Day 3: It's Chow Time!

It was a lazy Monday. There was no motivation for us to rise early since we had only returned to the hotel at about 12.30am after the lantern festival. It was only when our stomachs started to call that we decided to make our way to Taiwan's iconic building - Tapie 101. We knew there was a food court at Taipei 101 but what my wife and I had longed to dine as how the locals do.

As we walked, our eyes scanned every small lane we came across. From a distance, we saw that the sidewalks along Section 1, Da'An Road were a little bit more lively. Well, we saw this small eatery and we did our mental checks.

Small shop, tick. Only locals, tick. Signs totally in Chinese, tick. soup noodle, tick, tick, tick!

Once again, the menu proved to be too complex for my rusty knowledge of the language. That's good, because what I did was to pick out a noodle and a soup dish. So my wife had the mala lamian (NT45). It was really plain noodles with vegetable and mala sauce. Nothing to crow about when I had a chopstick full of her noodles. The mala was not even spicy. For me, I had the fishball and meatball soup. This Taiwanese eatery has an interesting way of making their fishball. Looked to me like a pointy head with meat in the centre.

Well, it was a good experience, if not for the food, then at least for the crowd.