Taipei City
Taipei is a very nice City in Asia, you can enjoy anything you like, the populations in Taipei City about 6000000 six million
National Palace Museum, with its antique collection amounts to nearly 700,000 pieces whose age range covers almost the entire five-thousand-old Chinese history, has made itself the greatest and priceless treasure house regarding Chinese art on earth. Among the collection, you may enjoy Chinese earthen ware like pottery, porcelain, as well as bronze, jade ware, sculpture, embroidery, calligraphy and paintings, each piece is a true curio. For having been renowned for its abundance and artistic value world widely, the collection at Palace Museum is one of the main attractions to a considerable number of visitors everyday.
After admiring all those ancient treasures, you could stroll out of the Palace gate, take a rest at the lovely Chi-Shan Garden right ahead. The garden was planned and constructed based on " The Foremost Running Script" by Wang Hsi-chih, so as to show the best part of elegant beauty in Chinese gardens. Of course it is worth taking yourself there! Besides, Yang-Ming-Shan National Park, CKS Memorial Hall , as well as the Presidential Building, are wonderful spots for tourists to stop by a while.
Yongkang Street, Tianmu, Ximending, the East District shopping area, and Fuxing South Road (which specializes in rice gruel and small accompanying dishes) are all major culinary concentrations in Taipei. Tianmu (with its foreign atmosphere) and Yongkang Street, especially, are home to vast arrays of restaurants that offer an infinite variety of eats including dishes from all over the world as well as traditional Chinese foods and the tastes of different parts of Taiwan.
The Chinese food available in Taiwan covers the gamut from palace cuisine to street-stall snacks, and all have their characteristic--and delicious--flavors. The palace-style dishes served at Din Tai Fong and King Join attract numbers of tourists every day, and the allure of the snacks sold in Taipei's night markets makes them truly irresistible--Longshan Temple and the night markets at Huaxi Street, Shilin, Tonghua Street, Raohe Street, Liaoning, and Jingmei, among others, all have their own special snacks giving off aromas that draw in diners from far and wide.
Huaxi Street is the most famous night market in Taipei, and every day it sees numbers of both domestic and foreign tourists. The best-known snacks available here, probably, are snake meat and snake wine; other prominent delicacies include potside stickers, Tainan danzai noodles, bowl rice, water-turtle meat, and seafood. Compared with other night markets this one has a greater emphasis on attracting tourists; so its class is not very low, and its prices are also a bit higher than others. The nearby Longshan Temple has a row of blind masseurs in front waiting to loosen you up, and "Herb Lane" just next door is another point that you will not want to miss.
Taipei is an international city with a very convenient traffic network. The transportation vehicles include MRT, bus, train and taxi.
