This post is continued from Hello Taipei #1.

More than four hours later, we're finally preparing to make a landing at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport.

Upon reaching the hotel, we walked to the nearby Ximending (西門町) - a place which I've heard of for so many times but it's my first time there. By then I was really hungry and we were trying to look for this very famous stall selling Vermicelli / Flour Rice Noodles.

And after quite some time (Ximending is a pretty big place and it's pretty easy to get lose in there), we finally found Ah Zhong Mian Xian (阿宗麵線).

What's so special about this stall is that from what I've heard, there's no chairs for you so customers will buy and eat it standing with the bowl in hand. But now, they've placed a few chairs outside.

You can read more about the stall here.

However though, I don't find it special. It's just a cheap normal bowl of 麵線. I was more interested in the other mobile makeshift stalls though.

When you go to Taiwan, you need to eat Taiwan Sausages. But they don't call it Taiwan Sausages over there since they're selling it in Taiwan. They're just normal sausages.

It's pretty idiotic when you order a bowl of Laksa by saying 'Singapore Laksa' over here in Singapore.

This stall is even more special though, they have many different flavours of sausages - including chocolate!

I ordered the one with Coriander because I love the smell of this herb. I can eat this all day long!

Then I walked past a stall selling Fried Oysters. Didn't want to buy at first because I think nothing beats Singapore's version of Fried Oysters but the stall owner called me handsome and I decided to order.

True enough, I still prefer the version back at home.

And then there's this shop selling Ice Jelly with Pearl. Nowadays, you can literally throw the black tapioca pearls into anything and it will sell. Still waiting for people to start selling Laksa with Pearls though.

But what I love about this drink is the shop's name. In English - Oh, Frog lay eggs!

Update: Up next, Hello Taipei #3.

It's been quite some time since I last travelled up north beyond Malaysia. The last time was in September 2008, a trip to Hong Kong.

Fast forward to three years later, I boarded a plane that will take me to Taipei. Taipei is the capital of the Republic of China, or more commonly known as Taiwan.

A video of the flight during takeoff. I love taking videos because a video is worth a thousand photos. And here are some photos up in the air!

Flying right above the sea I hate the most, South China Sea. And I still have to sail there a few more times before I ORD.

As we're nearing the airport in Taiwan, I saw a rainbow.

The world is so beautiful. But as some of you might know, I don't like to flood a post with many photos. I'm just going to end here for now and continue some other time.

Update: Up next, Hello Taipei #2.

Leaving for Taiwan on a plane for holidays in a few hours time.

I have to specifically put that because whenever I tell people that I'm going to Taiwan, their initial reaction would be me sailing there with the Navy.

Update: And oh I just realised, it's September 11.

I went for my driving lesson today, getting ready to brush up on my skills or pick up something new.

Everything started out smooth as usual as I drove out of the pick-up point and I felt pretty impressed with myself after I got through a few obstacles. But this form wasn't meant to last as I stalled the vehicle when I wanted to move off from the traffic junction.

I always see myself as a person who does things really well and I smugly thought I could really control the vehicle well by doing things which I'm not familiar with yet - really quickly. Things ultimately went downhill for the rest of the lesson from there as I forgot the basics when I wanted to excel quickly.

There's a really good saying, I want to run before I even learn how to walk. That over-confidence in myself has brought me more harm than good today.

Time to put my feet back on the ground and tell myself that I'm not that awesome afterall.

Here's a video of our hotel room at Berjaya Times Square during my recent trip to Kuala Lumpur. Be warned though, there's some very offensive language towards the end of the video.

Can't wait to travel again.