Jioufen Tea House (九份茶坊)

When visiting Jiufen (九份), taking a break and dropping by the Jioufen Tea House (九份茶坊) to enjoy the beautiful misty scenery around the mountains and sipping the fragrant Oolong Tea of the season...

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Jioufen (Jiufen - 九份) - Shihfen (十分) Route

Jioufen (九份) is a nice place for both sightseeing and to enjoy high tea / coffee. It's one of my favourite place to be to relax and enjoy life while going on a trip. Most importantly, to avoid the...

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Hua Xi Jie Night Market (华西街夜市)

The night market stretches from Guang Zhou Jie (广州街) all the way up to Section 2 of Gui Yang Jie (贵阳街二段) with a length of about 352m. It is the most prominent night market in Xi Men area yet not as...

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Red House Creative Market (西门红楼创意市集)

Although the Red House looks rather plain and simple most of the time, there's actually a creative market held in front of it only during weekends around late morning till evening time. As I didn't...

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Carrefour (家乐福) - Cup Noodles & Grocery

If you do visit Taiwan, don't forget to try out their cup noodles as I felt that the cup noodles from Taiwan is best tasting cup noodles I've ever eaten. Most importantly, you can find all kind of instant...

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Fish Almond (Ikan Bilis - 小鱼杏仁) @ Family Mart

My favorite snack in Taiwan was the Imei Brand Fish Almond (小鱼杏仁) which I got from Family Mart. In fact there are many other snacks available. For almond snacks, there's 2 types: Fish Almond (小鱼杏仁) ...

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Watson's (屈臣氏)

Watson's in Xi Men area (西门町) is a rather huge place,  it is about 4 storeys high with various products, from facial mask, makeup to common household products. It is a place I felt is worth...

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Daiso at Cheng Ping 116 (诚品116)

Perhaps not as big as the one at 信义区 (Xin Yi Area), still the Daiso at Xi Men Ding's Cheng Ping 116 is pretty big as well. Most importantly, it's located at a easily accessible building at the heart...

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Hello Kitty Store

If you are a fan of Hello Kitty, you might want to drop by to take a look at what's in store. I saw a nice camera pouch for sale in the store but since I had already got a new one in Singapore, I decided...

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Sophisca (菓风小铺)

Sophisca (菓风小铺) sells various interesting items such as Xiao Long Bao (Mashmallow), Poison like Medication (Sweet), Pad  (Sweet), Condom (Sweet), etc. They also sell seasonal products that are...

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Yang Ji Ice Peanuts & Corn (杨记花生玉米冰)

花生玉米加三圆冰 (TWD $80) The All-In-Mixed Ice as shown in the photo above is one that you should give a try as it contains peanuts, corn, yam ball, sweet potato ball and rice ball, sweet tasting and nice...

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Cheng Du Ice Starfruit (成都杨桃冰)

The Cheng Du Ice Starfruit (成都杨桃冰) is one of the recommendation in the guide book. I would say that it is certainly worth a try to share a small cup. As it has been marinated with salt, it no longer...

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Duck Meat @ 鸭肉扁 (Ya Rou Bian)

The one and only unique Duck Meat store is located in Xi Men Ding (西门町) Area. The duck meat had a unique taste that is not cooked via the common braised or roasted way that we get to eat everywhere...

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Ay Chung Flour Rice Noodle (阿宗面线)

With the help of the guide book, we managed to have a taste of the famous Ah Chung Flour Rice Noodles (In Singish, we will call it Ah Zhong Mee Sua), it has a rather thick soup full of noodles and the...

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Tamagoya (蛋蛋屋)

Tamagoya's Egg certainly tasted nice. Just remember to moderate your intake. :) For me, I didn't exactly finished my share as I ordered too much. Dear ordered: Omelette with Chicken I ordered: Omelette...

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Miku Coffee (米加咖啡)

Breakfast at Miku Coffee (米加咖啡) comes with Magazines Reading Session while waiting for our food Service at Miku Coffee was excellent! With the enthusiastic and very friendly sales man bringing...

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Fong Da Coffee (蜂大咖啡)

I suspect that it is due to the special coffee making process that it produces better tasting coffee. My partner felt that the coffee is one of the best after tasting various other coffee in the area....

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Xi Men Ding (西门町)

Xi Men Ding (西门町) is probably something like our Bugis Street. Filled with small little stores along the streets and they have a big shopping center at the center of the street (Cheng Ping / 诚品116). Someone told me that it's something like Orchard Road but based on the items on sale in the area, I would think that Bugis is a better fit. How to...

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Easy Card - Taiwan

Similar to our ezLink Card in Singapore, Taiwan had their very own Easy Card where they can use to take almost all the common transports available in the city. The startup cost of the EasyCard is...

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Taiwan Voice & Data Mobile Plans

If you are interested in getting a Taiwan line with either voice or data mobile plan, try FarEasTone (远传) or Taiwan Mobile (台湾大哥大). Where the former offers overall cheaper calling service, the former offers better coverage. For data plan wise, both offers the same rate: ...

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Taipei, Here I come!

The lovely looking cloud welcomed me to Taipei I woke up at around 4am on the 18th Oct, 2011 to catch my 7am flight to Taipei on Jetstar! Although excited about my trip, I still felt very sleepy and...

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