I noticed a sleepy looking fellow who definitely was dressed as I am at home, and decided to follow him to see where he would go. He walked into a fast food (regular food, they just serve it quickly) place and then since we couldn't read anything, followed him again to a second location- a Family Mart. Noting the prices, me and Alison deccided to explore a little more and then saw an open space nook in the corner of a building with some tables and chairs and someone eating there.
I ordered the only thing I knew, "Guo tie" Fried dumplings essentially, or pot stickers, whatever the hell they are, i just know they're delicious. then we used the pictures to pick out something to bring back ot chrystina. I think it was some sandwich with fish? and then a pork hamburger. It was interesting. They have this weird mayonnaise sauce that is very sweet that I try to avoid becasue it'll mess with my stomach. Its tough though since they put that on everythign, salads, sandwiches, .. and i guess that's about it.
After the breakfast place we stop by the Family Mart and buy some drinks- super supau! and a giant bottle of water. I forget bags are 1 dollar? NT? it sucks, but it makes sense.
Afterwards we go back to the apartment and chill, i think i'm watching netflix (i know, its ridiculous to fly across the world to watch arrested development). I also download some Chinese/English apps . They turn out to be pretty nifty- check out
"Hanping" for Chinese- English translation, its easy to copy/paste chinese sentences received via chat and the app will break it down for you per phrase
"Pleco" for writing Chinese characters and seeing what they mean in english. they also have a similar chinese>english copy/paste translation, but i think i was more happy with Hanping
"Dictionary" basic English> chinese or vice versa dictionary for figuring out what words to say .
Also a taipei MRT map app.
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Copied from http://johomaps.com/as/taiwan/taipei/taipeimetro.html the map is interactive on the site, I recommend it if you're curious
Next up, our cousin comes to pick us up and we travel to this place in Banqiao (west on the blue line) to find an eyebrow store for my mom. She wants to get her eyebrows fixed. she says no one can see her eyebrows, but i never really noticed.
During the trip, it starts to rain, so the owner's daughter takes us to the metro with a bunch of umbrellas and we travel to taipei City Hall Station where Taipei 101 is located- the second tallest building in the world. It held the record until recently when the Burj Dubai (changed to a new name) was created.
But connected to the metro station, there's this giant food court and shopping mall area. Its amazing. all underground too. so we go there and get some food and eat. and since it's still raining and we don't know which MRT stop to get on to get back to our place, we take a taxi. which is surprisingly cheap. like to get from the middle of the city to the SanChong district (west on the yellow line just across the zhong xing bridge from Ximen) its like 400 NT (13ish dollars?) for 4 people.
Anyway we get back and pack , we're going on a 7 day "vacation" to the east coast of taiwan and one of the islands found there. i kept hearing that it was very beautiful. guess you'll find out.
Because of the schedule my mom created, we don't really have much free time to hang out with our friends, because they're working during the week and we're traveling over the weekends, so we'll make the best of it. at least we do have one free weekend to hang out.
everyone passes out by 10 pm, we gotta get up early the next day.
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