Taipei

Having only 2 x half day in Taipei, have to make full use of it.

Once we checked in into the vienna hotel, we got separated into groups. Me, BF and H went off to Shuang Cheng Street for lunch. I ordered yang chun noodle and some braised meat stuff, BF ordered the oyster mee sua, H, i think ordered roasted meat rice. The mee sua was good, very smooth exture and flavourful. The noodle and the roasted meat was ok only. The braised meat was quite good, similar to what we had in spore but I seems to be the only one enjoying. BF went to buy smelly beancurd, damn, was it smelly! The taste was kinda like sour and salty.. .. In the end I suspect I ate most of them too. BF den bought hot grass jelly and ice mu-er. The grass jelly was special, cos it's melted one, not like the solid strips that I'm so used to.

Next we met up with the rest in Ximen Ding. It's just like Bugis St, only a few times larger. Went into a Tattoo shop and a girl started to bombard me with questions on what I like to have. Den she passed me album after album to look through. In the end I gave a lame excuse and made my way out. XD commented that they looked kinda "underground". Haha.. one of the lady was pretty hot though. Things at Ximen Ding were not cheap, so spent much of the time "people-seeing" instead of really buying things. Went inside a Prankster shop, the auntie showed us several tricks. Den while doing the demonstrations, she suddenly sprayed some foam on me. I thought there's some trick in the foam or something, so I asked, "Ran hou leh?" Guess what she said? "Mei you ran hou. " Shit. Anyway I removed the foam and "shared" them with Gf and XD. hahaha...

Re-org with the guys after about 2 hours, some went back hotel, the rest of us decided to stay backed and hang around some more. So its Ximen Ding Round 2. Bought some gifts for the folks back in spore, and also a ring for myself. As the night falls, we had dinner eating fried oyster and head to Shilin Night Market.

Being a friday night, Shilin Market was incredibly packed. Imagine it as a gigantic pasar malam. It's so packed that I can only take half a step at a time. Din eat really much here, only tried roasted chicken heart, roasted chicken intestine, roasted squid, smelly beancurd (again, with chilli this time), mee sua (it's too good to be missed), papaya milk, and the very spore-like lime juice. Also went to the temple to pay my respect to the several deities inside. Shopped around for more gifts and it's back to hotel.

Bathed and refreshed, we headed to the supposedly most happening disco in Taipei - Luxy. The cover charge was NT800 (gasp), but we still went in. Yeah. We had 2 tables, 3 bottle of drinks (Jack Daniel and Chivas), and they only gave as 6 can of coke for mixer?! In the end some of us decided to might as well drink "need". The place was not bad, quite happening, comparable to MOS some said. The ladies are quite nicely dolled up, but the music left much to be desired. Anyway I drank a bit, danced for a while, and drank some more. WR taught the guys some stupid games to play, oo7, "Beep Beep Beep" etc, so drink again. Left the place around 4am, while waiting for cab, saw a guy slipping over someone's vomit. Eww..

Backed in hotel, bathed in the bathtub, almost fall asleep inside. Went to KM's room for a while to watch TV, den sleep for about 2 hours before the daybreak. First oversea bday, utterly enjoyed myself. The second day event, will post on another day.