After a long tiring day at Maokong, Day 3 started with something a little more relaxed. While Hong Kong is a very tea-culture place, Taipei seems to enjoy coffee quite a bit, and our first stop was to Fong Da for a good cup and breakfast.
The coffee is pretty good, and the shop here has been doing some cool stuff way before other cafes were making it "trendy".
Our next stop was a very "Singaporean" one, Ding Tai Fung.
Honestly I wasn't expecting much from the food there and true enough, it was good, not great, but I figured it was something that needed to be checked off the list once and for all.
Our next stop during the trip was to check out the Chiang Kai Shek memorial. This was kind of off our original plan, but since there was time, we figured why not, and headed to take a look at the place.
I'm not one to visit touristy sites such as this but figured why not.
When we got to the top of the memorial, we were about time to check out the changing of guards, so hung around to take a look. It was a long process, and there were a lot of steps involved, we were lucky to get an upclose view so we got to see them in action.
Next stop in our journey was a Cat Cafe which we found online at the last minute as well. Cafes weren't really planned in our itinerary but we figured what the heck, and went to take a look.
Gotta admit, the cats at the cafe were a lot more friendly than the ones in Singapore, though honestly most of the time they'd still rather be sleeping than playing...cats are cats after all.
Next and last stop before dinner was a trip up Elephant Hill, a long stair climb that was not really a running trail, but a good vertical challenge if you're keen.
The hike did take quite awhile and as usual, Shufen was way better than I am at the stairs, damn.
The journey up was not for nothing though, and the view was rather rewarding, though admittedly it could be nicer without all that haze. Still, it was an awesome ascend.
Our last location before calling it a day was at Mitsui Cuisine, a Japanese restaurant I've read a few times about when googling about places to eat in Taipei.
I wasn't sure what to order, and hence went for their set. I'm not a huge sashimi fan and hence found it hard to appreciate some of the dishes, but overall the meal was fantastic! Definitely worth the journey here.
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