Bought a bus ticket which brought us to Taipei Main Train Station, which was great! because our hotel was near the train station. Our bus ride took about 1.5hrs.
The hotel we stayed in was Hotel Puri. It is a very simple no frill hotel. Don't expect too much for a budget hotel. Cant really find an image of the hotel right now. But if you are looking for a simple hotel just to rest, Hotel Puri is quite a good option. It is about 5 mins walk away from the MRT. It is clean and pretty much a decent hotel for the price and location. Take exit Y13 if you are staying there!
Right beside the hotel is this SUPER GOOD pepper bun. I don't exactly fancy pepper. But this is really good. We got it when it was fresh out of the oven so please try it when you are near the area.
After that we went to XiMenDing just to walk around and we tried to do some shopping!!!! really disappointed though. cause many people told me the shopping there was good and trendy. But I felt like there weren't any interesting stuff and the prices are thereabout the same as Singapore. So we didnt buy anything while we were there.
But we did chance upon mango ice! as expected, it was good but nothing much fantastic about it.
HOWEVER, we saw this really interesting theme restaurant which many people mentioned about it in blogs. It is the toilet bowl restaurant! The entire theme and design of the restaurant is great. But the food, not so great. Their pasta was disappointing but the hot pot was not too bad. It was worth the experience but most probably wont be going back again. So for all you people who may not have try this restaurant, you can consider this place.
WONT recommend it, but it is an interesting concept.
But i think the highlight of that day got to be the SHILIN night market.
The shopping there was SUPER GOOD. It's like our pasar malam here in Singapore, but BIGGER and BETTER. definitely more varieties. I went to SHILIN market 2 times in this trip. I guess you can tell how much I like that place. Prices there are definitely cheaper than XIMENDING and they have more unique stuff as well as more street food! The street food is awesome here! Would definitely go back to ShiLin if i get the chance to go Taipei again.
obviously too lazy to write about the rest of my trip. Till next time!
