Currency rate is about S$1 = NT$20.
At Taipei, you can go to Shihlin Night Market where you can find
snacks and fried chicken cutlet at NT$20, maybe you can get
imitation fashion wears from the street vendors that run at the
sight of police.
At Raohe Night Market, you can try the various stewed soups and
grilled sotong. Plenty of unqiue fashion wears and shoes and mobile
phone accessories available.
At Tonghua Night Market, it's a food and snack haven for people who
love to eat non-stop.
Lastly at HuaXi Night Market, you will find exotic food like monkey
brain, fried scorpions and stuff like that. Don't try the seafood
here cos very expensive. In this market, you can also find erotic
shops selling sex toys like full bodied blown-up dummies, vibrators
of different shapes and sizes, don't be surprised to find the
salesgirls cladded in translucent night gowns and lingeries. Snakes
are common sight here when you can have a sip of snake blood for
NT$100 which rumoured to boost your sexual performance.
In Taipei, you can also take the MTR to Tanshui where you can tour
the old colonial Dutch buildings, have relaxing tea in the themed
shops, get some souvenirs and taste the famous Ah Po Braised Eggs
and Bah Wan (meat puffs), take a stroll down to the Tanshui Old
Street and enjoy the old days of Taiwan.
There's a zoo at the end of Mucha line, but me didn't enjoyed
it.
Movie watching there is rather expensive at about NT$295 (roughly
S$14.50), shopping there is also a delight, you can go to Song Shou
Road where there's New York! New York!, Mitshikoshi Department
Store, Warner Movie Village and the Taipei World Trade
Centre.
Taipei has a red light district at Linshen North Road, where pubs
and karaokes are prevalent. If you are a tourist looking for sexual
favours, there are plenty shops of "Gua Yang Tou Mai Gou Rou"
(black shops). They can be identified by the dark tinted window
panels of the shops. Make sure to check for your personal
belongings after "enjoying" their services. Massage parlours are
plenty here where you can ask for "special services" by pretty
hostesses.
If not, you can go to shop around their equivalent of our Orchard
Road, ZhongXiao East Road, where you can find famous brands like
Armani, Versace, Gucci, Prada, Burberry, Chanel, Polo Ralph along
the high class street in Sect 4. Along Sect 2 to 3, you can find
Sogo, Tower Records and eatery shops like Ajisen and TGIF and
Swensen restaurants.
If you like quiet and serene areas, you can go to Keelung by taking
a train where you can find the famous Fisherman's Wharfs to eat
cheap and fresh seafood. If not, you can also go to Jiufen to enjoy
the half mountain scenics and taste the famous Taiwan's Dongding
Oolung Tea. Otherwise, you can take a trip up the famous Yangming
Mountain to try the saunas and springs, just be careful when you
ask for "special services" there, you will get "more" than you
bargain. For safer side, you can go to Peitou to try the sulphur
springs there.
It's all depending on your likings to decide where you want to go.
Just bring along about S$400 to S$500 (roughly about NT$8000 to
NT$10000) would be more than enough.
