Howard Plaza Hotel Taipei

... showed me around the Zhong Xiao Fu Xing area. I can't believe that I've never explored there before. It was like the entire street was filled with shops and restaurants. We walked up and down the place but I wasn't too keen on any of the places and so decided to walk back to Daniel's apartment. We walked by the Sun Yat Sen memorial and Daniel pointed out this American ice-cream parlour so we went in and had dessert. It was quite nice and refreshing. We then walked ...

... the underground shopping streets around the Main Station which we had passed by so many times but had not scouted them.<br><br> To keep it short, we basically walked the whole underground complex. We started with Zhongshan Underground (&#20013;&#23665;&#22320;&#19979;&#3490 3;), followed by Taipei Main Station Underground (&#21488;&#21271;&#36710;&#31449;&#2232 0;&#19979;&#34903;), Station Front Underground (&#31449;&#21069;&#22320 ...

... A few kam-bais later, I feel warm and my ears are pink. The food comes out like a freight train. There is dish after dish after dish. Shrimp, fish, crab &amp; seafood noodles, soup, pumpkin noodles, I can't remember everything. It is absolutely amazing the amount of food. It was all excellent. After getting stuffed, I can feel the fat depositing on my belly. Next we head to the Longshan temple. Holy ****! The detail of the carvings on ...

... are particularly good, and cheap, for sightseeing. An automated system tells you each station's name when approached. The city has the highest wireless penetration in the world, with the Internet being accessible through a city wide Wi-Fi network My brother, Jeff, has lived here for several decades. With my four visits to his home in 22 years, I've witnessed the slow spread of English and the Western culture here. Young adults ...

With all that we had to do prior to this little adventure (moving from Chicago to California and getting married..) we had little time to plan our trip. We looked at it like, hey how adventurous we will just show up and figure out where to go. In Japan it was easy, the lonely planet guided us for the most part (even if it was not too accurate), in Korea we used the tourist ...

... Chiao Yelio ( the smaller sister of the similar stone structure in the North of Taiwan. ). Here I eat all my favorites - frozen Buddha Head fruit and Lo Shen Hua flower ice cream ( a red flower with a light sour/sweat taste ). I also buy dried Bolomi ( also a fruit ), dried small fishes and Moa Dchi ( sticky rice with fillings ). While I so eat my ice cream I suddenly hear a sceam and a man makes a record breaking jump ...

... some questions to him, but he signals us to come nearer as he cannot hear us. Later he explanes that he can't hear that well anymore from the many years of load dynamite blasts in tunnel construction. He gives excellent answers and later he tells us that he, Mr. Guo is the No. 2 man of this construction project's largest section. His boss, the number 1 is a Japanese. Mr. Guo says that he has been in Japan for training. He is repairing the machine as ...

... Tofu milk ). Now I have to kill time, so I walk to the La La Shan tourist center and sit down comfortably in the information room. I am the only guest for the whole afternoon, only some employees are around. I read my book, take notes and watch TV on the flat screen which usually shows an info video - but there is noone who could be interested in it. The workers give me a tea from the vending machine - I must look ...

... flight to Jeju. In a case like this going to Osaka to explore isn't worth it as your bags will be following you. Waiting for 6 hours at the airport to check in may be your only alternative - which is no fun either. This results in your stopover being a ****** experience. If, on the other hand, you took this whole flight with Japan Airlines your luggage would be transferred for you. This would mean a free trip to Osaka and a good use of a ...