Friday, January 7, 2011

Taipei, Taiwan - Ximen Ding

“各位乘客,往台北开往的快车即将启程,请各位乘客到三号月台登车,谢谢”

Standing in front of the LCD screening the train schedules in ZuoYing high speed train station, leaving from Kaohsiung to Taipei. A 90 minutes train with the speed of 300km/hr, that's real fast! Since when our KTM would upgrade to 300km/hr?! God knows...!

Taipei!!! Backed after 14 months! Hardly remembered what I had eaten and done during the last trip! Checked in to a nice hotel, went out to take a walk around the city. The hotel located in a wholesale region, all shops are selling goods for wholesale, pretty good place to shop!

Walking down the street, we smelled the frying fragrance lying on our senses! Spotted! There're two stalls setting at the end of the street, selling spring onion cake and something like the roti canai. Well, the roti canai didn't attract us of course, but not the spring onion! Remember how fantastic the spring onion was in Kaohsiung night market?!

What's best in a Sunday evening?! Ximen Ding! One of the most "happening" place in Taipei! Arrived at the MRT station, saw a HUGE crowd in that area! Where were all these people come from?! I was standing at the MRT station watching the crowd, taking this picture and thought "okay, let's go back, we've seen XimenDing! Would I be able to breathe if I go down there?!"

Went through the crowd, suddenly thinking of having a nice cool and pleasant dessert for the afternoon. 杨记花生玉米冰, one of my favourite dessert in Taiwan, have to report myself there every time in Taipei! It was a 16 degree Celsius afternoon (almost evening), M didn't want to have cold stuff so I ate the whole bowl by myself! Love the taste of the white peanut as always, the sweetness of the corn is just nice! It would be fantastic if eating that during summer!

Owww...I want it now, it's freaking hot here! Where's the snow?


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