Because the bridal shop we chose was a Taiwanese outfit, the package included a pre-wedding photoshoot in Taiwan. This was great news to us because we earlier agreed we would never do our photoshoot in Singapore; imagine prancing around in a tuxedo or long gown in Singapore’s startling scorching afternoons. Not good.

So off we trooped to Taipei, taking the chance to enjoy a 1-week holiday :)

With so many “Taiwanese Oyster Mee Sua” shops in Singapore, there’s nothing like trying the original – complete with the experience of gulping it down by the street side. Just for records, we didn’t like it :( It was starchy and rather bland; condiments (chilli, pepper & garlic) were do-it-yourself style.

One of the tourist-y things we did was to climb take a lift up Taipei 101, supposedly the tallest building in the world (?). The “tallest building in the world” is perpetually contentious.

I’ve no idea what I was pointing at.

We also tried several themed cafes that the Taiwanese are so famous for; one of which was the P.S. Bubu cafe, which featured refurbished (parts of) cars. The food was surprisingly more-than-edible, especially since cute-looking places don’t usually dish out yummy fare.

Another themed cafe we visited was the Modern Toilet restaurant.

You sit on refurbished toilet bowls and eat on covered bath tubs.

The food too, tends to look like something you’d rather not consume…

The dessert was more-than huge.

We also hiked to some random part of Taipei, in search of a good (& non-dodgy looking) 温泉 (“hot spring”). We found one that claimed to have water piped directly from some elusive mountain… but looked just like any good old spa jacuzzi.

We also visited a shopping mall shaped like a huge golf ball – Core Pacific City. It had a really awkward structure, and was touted as a “tourist draw”, but we really couldn’t find much to do… other than ride up and down the mega long escalator.

Our favourite part of the day were the evenings, when the night markets were open – we visited every single one of them! Even the boring ones…

We had some “traditional Taiwanese fare” by a roadside hawker – till now, we still have no idea what we ate. It was gooey.

And lastly, the photoshoot that we did… Despite bringing our camera along, we were too busy enjoying ourselves to take pictures, other than the one Mr took of me when he was waiting for me to get made up (took all of 2 hours!).