Aussies in Taipei

Cambodia ➞ ➞ ➞ ➞ Taiwan

Two aussies in Taiwan! So this is the story :

I met Matt (pink t-shirt) in Cambodia. One day he was on Skype talking with his parents, I was there listening, too. His dad, Mark (black t-shirt) offered him a trip together to Singapore. They've already been there, so I suggested "You guys can come to Taiwan then!". His dad  said "Sure, why not!" without thinking. :D

That's why they are here!

Day 1 07.15.2014 
It was Tuesday afternoon. I finally met Matt and his dad. We decided to go to Taipei 101 first.

This is my first time went up to the 101 observatory. 

So we went up to the 89th and 91st floor to check out the view of Taipei. 

We probably had spent 1-2 hours looking down the city from the north to the south and from the west to the east, and searching for interesting objects from above. It was amazing. 

After spending time at the 101, three of us were starving. We went to Xi Men Ding 西門町 to get some food. We've tried many kinds of Taiwanese street food such as pork puff, flaky scallion pancake, braised pork rice, oyster omelet...... and they really liked it! 

Matt with hot-star large fried chicken.

Banana and chocolate shaved ice. 

Before we eat the ice cream, let me take a selfie!

We wanted to get some beer but couldn't find bars around Xi Men area. After walking around the city for a while, we decided to take MRT to ZhongXiao Fuxing 忠孝復興. 

There are heaps of Japanese Sake bars around this area. We found this bar 無雙. Orion buy one get one free during 9-10pm and it was 8:55pm! 

Matt and his Orions!

Jamie and the Orions!

We didn't plan to order any food because we just had dinner. The people who were sitting next to us, they ordered lots of food and all looked soooo delicious. So we had a tasty grilled beef and another grilled pork! :D

Daddy Mark wanted us to pose like that! So weird!!! :D But yeah, it was a fun night. 

Day 2 07.16.2014 Picnic day! 

Me and Trista. 

What a nice weather today! We decided to go to picnic! :)

At Da'an forest park. 

We bought some chips and beers, played music and laid down on the grass. It was so relaxing. 

I was taking selfie of Trista's new sun glasses!

So, I wanted to climb and he was trying to help me jump on the tree. But...... it didn't work. :D

Matt the Australian monkey! 

My sleeping beauty. :D

I looked like I wanted to kill cockroaches! 

Taking crazy and funny selfies at da park!

It was a nice afternoon picnicking and chilling at the park. We all had a great time. Bye bye Da'an forest park! 

After Trista went home, Me, Matt and Mark we went to the Beer and Cheese Social House. It is located just on the east side of Da'an park.

It is a small but nice bar with huge letters spelling out BEER above the bar.  

We ordered a classic American grilled cheese sandwich, a spicy jalapeño grilled cheese sandwich and a Dutch blue grilled cheese sandwich.

Look at that amount of CHEESE!! 

They were all so delicious for sure. I could eat way more than one!

They have many kinds of tasty beers like Elysian, Brewdog...... The beer was so good. We kept ordering it! 

On my way back to Trista's place. It was a beautiful night.

Day 3 07.17.2014  Time to say goodbye! 

Me, Trista and Matt met up at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall. It was too hot to walk around so we just sat down and watched young people dancing. 

After a while, we went to 7-11 to have ice cream and drinks. It was a short morning because I had to get my ass on the bus at 4 o'clock to Dongshi. 

These three days has been awesome and fun. It was really fun hanging out in Taipei and laughing with you guys all the time. I'm glad that you and your daddy have came to Taiwan and I hope I was being a good tour guide. :D Hope to see you and your daddy again someday. Ciao!

And, thank you Trista for hosting me. You're an extremely nice and fun girl. Although it's actually our first time met in person, I felt like we've already known each other for a long time. It's a shame that we live in different cities. I hope I'll see you again in Taipei or Kaohsiung soon!! It'd be super fun to spend more time and party with you. Love you my girl. 

Goodbye Taipei.