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The 4th day, or 2nd day at Taipei City, our itinerary includes visiting Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall Station (Sun Zhong Shan), and then a walk to Taipei 101 building.

Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall
We took trains to the station and upon coming out, you’ll see the Big Memorial Hall. There will always be a demonstration of soldiers changing parades and guarding the statue of Mr Sun Yat-Sun. There are many history artifacts, pictures and articles dating to how China break free from its communist state at 1911 and how Taiwan came about, so they claim him to be “Guo Fu” (Father of the nation).

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Taipei 101
After visiting this for about 1 hours +, we left for Taipei 101. In fact we walked over, but I suggest to take a cab. It cost like TWD30 ? And it will save you about 10 mins.

A must go if you are at Taipei City. But I didn’t go up this tall building, and I think you have to pay some fees to get up there. Anyway Its a commercial center with many International MNC prescence here. Oh yeah and its the TSE, Taiwan Stocks Exchange.

Wu Fen Pu
After lunch, we headed to Wu Fen Pu. Alight at Hou Shan Pi Train station and a short walk to reach there. This market place is a place with designer t shirts, many many types of clothings, sold (distributed) at a warehouse wholesale level, though there’s a mixture of individual shops that cater to retail shoppers. You might get lost here, as as much as I wanted to remember my way where I came from, eventually I got lost and had to get help.

As a guy, there aren’t much selection, but for ladies there are quite alot of selection. I bought 4 t shirts there and it costs about $4 USD per T shirt, simple and plain stuff. As a lady well…

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And then I broke off with my travel mates since they are girls and needed more time for shopping.
My dinner was at a local shop nearby, very quiet with like 4-5 customers.

Dinner
It was a vegetarian food (some healthy food was needed else we’ll go fat very fast), and here you grab your food one by one (Rice, veges, Tou Fu, and some nice food etc), then you bring to the counter and the boss will charge you accordingly (something different from Singapore) . It was nice and cheap, an experience on how the locals do their daily bread and butter living.

And speaking of 7-Eleven shops, they sell tons of variety drinks (Fruit juices, milk tea, and special mix of fruits and milk tea), those that I don’t see at my home’s 7 Eleven. And it was a trip back to Hotel to rest, and some shopping at the Watson’s at Xi Men Ding, which is opposite Xi Men train Station.