Melody at the High Speed Rail station in Tainan, a breakfast bun place near the Tsai residence.

The National Palace Museum, Melody and her Grandmother at a Danish fort in Tainan.

The Tsai sisters, who love the stripes, at Tainan’s first school.

Hsin Chu night market.

Mitchell and Marisa Shrimping.

Tainan Treehouse.

Weiwei shrimping.

Yehliu.

The next day Melody decided to pose for the camera on Yong Kang street, just before heading out to Tainaan (which I will cover on a later post).

Taipei Main station.

A cool compass rose on the floor of Taipei Main station.

We were in a rush to get to Tainaan, getting ready to catch the next train on the High Speed Rail.

Here is Xiao Ding Dong, or a little breakfast place that the Tsai family loves for Taiwan breakfast.

To relive the Tsai family tradition, we all went to Seven Eleven for some slurpees after breakfast.

Random car, parked too close to the building.

Tsai family women looking through old picture albums.

The next day I convinced the Tsai trio to hang out with Wei-Wei, we decided to go to the Taipei Story house. This is just the front yard, which was beautiful.

The Story House.

The sign up front.

Taipei International Flora Exposition.

Later in the day, we went to the Taipei National Palace Museum. Unfortunately Marisa thought the exhibits were boring, and we were not able to take any pictures except for the actual building.

The National Palace Museum.

After the museum, I really wanted to go fishing for shrimp. It was one of the most fun experience and I had to have more.

Wei Wei with the first shrimp.

The bait.

Patient Mel with her rod in hand.

Yay a shrimp!

Wait, where did the shrimp go?

Mitchell and Marisa attempting to get the shrimp off the hook, FAIL!

Shrimp Skewering.

And broiling.

Would you like some?

Our feast after all the hard work.

Another Taiwan breakfast shop, this time some soy based breakfast soup.

And lastly, our last meal before heading to Hsin Chu for Mitchell’s wedding.

In Taizhong, we walked around the Taizhong park and I found a heart shaped cut out in this tree.

After the park, we went to the Taizhong “night” market which was extremely busy and ate a lot of food. This was one of my brother’s favorite foods, the huge salt and pepper chicken with Melody as my model.

After the market, we had an hour wait so we decided to get our haircut. But my haircut took way longer then usual and thus caused us to miss our train back. It was a hectic scramble back to the station with our taxi running red lights and speeding. Well we caught the next train back.

The following day we went to the Taipei flower market to look at the local plants and novelties. Here was the first picture I took with a couple in the background of the azaleas.

And a random fish tank that I found with the old school floating fish in the tank.

After the market, we decided to try to take my uncle to Taipei 101, but it was such a bad day that we couldn’t go up to the top. On the way there, a wishing tree was found with many wishes for the new year.

We walked around Warner Village and a special night market was situated inside.

After Taipei 101, we went to meet up with some relatives and eat some shanghai food. This restaurant was famous for their chicken soup and this shows the massive amounts of pots making soup for customers.

Tons of visitors around Asia visit to either ask these questions for the new year.

Afterward, we were waiting for the time to meet up with Sammy so we decided to buy a grapefruit like fruit and eat. Here is the sign to the stand.

Sammy looking around the corner after a failed attempt to bargain with a street vendor. Melody was then used to negotiate to no avail.

And our dinner was at a famous Dragon Dumpling place in Taipei called Ding Tai Fung. I have been to the original store as well as both hosted in Los Angeles. Everytime I visit, I leave with the same satisfied stomach. Here is a picture of a worker trying to assemble this delicious little snack.