First meal I had in Taiwan!

It was almost 10pm+ after we found (it took a while before we found our hotel, we took the wrong turn and ended up walking a big round before we reached our hotel) and checked in at our hotel (Taipei CityInn Hotel 新驛旅店). After we placed our luggage in our room, without wasting much time, we headed out again, to find food for supper (dinner at 5pm+ on eva airways). This will be the first meal we had in Taipei!

There are quite a few shops selling food just opposite the hotel we stayed but only one still opened at 10pm+ (this shop opened 24 hours if i'm not mistaken). So we decided to have our first meal here..

This is the shop.
Seriously I don't know
what's the name of this shop.
hehe..Did you see any name?

It is quite small, just enough for a few tables.
I did see a lot of locals eating here, mostly take away.

This was on our table.. Totally no idea what is it.
I think it's some kind of chili gua..
we did try a bit bit, hehe, taste ok lar, spicy...

FL decided to order the Lu Rou Fan 鲁肉饭 (minced meat rice) when he saw it on the menu. This is one of the must eat food in Taiwan wor.. definitely have to try lar..As for me, I opt for something soupy..

Lu Rou Fan 鲁肉饭 (minced meat rice) ,
nt 25 (about RM 2.9)

FL was a bit disappointed when he saw the bowl of rice. Why? becos it's sooooo little!! wuaahahahahhahahaha... We didn't know can order big one, else he definitely take the big one, instead of the small one.

mee with pickled vege and meat
榨菜肉丝面, nt 55 (RM 6.50)

This is really nice, the taste of the soup is light and with the combination of pickled vege and meat, it really brings out the taste. and the mee... i think is hand made one.. very very nice!!

dumplings 水饺, nt 45 (RM 5.3)

You won't believe it, 10 dumplings for only RM 5.3? I don't think we can get this in Malaysia. As for the black colored sauce, I think it's soy sauce + oyster sauce. Unlike our soy sauce, theirs is not that salty.. YUMMY!!

A super delicious and satisfying meal (altogether nt 125, which is equivalent to RM 14.70)! Although it's winter but we don't feel cold at all. Maybe it's because of the hot meal we just had (we sweat some more ler.. ).. After our supper, we went to walk around but most of the shop already closed. So we headed back to our hotel and went to the convenient store next to our hotel to buy some drinks and phone card (wanted to call back home and also called my brother that is currently studying in taiwan). When we asked them about the phone card, they told us we can only get it at 7-11.

So we decided to go to the 7-11 which is also nearby to buy the phone card. They did not give us any plastic bag after we paid and since we're going to 7-11, I can't possibly hold two cold drinks in my hand mar, (some more later 7-11 thought I buy from there and never pay leh) so I asked for a plastic bag and was surprised that we need to pay nt 1 for the plastic bag (if i know i need to pay i will hold the drinks in my hand lar..hehe..). They said their gov discourage ppl use plastic bags. They really did a pretty good job in protecting the environment!

plastic bags nt 1(RM 0.10)
and drinks + sweets, nt 103(RM 12.10)

So that's the end of our Day 1 in Taiwan..