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…since I last updated my blog. I wonder if anyone ever come visit anymore. haha Anyway, at least I know one person who comes and complains when he doesn’t see me updating…oh make that 2! so here I am.

What I’ve been up to in the last little while? I actually had my 2 weeks holiday.

At the start of my holiday, I went to Taipei with Chrissy to see an old friend, Ann, whom I haven’t seen for like 7 years. It was a bit awkward at first but we soon warmed up and I am hoping to keep in a closer touch with her. Had known her since grade 10 which is kinda scary to think how time has passed.

The trip itself was rather relax because we didn’t do much shopping nor sight seeing. Just floated around town, indulged in the Eslite bookstore (love that part) and ate a lot of local food.

After we came back, me and bko went up to Shanghai for F1. Little did he know that I’ve rounded up 6 other friends to go with him. Boy, was he grinning like a lunatic when he saw them at the airport.

Taipei Oct 1 – 4

Took the morning flight, ventured out to have 小籠包 (pork & chive steamed dumpling) at 鼎泰豐. ended up napping in the hotel for the rest of afternoon which was a total luxury.

Then we went to 士林夜市 (night market) for various snack such as deep fried tofu, 甜不辣，蔥油餅…etc

but the best would be the taiwanese icy dessert discovered by Chrissy in an small alley. The store is called 鲜芋仙 and their taro + sweet potato + sago stuff is super yummy. They are really chewy that in our opinion are way better than the famous 東區粉圓. Read more about them from this blog I found.

The next day, we met up with Ann thinking she could take us to some best-kept-secret places. Little did we know that she’s not as local as we thought so we ended up having Italian food in Taipei 101. Afterward we took the subway and went all the way to æ·¡æ°´ because we wanted to get out to the country side.

Having handmade icecream and it was super yummy!!! I ordered the milk plus mango flavor and it was really creamy & milky. Only complaint was that the icecream man had this wierd obsession about my watch.

Tried out this “thing” called 阿給. Ann said it’s only available in æ·¡æ°´ – probably because it tasted too wierd to spread and became the signature / tourist trap here:P

At least we made it there to see the sunset.

Then we went back to the city for 滷肉飯 and headed back to the hotel to play tarot

On day 3, the weather turned as there was typhoon coming. We went to the biggest 城品書店 in信義district. Not only selling books but they have other lifestyle and fashion items too.

It started to rain so hard so we stayed for an afternoon tea chatting, playing NDS & surfing the web.

Went to 西門町to look around and ordered duck tongue for bko. Of course we didn’t miss our change to eat more local food – 阿宗麵線&愛玉冰, which is another chrissy’s favorite.

Ended our day with a big hot pot dinner. We especially loved the 花枝.

On the last day I was so happy that we had Mos Burger for brunch before we headed out to the airport. After trying them in Japan, Singapore & now Taiwan, seems like they always tasted better than the one in Hong Kong.

That’s it for now. Shanghai trip to come later…