Roasted Cat, anyone?
"Mee sua!" I would announce to Sis for days before we left for Taipei. Well, I wanted mee sua, and mee sua I got, 3 times, from the famous Ah Chung Mian Xian （阿宗面线） in Ximending （西门钉） near our hotel (Hotel Rainbow). Out of my 2 objectives for the trip (shopping & eating), I managed to fulfil only the latter to my satisfaction.The idea of the Taiwan trip was conceived nearly a year ahead, just after the Japan trip with Sis. Fern came into the picture sometime in mid Oct, but everything came together only in Dec, about a month before we were to set off. Sis planned the trip this time, with minimal input from me ("Shopping centre with the ferris wheel!", "Mee sua!"), and Fern was to be our translator. ^_^
After checking into our hotel in the mid afternoon, we hit the streets of Ximending looking for mee sua (how delightful in the winter chill!) and milk tea. Ximending was a smaller, more organized (and understandable) version of Shinjuku, with shops selling stuff similar to those at Far East Plaza. However, we had places to go, things to see, so we set off for the 1st stop.
Seeing Miramar was a big thrill. We took the train to Jiantan station (剑潭站) then the shuttle bus which dropped us off outside the shopping centre. However the shops proved too atas for our budgets. The place was less crowded than our Paragon on weekdays, and the price tags revealed why. So Sis and I amused ourselves by reliving scenes from Why Why Love at appropriate parts of the building while Fern looked on in amazement that we could remember so much. We also took a ride up the ferris wheel but the city's night lights were nothing spectacular. We managed to catch a glimpse of Taipei 101 though at that time, we had no inkling that building was the iconic landmark.
We made our way to Shilin Night Market in the biting night air. I was rather disappointed with the stuff that was on display; it was more like a Chinese version of Chatuchak market. The food was more enticing, the girls manning the stalls even more so. I kept whispering to Fern that the sellers at the stalls we went to were "so pretty!". Unfortunately I did not think of taking photos of them. Fern and I got a shock when we saw the banner at one of the stalls (below, top centre) which read "Roasted Cat". Turned out that it sold pancakes with red bean/pumpkin/chocolate fillings. We ended off the night with our 2nd milk tea of the day at a cafe overlooking the main road.
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