Isabel turned 18 annd graduated from high school so I decided to take her on a graduation trip to Asia - Taiwan and China for 22 nights.
It’s our first time in Taipei. We both were excited for all the different food we will experience. We arrived direct from sfo to Taipei at 5:15am on June 8. Both of us got to sleep quite a bit which felt pretty good considering a 13 hour flight. We got local cash out of the atm at the airport and decided to brave the metro plus taxi combo vs just take uber. It turned out very easy and pleasant. We were able to load up two easy pass card with nt 400 each. (nt100 to buy the card). Metro from airport to main station was only 160 nt each and then taxi was 120 nt. Got to hotel in about 45 min and nt440 ($15) vs uber would have been longer due to traffic and close to $40. A very good start. Day 1 was off to a good start.
Hotel: amba Zhongshan was what I decided. We like it a lot. It’s in a cute neighborhood and very walkable to metro and local restaurants. At $185 a night plus $70 to check in at 9am, it was a good deal. We opted for a larger balcony room so we have good enough space.
Local breakfast. Originally wanted to go to Fu Hang Soy Milk 阜杭豆漿 but they were closed on Monday https://maps.app.goo.gl/f9otSWfQZhuUc7wv9?g_st=ic we found a closer place and delicious. Sihai Soy Milk 四海豆漿大王. We got salted soy milk, fried dough, 烧饼plus scallion egg and pork floss, cold soy drink and plain bun. All for less than $5. We did take out so we can eat in nice air conditioned hotel lobby vs onsite.
Then it was nap time first for me while Isabel spoke to her friends and then her I opted to order lunch delivery as I woke up midday to pouring rain I ordered shrimp pork dumplings and xiao long bao the latter was good and the former was a bit less impressive. By the time Isabel woke from napping it was dinner time so we headed to our first night market
Night market: Raohe night market was easy to get to by MRT even in the rain we walked 10 min to station and 5 stops later we were there and luckily the heavy rain turned into just a drizzle. We had pepper pork bun, Tianjin scallion pancake, pork belly bao, Taiwan fried chicken bits, fried snow crab meat (me only), guava drink and ended with mango shaved ice. Most were delicious The mango shaved ice was at a place Jensen huang, ceo of nvidia, just visited in late May and endorsed. All in all a fun 2 hours and we were full and it was only 8:30 Isabel was ready for bed and I still had some energy 🤪
Massage and hair wash: I happen to walk around the hotel in the afternoon looking to buy water and came across this Vietnamese hair wash place. I thought how good could it be but to my surprise 4.8 stars from like a thousand people Anyways I ended up get an hour massage plus 40 min hair wash for $60 It was freaking amazing. I slept like a baby for 8 hours after. 橙花越式洗髮-台北總店 https://maps.app.goo.gl/JwQxTQkvvJ6BnqRT7?g_st=ic
A great first day! 😋❤️🥰
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