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台北 Taipei - Day 05: Ximending

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Our last day in Taipei! Since we don't really have much time left, all we could do was to do last minute shopping.  We checked out from the hostel at about 9+, and headed to Ximending for breakfast and shopping.  We went to Golden Flower for some Taiwanese breakfast toast. It was very crowded man ! We met 2 Hong Kong ladies there; they were standing beside us and we got to know one another as I told them that they could get plastic gloves so as to not dirty their hands. Haha! Our breakfast for 2 As it was really crowded (it's a Sunday and this stall is quite a famous one), we waited for about near 1-hour for the egg and cheese sandwich. We didn't manage to take a photo of the sandwich from another corner of the table as they were taken up by the 2 Hong Kong ladies. But because we helped the 2 Hong Kong ladies just now, so they let us to take photos of their sandwich (we ordered the same sandwich)! Arrangement done up by the two kind-hearted Hong

台北 Taipei - Day 04: 十分大瀑布 Shifen Waterfall, 十分老街 Shifen Old Street, 九份 Jiufen

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Welcome to my Taipei day 04 (second last day of my Taipei trip) post! Here's the itinerary for day 04: 陳記專業蚵仔麵線  十分大瀑布 Shifen Waterfall  十分老街 Shifen Old Street 九份 Jiufen As my friend had a craving for oyster mee sua (which we didn't have since the time we arrived in Taiwan), we went to have oyster mee sua (or some people called it as orh ah mee sua or  蚵仔面线 ) as our breakfast today!  Speaking of oyster mee sua, forget about  Ay Chung Rice Noodles 阿宗麵線  lah ! The standard wasn't as before... Try  陳記專業蚵仔麵線 instead! 陳記專業蚵仔麵線 A very small shop among the line of shops 陳記專業蚵仔麵線   No. 166, Section 3, Heping West Road,    Wanhua District, Taipei City, Taiwan 108   Opening Hours:   6.30AM to 7.30PM (daily)   How to get there:   Transfer to blue line from Taipei Main station    to Longshan Temple station   Follow map on how to walk over Went there at around 9+ in the morning, and we hardly get seats and there was a long queue! But it was a Saturday an

台北 Taipei - Day 03: 貓空 MaoKong

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For day 03 of our stay in Taipei, we spent the whole day at 貓空 MaoKong...  As we wanted to spend more time at  貓空  MaoKong, which was the only plan for today, we went to the MOS Burger cafe to have a quick breakfast. Ah  yes! Please bring insect repellent or  lots  of mosquito patches! No matter how cold the weather is...! I had their Wagyu beef burger set. The beef patty was juicy and chewy! And their nuggets were flavourful! Anyway, off we went to MaoKong! 貓空 MaoKong The super cute panda signboard at Taipei Zoo station We took the  brown line to Taipei Zoo station and keep walking straight from Exit 2 for about 10mins, and there we saw the MaoKong Gondola from afar! En route to the Maokong Gondola Anyway the path you walked from Taipei Zoo station to the Maokong Gondola, there are many different animal paw prints with the name of the animals on the floor... And they are actually quite interesting! Like some paw prints just looked like flower s