Taipei Shopping

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If you are looking for a bookstore which has more collection of the English books in the market. Then you probably have to stop by Pageone. Most foreigners go there to shop for books. They sometimes have sales on the popular books too.

What to buy: English books.

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Great service and plenty of nice aquariums. We've just got us a nice aquarium yesterday. It's a salt-water tank. Very nice one. They set everything up for us without charging us.

If you r not interested in buying any, it's fun to visit this little shop too. It's got a very unique architecture. Just look at the picture. Doesn't it make you feel like you r in the boat?!

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Great shopping mall. It's one of the most popular tourist spot. You can find almost everything and also from low price shops to high standard shops, they are all in the same mall. They also have a nice bookstore there. Most people loves shopping for books there. Among the foreigners, they have a great opinion on it.
It's near another shopping centre, and within 5 mins walk, you can go see a movie if you want.

The Miramar Entertainment Park is a new-age shopping and entertainment complex .b

The most striking feature of this park, is a 95-meter-high, 70-meter-in-diameter Ferris wheel that light up at night to add a strong touch of romance to the Taipei skyline

What to buy: Lots

What to pay: Ticket Price for Ferris Wheel:
(Sat)~(Sun) (General)NT$200
(Mon)~(Fri) (General)NT$150

The story began with a poor old granny who can hardly sold her soy-sause-marinated-egg. Therefore, she kept boilt her eggs, until one day her products was as hard as stone. However, it attracted a lot of gluttens, and the fame and the legend and the tourism began.
There are many places selling "Iron Egg" in Danshui. A-Po is one of the most famous and the best shops there. Whenever I go Danshui, I buy some of their products home. By the way, there is nothing special with this shop, but the munchies they produce.

What to buy: Iron Egg is a preserved egg. It's boiled by speical sause and then dry up; the same process repeat three times, and your egg is as hard as a stone. It's a little bit salty but delicious, a little bit hard but chewy. I think you would like it. What's more, it's like trademark of Danshui.
Yu-Su is another trademark of Danshui. It's like dried tempura really savoury; I don't like it due to high cholstero and tallow that makes mey fingers oily.

What to pay: A package of Iron Egg is NT100;
a package of Yu-Su is NT50.
Exchange rate is about US1=NT31~33

The story began with a poor old granny who can hardly sold her soy-sause-marinated-egg. Therefore, she kept boilt her eggs, until one day her products was as hard as stone. However, it attracted a lot of gluttens, and the fame and the legend and the tourism began.
There are many places selling "Iron Egg" in Danshui. A-Po is one of the most famous and the best shops there. Whenever I go Danshui, I buy some of their products home. By the way, there is nothing special with this shop, but the munchies they produce.

What to buy: Iron Egg is a preserved egg. It's boiled by speical sause and then dry up; the same process repeat three times, and your egg is as hard as a stone. It's a little bit salty but delicious, a little bit hard but chewy. I think you would like it. What's more, it's like trademark of Danshui.
Yu-Su is another trademark of Danshui. It's like dried tempura really savoury; I don't like it due to high cholstero and tallow that makes mey fingers oily.

What to pay: A package of Iron Egg is NT100;
a package of Yu-Su is NT50.
Exchange rate is about US1=NT31~33

First of all, I have spent one term studying Ten Ren's strategy and history.
Ten Ren has more than 100 beanches worldwide, and they mainly locates in the States, Canada, Malyasia and I know one in China Town in Singapore. Ten Ren is the frist company that makes their own brand name for selling specialty tea in Taiwan. Taiwan has exported tea for more than a century, but, ironically, they are the first. They privides standardised service and high-quality tea.
With the advent of e-commerce, you can also buy from their website, which is provided below.

What to buy: If you want to buy something as a gift, buy a bag of Chinese tea; if you want to please yourself in the shop, buy a cup of bubble tea, which you can enjoy immediately. Their bubble tea is quite famous here also, but it cost two folds of their competitions.

What to pay: It depends. The prices of their products vary with a large range. Because the quality can differ from one to another due to different place of leaves' sources.

Shih Lin Night Market is one of the most famous night markets in Taipei, making it a long-time favorite among residents and tourists, locals and foreigners.

It offers almost every product you can think of-- from food, to photography, to electronics and clothing. Even on weeknights, the place will be crowded with locals trying to find a good bargain.

Two places you should definitely try:
1. Chicken steak- Hao Da Chicken Steak located in front of the Yang Ming Theatre costs NT$50 for a large piece of chicken.

2. Ten Dollar Barbeque- Located right next door, skewers of chicken wings, bean curd, shrimp and squid are available, smothered in yummy barbecue sauce.

Other food items available:
- Shanghai Fried Buns (sheng jian bao)
- Fried squid
- Tempura
- Teppanyaki
- Cantonese congee
- Flavored ice
- Oyster omelets
- Frog eggs
- Octopus balls
- Spicy bean curd

What to pay: NT$10-50 for a food item, NT$50-200 for clothes, NT$100 for movie