Exploring Taiwan!: Day 1 : Taiwan, Here I Come!

meet up with Yongwei and Huiting at the airport...been long since i have seen Huiting, maybe around a year or two already? haha...boarded a afternoon Jetstar Asia flight to Taiwan and touch down at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (中正國際機場) at around evening...pretty bad flight i would say with lots of turbulence =/ ...we bought a local sim card from one of the counters just outside the terminal before transfering to a GuoGuang bus that takes us to Taipei Main Station (台北車站)...it took freaking long due to the heavy traffic jam on the road and it was raining heavily...probably due to the typhoon that occured just yesterday night...i was feeling really hungry...but still have to rush straight to the train station first to get all the train tickets that we required as i was afraid they might be fully booked...luckily i manage to get all of them after the long wait in the quene...so happy!!!...took the MRT to Zhongshan station and check in to our hostel (Taiwanmex Guest House)...got a 4 bed dorm for the 3 of us...pretty nice and cosy and cheap too hehe...it was still drizzling...but we hit Shilin Night Market (士林夜市) straight away to cure our hungry tummy =p ...first time trying out chou doufu (臭豆腐)...tasted okie with chilli, but w/o...eeeeeeeee yucks...bad sewage smell, just not my type of food lol...ate other stuff like fried oyster (蚵仔煎), sotong soup or something (花枝庚)...it is not really soup, kinda starchy one...and of cos xiang ji pai (香雞排) hehe...went window shopping around...was so tempted to start buying clothes...but had to restrain myself from buying now since i still got many days ahead and needed to travel light...no worries...i will be back!!!...finally back to hostel for a warm bath and rest...

Travel Informations
To reach Shilin Night Market, take the Danshui Line to JianTan Station (劍潭站), NOT Shilin Station!

me and moi backpack, all set to go! =p