taiwan/hk day 9: taipei

last day in taipei and the plan is just to explore the city very slowly and lazily. ha.

again, we moved out of the hotel only at 11+am. :P

lunch for today will be at the popular "shit" restaurant where food and beverages are being served in toilet bowls..

it was already packed by the time we reached so we left our name and came back again in an hour time.. @_@

 

the food is really just so-so but the pricing is not ex so it's still ok.

but the kids love the set up (we were sitting on toilet bowl seats and ice cream served to resemble shit etc) so it was still a fun experience for them.

 

at the entrance

 

in the restaurant

 

after lunch, it was back to roaming XMD.

we headed out to eslite bookshop (I think its the xinyi branch) and the boys and me had fun browsing the books on the shelves. maybe not so much for the husband..

 

since the bookshop is so near zhongxiao east road, we walked down the full stretch of road.

by the time we were almost done, its time for dinner!

and we had made reservations on the first day we arrived at Taipei - dinner was at 鼎王麻辣鍋!



 

 

we ordered the 鴛鴦鍋

 

the ma-la soup was chocked full of tofu and some red colored tofu-like stuff.

I asked the staff what was that and was told that is duck's blood! @_@

*faint*

I took out 80% of it and told her not to add any more..

I think i can do without its flavor....

 

the meat was very fresh and the other food that we ordered were good too.

a pity the husband does not know how to appreciate steamboat (together with 1000xxx +++ type of cuisines) so he thought the meal was ok only.

*pui*

 

but it was a nice finale for our trip in Taiwan.

our last dinner for the trip was steaming hot steamboat on a rainy evening. sweet!

 

we headed back to the hotel straight after dinner.

after bathing, the husband headed out to XMD alone, adamant to eat his mango shedded ice @_@

while I stayed behind to pack the luggage and the boys snoozed.. 

 

it has been a lovely 8D7N here in Taipei & central Taiwan!

but the ng family is all ready to head to HK for some serious feasting and SHOPPING! :D