Oh, It's Love…

April 29 – May 03

5 days 4 nights in Taipei, what a whirlwind trip! 5 days is definitely not enough. I miss Taipei lots already!

//– WARNING: this post is image heavy –//


First time flying with EVA Air. Exciting news!

Hello Kitty @ Taipei TuoYuan Airport. A whole store dedicated to HK and all the airport goodness!

Flying over the clouds…. crazy colours! Alright, it’s just my phone being weird, but still, crazy colours!

Fahrenheit greeting us at the airport! How exciting! I was stoked to be in Taiwan at this point. haha

Eight Elephants Hostel – best ever! Very cozy place. Would definitely recommend it to all the travellers out there.

It was my first time staying at a hostel, and it was a superb experience at Eight Elephants. The staff were very friendly and they all spoke English quite well.

ShiDa Night Market. The super awesome thing about Eight Elephants is that it is quite close to ShiDa Night Market. It’s about 15 minutes walk away to all the great Taiwanese food goodness!

Mmhmm… red bean + green bean shaved ice! Even though it really wasn’t that hot at the time, the shaved ice was still awesome. That pile of ice… Dan and I barely finished it! And yes, this was our dinner.

The next day, we went to Taipei 101. Passing through the Taipei Main Station, who did we see? Leehom, of course! I *had* to stop and take a picture. Craziness!

Walking towards the 101! We could see it from miles away.

On top of the world! Or at least on top of Asia-ish (the new building in Dubai takes the crown for tallest in the world/Asia).

Day 2 starts off at XiMenDing area. Lots of little boutiques and lots of street food. And lots of teenagers. I felt old walking through this area. Fortunately, there was no celebrity autograph sessions this saturday, so we got lucky. It could’ve been even more crowded!

At the North Gate! It really wasn’t a huge tourist attraction, but we saw it on a street map and decided to explore a bit. Jumping pictures are so epic! <3! Late that night, we went to another night market. Shilin Night Market... it was packed. The streets were filled with people. More eating for us!

Day 3, I finally woke up early enough to try out one of the breakfast places near Eight Elephants – the sticky rice roll. It was made fresh to order. It had crunchy fritter(油條), sour vegetable (酸菜), soy-sauce egg (滷蛋) and fake meat floss (肉鬆, i asked to make sure it’s vegetarian-friendly).The picture’s all blurry, but trust me, it was absolutely amazing.

After a full day of walking around, dinner was at Ding Tai Fung (鼎泰豐). We stumbled upon this place while walking around 東區. Man, this business operates at maximum efficiency level! When we asked for a table, hey told us the wait was about 10-15 minutes long. The hostess also handed us our table number, the menu and the order form. By the time we decided what to eat and checked off the order form, they were ready with our table. They took our order form and asked us to wait for a bit as they were still cleaning off the previous table. When we were finally seated, we were served hot tea immediately. Our food came about 5 minutes after we sat down! We were quite hungry already, so we devoured the plate of veggie dumplings. The ninja-waitresses were very attentive and they continuous poured us tea whenever we were done the cup. They would come out of nowhere! Stealthy! Just writing about it makes me drool.

Time to leave Taipei! I’m gonna miss ya, but rest assure, I’ll be back soon. ♥