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- gorgeous scenery
- friendly people: as evidenced by MRT chats and the fifty times someone was nice enough to give me directions
- cheap delicious food (5 pork buns for $.50?? come onnn. large bubble teas for $1??)
- the NIGHT MARKETS–the atmosphere, the food, the free samples
- din tai fung (where else could you possibly see dumplings being hand made and get tea poured 5 feet from the cups?)
- the M R T. cleanest, most efficient pub transportation system (gum not allowed)
- the pace. it’s so slow and easy and the opposite of stressful
- the TEA, picking tea and bringing it home was something else
- the supremely cozy cat cafes
- the 24 hour bookstores
- how safe it was to walk around at night in the city as a woman, esp as a foreigner
- its expansive zoo
- its theater
- the BAKERIES (brownie mochi anyone??)
- the niu rou mian
- the lu rou fan
- the GINORMOUS man tou
- taipei 101