On Sunday we had a free day so we pretty much got to do whatever we wanted to do. In the morning we took the MRT to Longshan Temple. This temple was built in 1738 and is the center of worship in the Wanhua District.

We then went to go eat at a famous dumpling restaurant called Din Tai Fung, near Taipei 101. We got shrimp fried rice, egg, tomato, and tofu soup, the original dumplings, vegetable dumplings, and red bean dumplings for desert. I never thought I would eat sweet frijoles wrapped in pastry dough for desert, but they were actually pretty good. Everything was delicious and we even got to watch the dumplings being made. We also found out that there are restaurants in the US, two in California and one in Washington. YUM!

Original

Vegetable

Red bean

After lunch we walked to Taipei 101, got our tickets, and rode the “world’s fastest elevator to the 89^th floor. We started on the 5^th floor and it only took us 37 seconds to reach the top, can you believe that!? As we were going up my head felt like it was going to explode because of how much pressure was building up in it. It was quite foggy/smoggy, but we had a beautiful 360 degree view of Taipei. Taipei 101 is actually the world’s second tallest building standing at a towering 508 meters.

Later that evening we took the MRT to Danshui, a sea-side district in northern Taiwan to watch the sunset. It was beautiful! After the sunset we took a ferry ride back to the night market in town to eat some street food. I had squid balls, star fruit juice, goose, shrimp with mayo and ice cream sprinkles, clams, oysters, mussels and I even tried me some Taiwanese beer. I had a lot of fun here and I hope I can go back before leaving Taiwan.