Day 7 :
Good morning! Before we start shopping around Xi Men Ding, first, let me have a warm cup of pearl milk tea from Coco ( Co Co 都可 )!
Operating Hours : 11am to 11pm ( Monday to Sunday )
Warm cup of pearl milk tea from CoCo is a must for me whenever I come in Taiwan when the weather is cold! ( If it's not cold, I will still drink the ice pearl milk tea... Haha! )
Ok, let's start the shopping now! Even though we bought all the local snacks from RuYi yesterday, this Red Sakura is a shop that Teresa will always come.
Operating Hours : 9am to 11pm ( Monday to Sunday )
Another outlet in Xi Men Ding :
Operating Hours : 10am to 9pm ( Monday to Sunday )
They have nice sunny cake and pineapple tart and most importantly, their packaging are Hello Kitty!
Not a Hello Kitty fan, no worries, they have normal packaging too!
They rest of us had enough snacks from yesterday so we didn't buy anything beside Teresa.
So, it's Ah Zhong Mee Sua time! How can we not eat Ay-Chung Flour Rice Noodle when we are in Xi Men Ding right?
Address : No. 8-1號, Emei Street, Wanhua District, Taipei City, Taiwan 108
Operating Hours : 9am to 11pm ( Monday to Sunday )
I just love the simple taste of it! But of course not all people appreciate it's simple taste and was expecting a fantastic taste because it's popular. It's either you like it or you don't, simple as that.
Porter International again! Helping my friend to buy this time round at the Eslite Wuchang store.
Address : 10843, Taiwan, Taipei City, 台北市武昌街二段77號1樓
Operating Hours : 11am to 11pm ( Monday to Sunday )
Free popcorn with purchase in the mall!
Their popcorn are not bad! After redeeming the small free pack, I bought the normal size in the seaweed flavor!
Lunch time! We wanted to eat Lu Rou Fan ( braised pork rice ) so we just randomly walk into this 365 Taiwan Xiao Chi ( 365台灣小吃 ).
Address : No. 34號, Hanzhong Street, Wanhua District, Taipei City, Taiwan 108
Operating Hours : 9.30am to 10.30pm ( Monday to Sunday )
Price are quite cheap and beside Braised pork rice, they have other choice too.
The main dish, braised pork rice!
We ended up ordering other dish as well, as we all know normally braised pork rice are all very small portion.
Let's tuck in!
Guess where we are?
We are actually back to Taipei 101 for their famous Starbucks! Although it says we need at least 1 day in advance for reservation but actually we tried to call to reserve many days before we reach Taiwan, it's either nobody answer or reservation is full and with a help from Shayne's Taiwan friend, we finally manage to make a reservation for today at 5pm.
Address : 110, Taiwan, Taipei City, Xinyi District, Section 5, Xinyi Road, 7號35樓101辦公大樓
Telephone for reservation : +886 2 8101 0701
Operating Hours : 7.30am to 8pm ( Monday to Friday )
9.30am to 7.30pm ( Saturday and Sunday )
Finally at 5pm, the Starbucks staff are here to fetch us up. Due to the special location of the Starbucks, we need to wait at the meeting point and wait for them to fetch us up.
It says 5pm x 4 person...
The Starbucks is actually inside the office building, at level 35 and it's famous because of the view from the café.
Ok! This place is so overrated! I don't see any super nice view from here.
And to make it worse, it's raining outside so the view is even not exciting!
Let's not talk about the coffee because it's the same everywhere. We ended up not getting anything and left after seeing the disappointing view.
Since we didn't spend our time in Starbucks, we decided to head off to our dinner place earlier and check with them is it possible to have our dinner before our reservation time.
Anyway, finally I got to try this Hello Kitty Shabu Shabu! Remember once I called almost 100 call to the restaurant trying to make a reservation but no luck at all, so this time I learnt my lesson, I make the reservation 1 month in advance through their Facebook!
Address : No. 16, Alley 27, Lane 216, Section 4, Zhongxiao East Road, Da’an District, Taipei City, Taiwan 106
Telephone : +886 2 2711 5216
Operating Hours : 11.30am to 10pm
Updates : All outlet of this Hello Kitty Shabu Shabu is officially closed.
The restaurant do sell some Hello Kitty merchandise too.
Now we know why even if we reach early they still allow us to eat, it's almost empty! But I don't understand why is it so difficult to make reservation last time and it's without reservation, you can't even eat there! Is it at that time it's newly open so everyone to try it and now nobody want to try it anymore?
So basically this is a set, that includes 1 soup base, 1 plate of assorted vegetable, 1 meat of your choice, 1 rice or noodle and 1 steam egg.
Price of the set depend on the meat you choose.
The drinks menu.
It's call Hello Kitty Shabu Shabu so you will expect nothing else but Hello Kitty right?
The assorted vegetable is here! Look at that Hello Kitty tofu! So cute!
Even our soup cover are Hello Kitty!
IG purpose drink! Haha! Nothing special about this drink actually.
Guess what is this?! Jelly? Nope! It's collagen! So cute they make the collagen into Hello Kitty shape for us to put into our soup!
Everything about Hello Kitty! These are all ala carte that we can add on.
Squid ball ( flower ) and Squid ink ball ( ribbon ).
Even steam egg is with Hello Kitty!
Let's eat!
OMG! Look at that rice! Haha! I normally will choose noodle over rice but this rice is too cute not to choose! Haha!
Basically the food is not bad although the taste of the tomato soup that I choose is not strong enough, very blend to be honest but the pork soup is ok. Oh ya they have Sukiyaki which is not in the menu and it's nice.
Take a picture with the Hello Kitty outside before leaving the place.
After dinner, we went to Shi Lin night market ( 士林夜市 ).
Address : No. 101號, Jihe Road, Shilin District, Taipei City, Taiwan 111
Operating Hours : 4pm to 12am ( Monday to Friday )
3pm to 1am ( Saturday and Sunday )
Since I'm at Shi Lin night market, how can I miss out my favorite bun at Hao Chi Rou Bao ( 士林夜市廟口好吃肉包 ) right?
Yummy char siew bun!
My another standard stall ( 珍品五味 黑糖薑母茶 ) that I will visit whenever I'm in Shi Lin night market. Black sugar tea time!
Address : 111, Taiwan, Taipei City, Shilin District, Jihe Road, 101號193/194/195攤位
Operating Hours : 4pm to 12am ( Monday to Sunday )
Having fun at the night market!
Fried milk to end the night market visit!
Back to hotel and good night people!
Day 8 :
Good morning! Seeing these luggage you know it's time to check out and go home right?
Holiday ending and back to reality soon!
I actually had a different flight with the 3 of them so after checking out the hotel, left our luggage at the hotel and we went separate way. I only have a little time so I decided to roam around Xi Men Ding and found this hidden café, Naughty Lady Café ( 淘汽小姐 )!
Address : 108, Taiwan, Taipei City, Wanhua District, 中華路一段144號-13
Operating Hours : 12pm to 9pm ( Sunday to Thursday )
12pm to 10pm ( Friday and Saturday )
Address : 108, Taiwan, Taipei City, Wanhua District, 中華路一段144號-13
Operating Hours : 12pm to 9pm ( Sunday to Thursday )
12pm to 10pm ( Friday and Saturday )
Their menu is pasted on the door. Hmm... What should I have?
When I'm there, the staff is actually teaching some kids how to make the drinks that they order therefore this is why you see table with drinks but nobody is around because all the kids and parents are at the back counter learning.
They provide ( but must return back... ) some cute float for IG purpose ( I guess? ) and of course to make the drinks look more fun!
So now, time to head off to the airport!
And time to say good bye to Taiwan again!
Bye and see you next time!
