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Location | Taipei – Tony’s House

Woke up a little late, had some breakfast and then Zhiyan came to take me to Taipei. Got onto the High Speed Rail (which is awesome by the way) and it took only an hour to get to Taipei. I went to Yuansan to wait for Tony. We went back to his apartment where I dropped my stuff off and then we headed out to Taipei 101. We first went to Page One and I was incredibly sad to find out that they cut the store size in half. It is definitely NOT the largest bookstore in Asia anymore.

Taipei 101 from the ground

I’d never gone up to the top of Taipei 101, so Tony and I went to the top in the world’s fastest elevator. We took a lot of pictures and stared at Taipei from all angles. It’s been cloudy and crappy all day, but there were still some nice pictures. We also went outside, but since it was a very windy day, they wouldn’t let us on all sides of the building. We then went down to see their “Super Big Damper” and through all the souvenirs and back down to the bottom of 101.

View from Taipei 101

We then walked over to New York, New York where we strolled around Muji and some other stores before deciding that we’d like to try Mister Donut.

Almost everyone I know has said they like Mister Donut. So I was really excited to see how good it really was.

Tony and I got 6 donuts. We went outside to try them out.

Well…

The first one was green tea glazed. Um… gross.

Then a chocolate one… even worse…

Ok, the donuts were disgusting. We were hoping that it’d get better. Let me tell you, it doesn’t get better. We were trying to give away our Mister Donut’s Donuts by the end of the night.

Whyyyy did we buy you Mister Donut???

So we decided to walk back to the subway stop and Tony decided to point east… unfortunately the subway was west and I actually knew where we were. We went to the Sogo area to find Tony’s friend Phoebe. We found her really quickly and strolled around Sogo until she got off work. We met up with her and her cousin (Peggy) and went to a really cute tea shop. We got some sandwiches and tea/coffee. The latte was actually really good, but the tea was the cutest and best part.

Tony, me, Peggy and Phoebe at tea

Aftewards we met up with Tony’s friend Sophia and her friend, David. We went to eat Dou Hua (a type of sweet dessert made from soy beans). After eating that we went to Sophia’s to just hang out in her apartment. I really liked the set-up, as it was very loft-like.

Tony, David and I went to Shilin Night Market afterwards. We strolled through the market quite quickly because David wanted to get to this store to get A&F/AE/Hollister stuff that was incredibly cheap. We couldn’t figure out if the stuff was real or fake, but Tony and David spent about an hour to an hour and a half in the store just trying on different things.

Afterwards Tony and I took a cab to MOS Burger. For some reason we had both been craving MOS Burger. In the end I’m not sure why I was craving MOS burger…

MOS Burger