Taipei

[fasternyou929]

Originally Posted by Cruzergirl

So, now that you are finally arrived, what is there to do?

Show other people how to do my job so I can get laid off in the next couple months.

Originally Posted by karl_1052

CHeck under the skirts before you pay for hookers.

That's Thailand, now Taiwan.

[LeeNetworX]

Originally Posted by fasternyou929

show other people how to do my job so i can get laid off in the next couple months.

fml!

[buzzcutt2]

Check the labels on some products...see if they all say "Made here"

[shmike]

Originally Posted by buzzcutt2

Check the labels on some products...see if they all say "Made here"

[fasternyou929]

Originally Posted by LeeNetworX

fml!

Indeed!

Originally Posted by Cruzergirl

So, now that you are finally arrived, what is there to do?

Turns out Taipei is a pretty big city with about 2.5M residents, so it's on the scale of Chicago. There's an absolutely insane number of restaurants and shops lining most of the streets here. Today one of the guys took me to a noodle soup restaurant rated #2 last year in the annual "noodle soup cook-off" here in Taipei. Great flavor, super spicy! If I were here longer I might return, but with such a short trip I hate to do repeats.

Visited Taipei 101 today which has an outdoor deck on the 89th floor, so that made it a little different than visiting the Sears Tower or Hancock building when I lived in Chicago. From up there you can see the mountains that break up the skyline across Taipei which I thought was unique. Not too many big cities built right on mountain chains.

Tomorrow I'm going to try getting down to Shihlin Nightmarket, basically a big outdoor food and flea market atmosphere. And, weather permitting, I want to visit at least one museum and/or temple before I leave Friday morning.

I knew very little about Taiwan before coming here, but having visited for a few minutes, I'm really liking it. It shares a lot of similarities with Beijing, but thankfully the air quality is much better (comparable to any city in the US, but better than L.A.).

[marko138]

Really, no takers on the 90's computer game. Weak.

[fasternyou929]

Here are a few pictures from the trip that I figured would appeal to the masses here. Quite a few MotoGP fans around there!

Every single road was filled with scooters parked like this. Unreal how many there are. And each intersection has a huge box blocked off for mopeds only, so when the light turns green you hear 40-50 scooters all ham fisting it at the same time. Pretty entertaining watching them all weave through traffic and one another (saw a lot of 50cc, 125cc, 250cc, and a few 450cc).

[fasternyou929]

Not one comment on the Rossi scooters? Tough crowd!

[karl_1052]

I never even noticed the second one, I thought it was the new R1.

[shmike]

Originally Posted by fasternyou929

Not one comment on the Rossi scooters? Tough crowd!

I actually like the second one.

The first is so wrong I don't know where to begin:

Is it a 4-wheeled wannabe trike?

I love the Yamaha paint job and the Honda decal.