First day in Taiwan

First day in taiwan and we are welcomed by a warm and hot weather of 35 degrees.. it was so hot and dry that even we from Singapore think its not quite bearable, we tried to stay indoors most of the time.  As we were staying in Hyatt, near the convention centre and opposite the Taipei 101, Taipei 101 was very much like ION kind of department store whereby it houses lotsa international brands.  As we were not familiar with Taipei, we only moved around Taipei 101 as well as the Sun Tse Sun memorial park, whereby we happened to witness the flag keeping ceremony and it was quite an experienced seeing the soldiers marching in their 'signature' slow motion marches..

We met Charles (our Taiwan BPR colleague) at 7pm, whereby he brought us to see the 'real' taiwan.. The part of Taiwan that never sleeps.  The interesting activities began when we went to the Lao He night market whereby we tried almost every stuff we saw, we ate as we walk.  We tried the famous 'lok lok', ice cream wrapped in 'bo pia' skin, 'yan shui' chicken, fried crabs, seasoned mangoes and guava, as well as 'yao chai dun' pork ribs..

After that Charles went on to bring us to try the famous mangoes ice with ice cream at 'yongkang' street and followed by visiting the 24 hours book store whereby alot of 'yan daos' and 'chio bus' like to linger around haha.. 

Taipei really never sleeps, and we have finally been to the right place where locals visit today.  According to Charles, shilin night market is not really a place for locals but more for tourists. And staying in international hotels are a silly thing to do..  he recommended 'motels' whereby its locally built and is labelled '7' stars and is so much cheaper if we wanted to return to taiwan in the future.  I think i really like Taiwan, however, its not a nice place for kids as they cannot tahan to walk long enough to enjoy the fun to explore around.. hmm.. hope i get to come back again in the near future.  And oh yes, Charles mentioned bringing us to another night market again tomorrow!