Taiwan travellogue, Day 6 Part 2 (Taipei)

Finally, we were back in Taipei. After an easy trip which took us to Shifen, Jiufen, Sun Moon Lake, Fenqihu and Alishan, we were back in Taipei. This time, we decided to stay in a hotel within a stone's throw of the Taoyuan MRT station so that the next morning, all we needed to do was to drag our luggage across the main road, no more using their underground walkways, and tah-dah, we'd be at the station.

But for this last night in Taiwan, what were we to do and where were we to go? At first, we had thought of visiting the Gondola but gave up the idea as we preferred somewhere close to the hotel. We also thought of revisiting the Raohe night street market but for the same reason, we gave up that idea too. Finally, we decided on going back to Ximending as we could then do some last-minute shopping.

Ximending on a Sunday night was a vast difference from Ximending on a Tuesday night. We found the place was jampacked with people and thus, a much livelier environment. More excitement, more crowds everywhere we turned, more fashionable people. More of everything. The few constants were the eateries and street stalls which were basically unchanged and offering the same stuff we saw on our first time here.

We wandered around, watching the street entertainment and at times joining the long queues for some food and snacks. But basically ending up at the shops that were selling Taiwanese tidbits. Among the four of us, we bought enough to fill two luggage bags. Obligatory stuff for the relatives and friends. 

We discovered this 7-Eleven outlet which sold a lot of Peanuts merchandise

Braised beef noodle soup consisting of meat and tripe

Siew Leong Pau outlets were plenty, but nothing really special actually

We ended up here for the tidbits

Food must be good to attract this queue

More street entertainment but my son wasn't too impressed with his diablo skills

Not going to comment much about this except to say this pineapple cake was available everywhere!