Travel Log: A Short Romp in Taipei (Day 2 & 3)

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Destination: Taipei, Taiwan
Duration: 3 Days 2 Nights (Jan 15 ~ Jan 17, 2012)

Day 2: Taipei

Day 2 in Taipei was basically working working working and food food food.

Breakfast in Westin Hotel was great! They actually served smoked salmon for breakfast! Oh mine, look at all those pretty little yoghurt stuffs!

The Bun is hard but the rest is yummy..

This is HEAVEN!!!

More Heaven!

Can i eat this everyday for breakfast?

Roasted pork & smoked salmon...

After breakfast I met up with my boss and our marketing guy at the hotel lobby to go office together. After that – it was WORKING WORKING WORKING.

A view from Office...

Our Taipei counterpart decided to take us to a Japanese owned Italian restaurant for lunch since my boss is an American and they were concerned that he might not like Taiwanese food. We had to walk there and I must say I was totally embarrassing myself by falling in front of my boss during the short walk! UGH!!! Can I claim SOCSO for this?

Anyhoo, the food in that restaurant was great! We had our own set of soup, tapa, main course & dessert and they ordered buy 1 free 1 lemonade and thin crust pizza for sharing. Yummy!!!

Water & Lemonade

The Set Lunch from Bellini Italian Restaurant

Bread & Olive Oil & Vinegar

The Antipesto

Pizza! With ingredient separated! Yummy!

The crust is really thin & really wonderful!

The 4 Cheese Pizza

The Soup

The Beef Main Course

The Fish Main Course - with Cheese on Top! Yummy!!!

The Fruit Tea - kind of sweet

The Dessert is Heavenly!!!

Colleagues in Taiwan

More Colleagues in Taiwan

After lunch it was WORK WORK WORK again and apparently we stayed at the office until 7.15pm and finally walked to our dinner place – a high-end Thai restaurant. My boss and the marketing guy ordered pineapple fried rice, roasted pork, tom yam seafood soup, fried shrimp cake & green curry chicken to share among ourselves. The restaurant was jammed packed so I guess it was a popular hangout for local as well. The food looked and tasted great! After dinner and some small talk, it was already around 10pm so we went back to the hotel and prepared to leave Taipei the next day.

Our Marketing Specialist!!!

The Boss!

The restaurant interior...

More Interior - posh & trendy

Beer!

Chili Sauce

Pineapple Fried Rice

Green Chicken Curry

Deep-fried shrimp cake...

Roasted Pork

Tomyam Soup

Day 3: Taipei -> Hong Kong -> Penang

I got to enjoy the hotel breakfast 1 last time before departing to the airport. Look at the pastries! =p

Enjoying Breakfast in Westin...

The Yoghurt Drink is wonderful..

Look at this!!! *Gasp*

Oh  mine!!!

I'm so screwed!!! FAT!!!

My beloved smoked salmon platter

One thing stood out from the departure hall of TaoYuan Airport – a Hello Kitty self check-in station for EVA Air! Oh my God, it was so cute! Luckily my boss was on a different flight so I could so all the embarrassing stuff myself. I managed to grab some last minute souvenir for my colleagues and started to SKYPE chat during my whole waiting time at the Hello Kitty Gate.

Leaving Westin Hotel

Waiting for the ride...

Random Building from Taxi on the way to Airport

Hello Kitty Self Check-in Counter!!!

Strange Combination - EVA & Kitty.. Taiwanese & Japanese...

Look at this!

Have a nice trip!

Waiting for the flight.. CX 487...

Even restroom exterior looks nice!

Public Phones!

Nursery Room in the airport

The Airport

The Glass Pond

Can you believe this is the departure gate?

Hello Kitty Gift Shop

Hello Kitty Goes Travel!

Of course i have to take a photo with her!

I want these!

How to draw a Hello Kitty?

Hello Kitty Everywhere!

Even the Chair is Kitty!

CNY Hello Kitty!

Autumn Festival Hello Kitty

Dragon Boat Hello Kitty

Hello Kitty in some Taiwanese Festival? Spring Festival perhaps?

Hello Kitty eating mooncake...

This is so cute!

Public Phone again!

Hello Kitty Worldtime!

It was a Dragonair plane and it was not equipped with TV. The plane was half empty again and I had the whole 3 seats to myself. I was served chicken rice and pipeapple cake. It tasted ok.

Chicken Rice - the chicken tastes gingerly...

The plane landed in Hong Kong and I had a 2 ½ hour layover for the plane to Penang. Little did I know that the plane had been delayed again! This time it was mechanical failure! Holy Shit! Would the plane explode in 30000 feet after takeoff? Guess I watched too much “Final Destination”! *facepalm* My 3.20pm flight ended up only departed at around 4.30pm. What a disaster! Thank God for Skype else I would be bored to death.

I was starving by the time they served the dinner so I guess everything tasted good during that! It was spaghetti with fish basically as CX didn’t show us any menu and such. I finally reached Penang at around 7.30pm and ended the rushed trip.

Fish & Spaghetti meal with Strawberry Mousse