港记酥皇店 - 西門總店

Day 5 

Not to mentioned unnecessary things, it the time for story telling by seeing the picture below of how the local Taiwanese lifestyle. We went to adapt the environment by visiting the morning market.

Shilin Morning Market

Fish Stall

Butcher Stall

We visited The Grand Hotel (圓山大飯店) in Taipei city where almost all VVIPs were be staying in. The Grand Hotel retains the elements of classic Chinese architecture in its building. It is not only the most splendid landmark of Taipei, but representative of contemporary palatial architecture. The guest rooms, decorated with both oriental and western details, offer the most comfortable stay.  Meanwhile, the standard room price have increased from NT$5,700+10%  to NT$8,200+10% in October 2014.

Entrance

Exterior of Grand Hotel

Lobby

Security Guard

Furthermore, many of the Malaysian have been visiting to Taiwan due to some of the similar commons. But somehow, they are some Taiwanese foods is remain unsuitable to Malaysians. Foremost, the local Taiwanese foods goes along to the beef noodle soup (牛肉面) and where this 品川蘭 served the best dishes. To be safe, try the normal beef noodle soup and average prices ranges of NT 230 (if I'm not mistaken).

品川蘭

品川蘭
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        (忠孝敦化捷运出口3)

Opening Hours
11:00am - 9:30pm daily

Let's consider today a historical day. Take the buses from Jiantan station to National Palace Museum (故宫).  Without knowing what happening, but the day I visited was free entry. How glad it is. 

故宫门口

Exterior of the National Palace Museum

Exterior of the National Palace Museum

Back to the Jiantan station, and travel to 國父紀念館.

國父紀念館

Changing Guard

If you did follow my previous post, I actually inform that we can take a whole 101 Tower from here.

101 Tower

101

You might wondering, what else the next top attractions in Taiwan? Due to the 2014 Taiwanese romantic comedy film 'Cafe Waiting Love', the cafe that have been used for shooting turns into the local and tourists spot. 

等一个人的咖啡店

等一个人的咖啡店面

menu

 Next, 中正纪念堂捷运站. 

中正纪念堂捷运站

中正纪念堂捷运站出口5

中正纪念堂

Interior of 中正纪念堂

Another Changing Guard that begin every 3pm

Take the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall station (中正纪念堂捷运站), and transfer to Longshan Temple Station (捷运龍山寺站).

龍山寺

龍山寺

Pray for the good in the future, then take one station to XiMenDing (西门町) station.

阿宗麵缐

阿宗麵缐

永和豆浆

豆浆与油条

If you are coming with the tour guide, they will introduce the 3Q President Cake (總统饼). This biscuits only be selling in XiMenDing and a newest location near Shilin Night Market. What so special about this biscuit? The tour guide will mentioned - if you could eat this, you might be the president in one day. Eventually, this is the pandan flavour biscuits that consists of mochi inside, pretty chewy..

6 總统饼  NT 320

 港记酥皇店 -  西門總店

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Opening Hours 

9:30am - 10:00pm daily

西門红楼

When the time around 3 o'clock, get ready to the Tanshui station (淡水). Once reaching the station, follow the sign board to 淡水老街 to hang around until the time to watch sunset by taking the bus (紅26) to 漁人碼頭.

淡水老街

Right on time we estimated, we could catch up the beautiful sunset. Enjoy!

淡水码头

Turning light on

淡水码头的夜景

Among all the attractions, I prefer to go Tamsui Fisherman's Wharf (漁人碼頭). This is because the fresh air breeze over and kind of relaxation to stop by.