On this day, we finally proceeded to Taipei!!! This is the part that I've been anticipating the most throughout my whole trip! But who knew it'd start raining from this day till the end of our trip, which was also the whole of our Taipei stay..... :(
We foresaw that we'd be travelling often via their MRT so we bought their EasyCard. Things were made easier for me whenever I travel with Zach because he's the one who does everything while my job was to wait for him to snap photos of everything. HAHAH! Kidding.
Headed to our hotel at Ximen station - Westgate Hotel - which is just 1 minute walk from the station. It's rlly that convenient!!!! That being said, it's also expensive and the interior design is quite atas too! I saw this hotel on a third party website and thought it'd be good if we could at least have a stay in a good hotel during this trip. So yep, it costs us about SGD770 in total for this hotel. The interior design looks like this. It's all the way below though.
Anyway, because it was raining heavily and we were famished, we decided to go Taipei Underground Mall//QSquare. It was recommended by our cabbie back in Taichung. According to him, the Taipei Underground Mall is huge and has many things to shop and buy to which we disagreed (after spending our time there). The clothing aren't for our ages so there's rlly NOTHING there for us to buy. Ok lah, at least I bought another few pairs of socks there. Not bad already.
Settled our lunch at a foodcourt and we both just kept quiet//used our phones while waiting for the food to be ready because we were deadbeat!
My noodle is so yummy for an exhausted and hungry girl. Even Baby agreed that mine tasted nicer than his. Hahah!
Done with our wandering and meal, and we decided to head back to Ximending and spent some time at The Red House before we started our shopping spree opposite.
It's very normal that people use umbrella with the handle in Taiwan. So we decided to blend in and bought a white translucent brolly right before we checked into our hotel room. I fell in love w that brolly at first sight! I love this kind of brolly, and dislike the ones we bring out in Singapore, because I don't have to be afraid of injuring myself when keeping the umbrella. Yes, I got kiap-ed a few times before when closing the small umbrella and that's why I'm never seen with small umbrella when I'm out.
We shopped all the way till 8plus and chanced upon this cafe called Oyami cafe and decided to give it a try. Anyway, this cafe is located inside Ximending. We saw it on Internet about this cafe but didn't find it with intention of trying. But it was just so nice that we walked past this cafe thus if one were to ask me the exact location, I rlly dk how to answer them. Hahahah!
As mentioned previously, the cafes in Taiwan have this policy of each customer has to order one drink each. So this time, we got smarter (and perhaps I wasn't feeling hungry at all). We ordered on main and dessert apart from the drink policy thingy.
Went for a walk arnd Ximending and headed back to our hotel for an early rest. That's all. Goodnight.
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| Finally reached TPE agn!! |
We foresaw that we'd be travelling often via their MRT so we bought their EasyCard. Things were made easier for me whenever I travel with Zach because he's the one who does everything while my job was to wait for him to snap photos of everything. HAHAH! Kidding.
Headed to our hotel at Ximen station - Westgate Hotel - which is just 1 minute walk from the station. It's rlly that convenient!!!! That being said, it's also expensive and the interior design is quite atas too! I saw this hotel on a third party website and thought it'd be good if we could at least have a stay in a good hotel during this trip. So yep, it costs us about SGD770 in total for this hotel. The interior design looks like this. It's all the way below though.
Anyway, because it was raining heavily and we were famished, we decided to go Taipei Underground Mall//QSquare. It was recommended by our cabbie back in Taichung. According to him, the Taipei Underground Mall is huge and has many things to shop and buy to which we disagreed (after spending our time there). The clothing aren't for our ages so there's rlly NOTHING there for us to buy. Ok lah, at least I bought another few pairs of socks there. Not bad already.
Settled our lunch at a foodcourt and we both just kept quiet//used our phones while waiting for the food to be ready because we were deadbeat!
My noodle is so yummy for an exhausted and hungry girl. Even Baby agreed that mine tasted nicer than his. Hahah!
Done with our wandering and meal, and we decided to head back to Ximending and spent some time at The Red House before we started our shopping spree opposite.
It's very normal that people use umbrella with the handle in Taiwan. So we decided to blend in and bought a white translucent brolly right before we checked into our hotel room. I fell in love w that brolly at first sight! I love this kind of brolly, and dislike the ones we bring out in Singapore, because I don't have to be afraid of injuring myself when keeping the umbrella. Yes, I got kiap-ed a few times before when closing the small umbrella and that's why I'm never seen with small umbrella when I'm out.
We shopped all the way till 8plus and chanced upon this cafe called Oyami cafe and decided to give it a try. Anyway, this cafe is located inside Ximending. We saw it on Internet about this cafe but didn't find it with intention of trying. But it was just so nice that we walked past this cafe thus if one were to ask me the exact location, I rlly dk how to answer them. Hahahah!
As mentioned previously, the cafes in Taiwan have this policy of each customer has to order one drink each. So this time, we got smarter (and perhaps I wasn't feeling hungry at all). We ordered on main and dessert apart from the drink policy thingy.
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| Baby's Mixed Fruit Tea |
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| Banana and Chocolate Waffle |
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| Did they think this was for Baby instead? |
Went for a walk arnd Ximending and headed back to our hotel for an early rest. That's all. Goodnight.