Taipei Trip Day 1 - 1st July 2010

First time taking Jetstar, quite alright for a budget airline, though my return flight was not that smooth. My flight departs at 1350hr, the upcoming Jetstar flights to Taipei will all be departing in the morning so kind of missed out by half the day. Alternating between sleeping and listening to my Ipod Touch, I realised I really missed my in-flight entertainment haha.

After landing at Taoyuan Airport, it was after 1830hr. Took a bus from Guo Guang to go to Taipei Main Station, NT124 for single trip (if I remember correctly). Our hotel Royal Castle is located at Ximending, a short distance from the station. The entrance is bit unnoticeable and the lobby is quite small. Looks a bit old and the interior is more chinese-looking.

Almost thought they gave us a room without windows, but sliding the wooden frame mirror reveals the window.
The hotel adopts the water cooler system, so no daily bottled water provided. Which means you still have to buy a bottled water to store the water.

The small bathroom.

When we settled our luggage and everything, it was closed to 9pm. Happened to see that Watami opened till quite late so we went in. The meal was not that fantastic though, I think SG outlet is better.

Scallops and mushroom, the best tasting dish out of all that we ordered.

Tempura Udon, the tempura is kind of soggy and bland.

Hot green tea, the worst I have tasted. Though the waitress told me it's matcha, I didn't expect it to be so bitter. Adding the milk makes it tastes even more vile. Thankfully they provide free flow of oolong tea so I don't have to suffer that much. After that we just shop around the area, but the shops closed quite early so we head back to hotel around 11pm.