Travelling Extravaganza - Taipei

As mentioned previously, I was travelling madly since Jan 2012 and after BKK, Taipei was my next destination for business trip.

Honestly speaking, I wasn't so upset being appointed to go to Taipei for this trip. Which woman will resist Taipei!? Though I am under a travel craze from company aspect, I was still pretty much happy to step my foot onto Taipei! After all, I could go shopping after work due to their night markets!

Let's get started on the yummy-licious part...FOOD! There are just too many delicious food all over Taipei, hehe! Here's some I've ordered and taken during my stay there. Most of them were my breakfast & lunch during the business appointments and etc.

银座拉面: Their katsu and rice sets are pretty nice but I heard from my colleagues who ordered ramen commented that the noodles weren't that good...

便所餐厅: What more can I say? Patronised this restaurant previously during my last trip & LOVE their hotpot, thus, couldn't resist but to drag my colleague along this time to let her try it out!

Ikari Coffee: This is a Americanised cafe serving Amercian style of breakfast. My FAVOURITE. Served delicious breakfast and won't hesitate to re-visit again if I go back there!

Dante's Coffee: Introduced this cafe to my colleagues for breakfast since there was one nearby our hotel. Again, they serve American style of breakfast thus, I love it to the max ^^.

集客人间茶馆: That would be the hotpot photo you see at the bottom of the photo above. Recommended and brought there by our partners. Very fresh and clean base soup with pork shabu shabu. Really hard not to like it when the weather's cold enough to make you enjoy it.

Another restaurant I will like to recommend will be the Kazu Cafe. This restaurant is located in an alley opposite of  师大夜市 (Shida night market) entrance. The ambiance of this restaurant gives their customers a very cozy and English-style of feel which really makes you feel at home. They serve a lot of varieties, especially OMUrice which is one of my favourite! And so, off I went to order. :D

Looks delicious right? This is an omelette rice served with minced meat. Frankly speaking, this dish is fantastic, but somehow, it wasn't stated what kind of meat it was and I tasted it to be like of beef (I can't take beef due to health issue), so I kind of took it aside and ate up the rest. Overall, it taste good!

Their choice of beverages are also amazing. Lots of choices to select and I chose a mango ice-blend. Sigh, I asked their waitress countless times to verify if this beverage contained milk. While she said no, it turned out they blended it with milk still, after a few rounds of clarification. TOTALLY WASTED!

Looks so nice but I couldn't drink it!

Given the fact that my 1st visit to Kazu Cafe was much of a good experience even though the ambiance and the food weren't so bad, I returned once again, this time, with my other 2 colleagues who wanted to visit Shida night market (I extended 2 more nights to shop) to taste other dishes. This time, I really LOOKED at their menu CAREFULLY!

Hahaha, ordered an omelette pork cutlet rice on my 2nd visit just to play safe. :D

Enough of food already. Now let's go to the LOOT I've gotten from Taipei. How can I leave them out ya? Be warned, below-mentioned are just some but not all of my loot!

The photo you are about to see is an incredible photo. Reason being.....the outfit you are going to see were all bought from Taipei and I wore it during the trip instantly, LOL!

Beret, coat, scarf, bag.
All from Taipei!

Hat-lookalike (a hairband) & sweater from Taipei

While browsing and walking around at Shin Kong shopping mall with my colleague during her last day of stay in Taipei, she commented why I still haven't bought a single Hello Kitty item. Truth be told, I was puzzled too. Alas, you really can't speak of the devil cause the devil will come to you naturally and speedily!

Hello Kitty watch from Sanrio!

See? End up I got myself a Hello Kitty watch (AUTHENTIC one OK!) just 20 minutes after my colleague made that comment to me. It was not intentional but I happened to be really looking for a watch and this Hello Kitty watch looks just too attractive to me ^^.

Apart from that, I've also bought a few items I feel really a catch as they are just too damn pretty and nice and affordable to begin with!

This owl ring is the prettiest ring out of my entire ring collection,
other than my skull ring :D

My 3rd skull bag! This time, it is bigger!

My 1st pair of boots!

I promised myself I wanted to get myself a pair of boots during my Taipei trip. I almost gave up the thought of buying until the very last night when we were browsing through 通化街 （通化夜市) Tonghua night market as our last shopping ground. The shop was selling all their shoes at 2 for 500NT which is less than 12 bucks per pair of shoes! Which dumbass won't grab them?

Mad and crazy travelling they seemed, but I gotta admit, I did enjoy them too. I always believe, a business trip may be tiring and stressing to some point but if you are able to make good out of it (Work is work, after work, PLAY), business trip can be fun too. :)

Oh yeah, once again, there is this one thing I can never forget about doing when I am in Taipei, especially in their airport. That will be........GODIVA Ice-blended! I can tell you, it tastes like heaven and you will NEVER love any other chocolate ice-blend anywhere else! Too bad I could only taste it in Taipei, somemore in their airport (within Departure hall).

My love. I wish I can drink it again!

I took a picture of myself when I returned to work after my trip full of Taipei loot on me. Since it is impossible for me to post ALL my loot from Taipei here, let me just post this here to close the loot chapter.

下回见! For my next post! :)