Had a smooth ride from Jetstar and arrived at Taoyuan airport around noon time.
We proceed to limousine counter at the airport and paid around NT1300 for the journey from airport to our hotel near the Taipei Main Station (台北车站). The journey was swift and we had a good chat with the driver asking him various Taiwanese food and where to find them .
After checking into our hotel, we proceed to Taipei Main Station to purchase our tickets to Hualien for the next day.
The Taipei Main Station is connected to the underground Taipei City Mall (台北地下街), hence we decided to do some exploring there.
An interesting sign we came across.
We walked passed an eatery and decided to take a short break to fill our empty stomach. The smell of the smelly beancurd was quite strong, but that’s didn’t stop me from trying it! The taste was quite good, but the soup wasn’t really hot though. Nevertheless the ingredients tasted great.. at least to me.
We passed by an ISP (Far Eastone) and I went in to purchase a 5 days pass for unlimited 3G in Taiwan. The cost is NT$350, not too bad.
After some walking we decided to head back to the train station to take the MRT to Taipei 101. The MRT system in Taipei they called it the Taipei Metro. As we are not planning to do any aggressive traveling with Taipei, we did not purchase the MRT passes for tourists. We just opt for the normal single trip. The MRT “tickets” purchased are in the form of tokens.
When we reached Taipei 101, the weather wasn’t great and we were told that the top floor will be closed due to the bad weather.
We came back down from the tower and walked around in the shopping mall. We came across a KFC outlet. I remembered my classmate recommended me to try out their egg tarts which she said was better than Singapore. I would say the taste is rather similar, not fantastic.
Taking the MRT back to our hotel.. we were rather tired already after the 4 hours plus flight.
Back to the hotel, I tried the SIM card that I have purchased and slot it into my Huawei E5830. It didn’t work automatically as expected. But anyway it was easy to configure to make it work. The display of the Huawei MIFI didn’t managed to display the wordings correctly, but who cares, it’s working anyway.
