Ginormous dumplings soup

Simple hidden hole in the wall shop serving soup with oversized dumplings near SYS memorial (國父紀念館). Really, this place looks like any other mom 'n pop establishment here in Taipei. Old peeling white wallpaper, with cheapo stools around a heavily scratched table. But the lack of environment is overshadowed by the great dumpling soup. Calculating in at a measly ~$50NT (i think), the soup and dumplings have that simple traditional taste to really works on a cold rainy day and you don't have a lot of change to spare. And don't forget the gigantic dumplings! They're huge! It looks like a normal dumpling that was subjected to radiation and mutated into a three headed dumpling monster. I forget how many dumplings they give you, two possible three, but that's enough to fill my stomach for the evening. They have mala 麻辣 flavored ones too. That makes me happy!

溫州大餛飩
106台灣台北市大安區忠孝東路四段312號 (No exact address, but this address is Capone's which is next door)
(02)27818911

4 Gorillas climbing 101

I spent the day with Lucy, HaTwin and Kurt. We visited the Chiang Kai-shek memorial and the museum along with it. There was much to see in the museum, including a creepy wax figure of him, his Cadillac limo, several pictures and books and uniforms. Next we took the MRT to Sun Yat-sen memorial. Despite being the "Father of Taiwan", it doesn't look as nice as Chiang Kai-shek's memorial. By this time, it was getting late so we walked over to the 101 and decided to eat in the basement level. The funniest moment was when HaTwin carved Lucy's face into her Yakult/Passion fruit gelato. You must look through the photos here. After lunch, we headed up to the 101 viewing balcony. I must say, viewing from inside through the large windows is much better than outside. The vertical metal barriers and protruding guard rails really block the view outside. Being the funny group we were, we all combined our money to be Enlarged. Think Honey I Shrunk the Kids. We then went outside and hung off the 101 building like giant King Kong gorillas. Kurt fell. Butterfingers!

When we were shrunk back to our original sizes, we headed over to the Ximending night market for dinner at the famous Modern Toilet. Delicious bubbling curry in a toilet shaped bowl, drinks in a urinal cup and choco-poop desert in a squat hole. What more needs to be said? MMmmmmmmm! In a restaurant like this, dirty toilet jokes were inevitable. It was a FUN day!

Oh and I almost forgot. We had Taipei 101 Beer Floats too. Yes, it's vanilla ice cream floating in Taiwan beer. It's like a root beer float, but with real beer. Kurt believes it's going to be the next food evolution. Just you watch, beer floats are going to spread world-wide and be a Taiwan originated phenomenon. Haha. It was kind of disgusting.