Our final morning in Taipei. It was time to go home but first, a spot of breakfast and there were plenty of choices around the hotel. The good thing about these food outlets is that they are not the street food type that we saw at the night markets. These food outlets operated from small decent shops and I must say that the quality is much superior to the fare from the night markets. For example, my son discovered a shop selling the most delicious pork dumplings in Taiwan. Plus, the so-called China pancake which looked very suspiciously like our own roti chanai but with different types of filling) was wonderful too.
Most of the morning crowd around these food outlets weren't tourists but Taiwanese searching to pick up a quick breakfast snack while on their way to work. Certainly, they knew where to go for good food and that was what tourists should do too. Stay off the beaten tourist paths and follow in the footsteps of the locals.
We left the hotel at 10.30am, caught the MRT to the airport and by eight o'clock at night, had arrived back at KLIA in Sepang. Terra firma. In a way, home but yet not quite. We had to spend a night at a hotel in Brickfields before catching the morning ETS train back to Bukit Mertajam.
As a postscript, my wife and I enjoyed a late breakfast at the Indian Spices Village, a Chettinad restaurant in Brickfields serving in our opinion one of the best Indian food around. We became excited seeing panipuri on their menu and it turned out to be a real treat. The fragrant mutton soup was totally out of this world. My order of chicken masala thosai filled me up wonderfully and my wife beamed over her rava thosai. Everything was washed down with a cup of ginger tea served Indian style in a metal cup and bowl. We shall look forward to visiting this restaurant again.
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| Of course, Taipei needs at least one sex shop 😆 |
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| Should one be drinking from the cup or the bowl? |
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