Dining High and Low
As my mom keeps pointing out, Taipei is a place of many dining choices. One can either choose to eat at a sidewalk cart for a couple of bucks or spend lavishly at a posh restaurant. During this trip, we’ve done the opposite ends.
On the low end, we ate lunch at one of the many night markets. These markets are essentially large warehouses packed end to end with stalls selling everything from oyster omelettes (tastes much better than it sounds) to fruit juices to steaks. The environment is less than hygenic and the squalid conditions shocking (by Western standards anyway), but damn if the food isn’t good.
On the high end, we ate at one of restaurants in the Taipei 101 Tower, the tallest skyscraper in the world. Not much to mention here, these restaurants are just like any high-end places in the world. So the funny thing is that its much more interesting to eat at the local hangouts than at the fancy places.