hand-painted lanterns for the lantern festival.
Modern car pooling!
taipei has a 7-11 on every corner.
The smell of ginger and garlic cooking in people's kitchens is amazing.
A typical residential side street in downtown.
People fix up the entrance to their buildings with miniature gardens.
Amazing Vietnamese food.
A little breakfast spot.
A grocery store for rich people. The night market is much more fun for grocery shopping!
Eating in the shopping mall is a lot more involved than in the US.
Crab!
TP 101, the tallest building in the world.
Sean crashed the little kids party to pose with a panda.
The flower market.
Jade Market
Hotel Lobby
New Year's decorations
Pretty nice hallways in the hotel.
Year of the mouse on TP 101.
Dinner!
Pet Store
The night market by the hotel. The best food in town!
The Banh Mi lady. She spoke no English, I spoke no Taiwanese. We had 3 Vietnamese words in common. But, the Banh Mi was excellent!
Fish heads anyone?
Banh Mi Cart
The other end of the night market.
One of the best kitchens in the market.
We called her "Martha Stewart". She gives cooking classes while she makes your dinner.
Cooking-Fu
The recycling ladies come out and pull recyclable materials out of the trash for cash.
A Taipei alley.
This lady was in love with Sean.
Scallion omelettes!
This kitchen never closes.
One of the small, local temples.
Fog coming in very quickly.
Many of the buildings had colored lights which change constantly.
The base of TP101.
Sean and Robert.
Where will I ever find a Kirin glass like this?
My softshelled crabs! An unforgettable meal. 10 out of 10!
Metal sculptures.
More hand-painted lanterns
A sleepy Buddha on a back street of Taipei.
The night of the eclipse.
Taiwanese hamburgers.
Some of the night market kitchens sell a LOT of food.
Banh Mi lady.
Seafood and snails.
Potstickers
I want some too!
We ended up hanging out in this kitchen and eating at a table in the middle.
They never stop frying this breakfast bread.
