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Wooo you are gonna love this, if you love discounts!! :p

I mean, who doesn't love discounts, and furthermore,
enjoying the same deal as your friends & family but yet you are paying much lesser.

I know a lot of restaurants have credit cards' discounts,
and many a time, you will be discussing who has the various credit cards to settle the bill first within your group gatherings,
and now, if you are someone who:

1. Does not like to carry credit cards around (because of higher possibility to spend more)
2. Does not have the respective cards to enjoy discount at some places always
3. Does not own a credit card yet

FRET NOT.
Just at the tips of your finger, you can easily, conveniently obtain GREAT discounts at your hot favourite places,
just simply at TIP-IT! (click on the picture below to go into their website)

You might probably be wondering what is TIP-IT about at this moment,
and here's something I got from their website that will let you understand it right away.

TIP-IT is a website that introduces that latest happening discounts around,
and keep you in the loop of where are the special offers.
The above is an example of a "TODAY'S DEAL" of what they have just for you!

The great thing about them is not only food places, or rather, not only a category of promotions,
but they have a dedicated team to constantly source the whole island for great restaurants, spas, bars, clubs and shops.
Definitely an all-rounder for discounts and latest haps in Singapore. :p

And just like booking air-tickets,
i bet a lot of us frequent the airlines website to check out for cheap air fares in due to spot one to go on a holiday,
and air fares change accordingly to different days and timings etc,
here at TIP-IT, you can spot places to go for birthday dinner gatherings (or places that you already want to go),
and get discounts for that specific restaurant at TIP-IT site in return for a confirmation deal that can be enjoyed in the near future!

Absolutely no harm to just sign up and have an account with them,
with no obligations and get updated instantly with the up-to-date new promotions!
You might be craving for a manicure or a spa and just nice a uber great promotion came up in time,
you never know.

Here're more information about TIP-IT:

Like what their goal is :
To bring you as many great deals and help you save as much money as possible!

ENJOY SHOPPING FOLKS!

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Be back for TAIWAN DAY 3!
Here's a sneak

 

Cheers to bonitochico's 4th birthday bash,
and the launch of a new branding called Lovebonito.

How time flies from BC's 3rd birthday bash and till the 4th that just happened at Zirca,
and how overwhelming the turn out was,
also, the celebration for another year of hardwork and success for the three dear girls, Jie, Vel and Rach.
Yet another blessed year of witnessing all of those and being proud of who they are today.

Some behind the scenes pictures..

Balloons filled with love of air one by one.



A huge pool of goody bags, one for everyone!

Rehearsal in the morning.

Hair and Make up by Salon Vim, Loreal respectively.

 

Cool stuff.

Waiting for the show.

Daniel Ong as the emcee

The crowd

The finale
 

A picture with Jiayi and her friend jozique after the event.

Pictures at the backstage!

With tingzhi, wens and bel, mad gorgeous girls
 

Jerraine babe from Loreal.
 

Gary & Fiona from Salon Vim,
thanks to them for the awesome hairstyle!

I know every guy would die to stand in my place here. teehee

Ever lovely, ever gorgeous.

muaks

 
Post event- dinner @ dempsey.

The efficient, smart and ever so encouraging helpers!

<3

more <3

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[Continued...]

By the time we decided to leave Wu Fen Pu,
it was already about 9 plus at night. (WFP closes around 12)

Extremely tired from all the walking,
everybody that knows that after visitng wufenpu,
its just a stone throw to Rao He Night Market.

The junction to cross over to Rao He Night Market as we follow the road from Wufenpu.

Walking straight up and you will spot a temple.

Raohe Night Market is just beside the temple! on the left.

 
I personally prefer ShiLin Night Market as it is filled with shopping and food.
As for Raohe Night Market,
I would think its focus will be more on food and souvenirs.

We needed to find a place to sit so we ended up at this Tofu Pudding Shop.
They sell ice desserts like Mango ices, red bean etc,
and I love how generous they are with the fillings!

 

And being so Singaporean, we ordered one bowl of mango ice (yumz!)
and went to buy a lot of different street food to complete the meal. lol

Ma Jiang Mian.

Pig Organ soup

I love the Ji Pa from this store! NT50 = SGD $2.20
For a huge serving and the best part is we can choose the seasoning.

Would recommend you to ask the uncle to match the seasoning for you,
we tried the first one with their recommended seasoning and it was so good.
And we ordered another Ji Pa with Curry Seasoning,
and it wasn't at all tasty. 

As much as the MRT is really convenient around,
but we love taking the bus instead,
comfy and able to sit through the whole journey.

bus 276 to go back to Ximending from Raohe Night Market.

 

Reached, after about 20 minutes.

 
Ximending at Night.

It was a thursday, and we actually planned a night to visit their club.
So we arranged for this very night to go to their famous clubs- either 18 or Luxy.

Decided to pop over to 18 for clubbing,
we played dressed up and dressed in our loots from Taiwan
and spent 2 hours getting prepared.

And finally..

Shawn didn't wear the spects out, i'm sure.
 
We sat a cab there, and amazingly,
cab rates ain't that expensive there as I thought.
For our average journey around taipei area,
cab fare is about 100 NT to 180 NT (which is SGD $4.50 to SGD $10)

The cab dropped us in front of this other club called Lava.

We were looking hard for club 18 but couldn't find it,
and ended up walking one big round back to the same spot again.

The great thing is we discovered a small cart selling Taiwan Sausages!

 

Just like the sausages sold outside zouk,
the taiwan sausages were damn tasty!
 

We asked around and found 18 after a while,
its actually located at the 2nd level (no wonder!) of this building.
And to recognize the building, you can spot for this barcode signboard (see below),
and just walk into the lobby to take the lift up.

In the lift..

AND GUESS WHAT?!

Zzzzzzzzzz.
18 is not opened on Thursdays!!!
 

We were disappointed and wanted to switch to Luxy,
but realised that clubs in generally are not opened on thursdays,
not even for early drinks or so.

They only operate on Wednesdays (ladies night too), Fridays and Saturdays.

We hopped on to a cab again in search for some places to go for the night,
and the cab driver actually introduced us this supper place to go.

Located at Ba De Road.

 
Opened 24 hours.
Also located beside 50 lan bubble tea shop.
 

Upstairs.

Beef noodles soup

Ma Jiang and Za Jiang Mian mixed.
Their famous dish is their Ma Jiang Mian.

Wanton Soup.

Love this! Da Chang Tou, Pig intestines.

 
We looked absolutely out of place at this shop,
imagine us all dressed up (very) and sat there eating supper for the night. ;\

And it was back to the hotel for a brand new next day.

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Calling out to those girls who wished to have your hair permed or sraightened,
here's an absolutely fantastic deal for you,
proudly by Salon Vim.

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68847757 / 68847767

 

If you find that the above logo looks familiar,
or you somewhat seen before,
yes, it's TEE BOXX!

You must be thinking now what is TEE Boxx,
what do they do,
where are they from,
and that's why I am here for.

For a start, here's a hint on what TEE Boxx does,
as well as something exciting planned for you specially in the next few weeks!

Yeah bobs,
TEE Boxx is started up last year by two enterprising and inspiring entrepreneurs here locally in Singapore,
and since then, they have been actively working on their business model – Events.
They aim to bring enthusiastic and passionate hobbyists to every event,
and believes that every of its clients will have a blast of a time with them.

With TEE Boxx hosting and managing events just for you,
they have in fact, organized an upcoming FLEA MARKET – Gathering of Stars for everyone,
their first ever event right smack at one of the hottest locations in town, the supperclub.

Its not called Gathering of Stars for nothing!
Tee boxx has specially invited star bloggers to go down to the flea to sell their own items too,
and weeee, I bet it would be really cool to see them,
and remember to bring along your cameras to snap a picture or two!

And did i mention to you that they have a common goal?
Which is making each and every event a huge BANG!, together with the best responses and media attraction.

if you haven been to supperclub,
here's a sneak peek of what's in for you,
imagine yourself in one of the stalls in here (see below).

or here…

and here.


GETTING EXCITED?!

and you must be thinking of when are you getting your Ipad, or Iphone 4 now,
since you are clearing your wardrobe or house in a matter of weeks. :p

Here are more information:

Event Name
Gathering of Stars!
Venue
Supperclub, Odeon Towers,
331 North Bridge Road #02-01/08, Singapore 188720
Date & Time
11 September 2010 (Saturday), 11am – 8pm

Price: $65 per booth
Join their mailing list / / (state upon registration) to enjoy $2 off.
Goodie bag includes
Customized TEE Box Lanyard, Faceshop Face Mask to be given to all vendors
*More info to be updated.
 

I will in fact, be having my own lil booth there selling my pre-loved items!
Really need to clear my wardrobe and other items,
and isn't it cool if we can buy each other items and walk home with new stuff?! :p

PROMO: You can enjoy $3 off when quoting "Beatricetan"
VISIT FOR MORE INFORMATION!

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And recently, I am once again hooked on Togas,
i always think toga is a minimalist outfit- a kind that shows but not too much,
and what's great about this piece that Pearlavish gave me is the one shoulder tee.
I kinda like the bandage & drappy part as well.

Other than casual dresses, formal dresses which we will need in our wardrobe.
Black is the classic colour to go

 

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TAIWAN DAY 2 – XIMENDING, WU FEN PU (PART 1)

The three of us have a habit of taking pictures before leaving the hotel each and every day in our Taiwan Trip.
Playing dressing up is one of the highlights of an overseas trip too, don't you agree? :p

  

Not just that, but exiting the hotel is another hot spot for photos.
I like the way the plants are hanging outside and the alley feel,
it would have been much better if the constructions at the back were done and removed.
 
  

Just like the first day, we have to walk to the Ximen Station, which we will pass by all these places…

 

just by looking at this picture, i know we are nearing the bubble tea shop that I like,
Ching Shin Fu Chuan Tea Station, 清心福全 !

Their normal milk tea is awesome, but if you are a huge fan of milk teas again,
you can try hazelnut or caramel milktea, thumbs up for these two drinks!
 

I can totally imagine how much calories am i gaining each day,
We wanted to just have a lunch, and remember the other bubble tea chain (50嵐 which is KOI in Sg?),
we spotted that shop finally in the ximending maze of shops after trying to locate it since we touched down in Taiwan.
Being the greedy girls, we sure have to get a cup each!

Considering the cup we just had while walking over,
and a second cup within the next half hour.
Gosh, carbs carbs carbs,
I officially concluded that bubble tea is definitely poots and my ultimate all-time-favourite drink.

 

Look at how excited we were to locate it!

Look at the 34324934923 amount of pearls = carbs!

 

Our lunch was planned to visit and try the famous Ah Zong Mian Xian,
I bet everyone of you heard of this before,
this mian xian chain is extremely famous in Taiwan and has countless of shops around.

 
Small bowl for 45 NT = SGD $1.90 only!!!!
Big bowl for 60 NT = SGD $2.60

oh boy, where can we find ultra delicious mian xian at this price around?!

 

This is the small bowl and its enough for one person generally.
The special part of this mian xian is that they don't use oyster, but cooked with pig intestines (I LOVE IT!!!).

You get to immerse in their culture, :p

Our next plan of the day was to visit WuFenPu 五分埔,
the well-knowned place for wholesale clothes or rather,
clothes at utmost affordable prices.

A tip that many of my friends who came back from Taiwan told me that,
I should visit wu fen pu for the first few days of my trip,
and shop there instead before shopping at the rest of the other areas.
Due to the fact that prices there for clothes are more reasonable,
and other areas sell the same stuff too.

From the research that we have done, we actually took a train to Yong Chun Station to go there.
But apparently, that is a wrong stop to alight!
The correct stop would be Hou shan pi station. (Thanks caleen!)

I guess many people alighted at the wrong stop previously,
so there actually have a useful slip of paper to tell us how to go to Wufenpu from Yong Chun.

Can take either bus 232, 281 or 284.

 
Did i tell you i prefer taking bus than any other mode of public transport?

And the bus ride there is real affordable, its standardized 15NT = SGD $0.65 for all trips (from what i know),
and the bus ride is really comfortable and properly air-conditioned.
The difference is that we have to pay for the bus ride only when we alight.

Finally we arrived!

I didn't manage to snap a lot of pictures here because we were busy shopping away.
Teehee, spent quite a bit here, but clothes are average about $8-15!
Of course, there will be pricier items which are of better quality.

We spent an hour plus in this shop.

Red couch for shawn to rest and being the Mr Nice, he waited for us to shop :p

 
Leaving the shop with satisfaction!

Will be back for Rao He Night Market and more!
Stay tuned for the next.

Apologies for the long interval to my next part of Taiwan Day One, folks!

Been busy with settling school matters as I am trying to make this my last semester in school,
and am doing 6 modules at one go which i foresee to have 4/5 of my time spent in school.
Finally done with all the appeals to get my wanted modules!

Also, BC bash is tomorrow afternoon @ Zirca!
Hope you have already gotten your tickets if you are planning to go,
it would be an afternoon full of great stuff and excitement. :p

I am gonna continue the next part of my Taiwan Trip,
and I promise I will try my best to speed up with the posting while the memories are still fresh in my mind.

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[continued...]

some mentioned about the other bus called the Free go bus from Taoyuan to Ximending area.
I did check on that before but the thing is they drop at different places in regards to the different timings.
So depends on your flight, you might want to google on Free go or Kuo Kuang transport to your hotel.

As continued from my previous post,
For that very day, we checked into the hotel and waited for Shawnie to arrive.
Due to other reasons, Shawnie sat another airline instead,
and he will arrive at Taiwan a couple of hours later only.

By the time Shawnie arrived, it was already 7pm, (yes late but not too late for night markets!),
so we decided to go ahead with our plan of visiting Shilin Night Market on our very first day.

Making our way to Ximending Station (named Ximen station)….

From our hotel to the station, we will always pass by this bubble tea shop, 清心福全.

And guess what?!

Taiwan has two famous chain of bubble tea shops and this is one of them. The two chains are:
1) Wu Shi Lan, 50嵐 (which is KOI in Singapore)
2) Ching Shin Fu Chuan Tea Station, 清心福全
(I prefer the bubble tea here as the tea taste is stronger, heard they use better quality tea leaves)

The night streets of Ximending. Look at Party world there, definitely doing great.

Spotted sexay lady while queuing up to enter the train. Wooo.

Again, some mentioned that they have so called EZ link cards during the train rides,
and I guess that would be a great choice to get for transport too.
We didn't because we figured out that we will not spent that much money for trains,
so bought single trip tickets instead.
 

To go to Shilin Night Market,
we have to go to "Taipei Main Station" to change to the Red Line.
Don't be mistaken, the stop that we should alight is not Shilin, but we should alight at "Jiantan" (劍潭) Station.

Just as we came out from the station, we were greeted by a stretch of brightly lighted area which apparently is not the night market,
also, heard that the food there ain't that great, but because of its prominent location, a lot of tourists go there first before walkng over to Shilin.

Taiwanese are generally very hospitable,
and we were amazed by their helpfulness as well.
So you can just ask any passer-by and they would be more than willing to give you directions!

Shilin Night Market is diagonally across the road and I love that place!

Thats Shilin! Surrounding the buildings there. We were greeted by Smelly Tofu Stall upon crossing the road. (love it!!)

Normally the stalls that sell smelly tofu, sell pig blood soup too. Yummy yummy, must try!
 

The coolest thing on our trip is that, 
we made new taiwanese friends on our first day, right at Shilin Night Market!

We were enjoying smelly tofu, and due to the crowd, we extended our table for these two friends to sit,
and during our meal there, they were extremely nice to tell us all about Taipei,
and even offered to bring us out one of the following days to the further part of Taiwan, outside Taipei.
(call us crazy or what, but we actually went out with them, watch for the post!)

Our two new friends (the extreme left)

We went exploring and reached this area whereby all the food are here..

We had this! Frog eggs drink. hahaha
 

They are just actually pearls.

See the big pot of green stuff floating in brown liquid? that's AI YU, a kind of jelly which we love.
You have to try it!
 


Food was good, and the Fried Chicken, Ji Pa, was good,
but I thought the other places (for the other days) we went have equally great Ji Pa.
The special thing for this Ji Pa is that it is honey marinated, so it tasted real sweet and juicy.

For shopping, I would say you can get clothes and accessories at Shi Lin Night Market.
Prices generally are quite alright and you can bargain!
Though clothes the best place to get is Wu Fen Pu (huge market with almost all shops selling clothes).

Shoes are priced average at NT 390 = SGD 17 (before bargain) per pair in Taipei,
so if you spot higher priced shoes,
perhaps you might want to check out other places (eg. Taipei Main Station underground mall) before buying.

But we bought quite a couple of shoes at Shi Lin Night Market after bargaining.
About SGD $12 per pair.

And a bubble tea once again to end the day.

Shilin Night market closes at around 12 midnight.

The train operates till about 12midnight, so we left the market at 11.45 in due to catch the train back.

Bought their cup noodles to enjoy supper, have you heard of their super yummy and huge bowl of cup noodles?

 

Our couple of loots for the day! Teehee

the hat and the geeky specs…

Time to hit the sacks for Day One and be back for Day Two soon!

Met up with poots on the weekend before Taiwan Trip to plan our itinerary,
love rompers, especially this Navy Satin one from Dadigirl,
because they are so convenient to dress,
and comfortable to just laze around at poot's place! :p

The Navy Satin Romper.

And a cool blue stripe dress with the courtesy of Dadigirl too,
without many accessories, the dress just stands out with the satin stripe design.
Check out for more colours with them if you like it!

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Poots & I at Taoyuan Airport.
Our favourite picture of the day.

As promised, I am back to blog about my 7 days Taiwan trip and this entry would cover half of our first day.
Images are intensive because we snapped almost every single destination we went,
and well, we are girls anyway. :p

Its 3.30am now, but i am totally in the mood to blog,
hopefully the mood lasts long enough for me to complete this extensive post energetically.

4th August 2010 (Wednesday)
Our day started as early as 5.30AM at Changi Airport,
waiting to onboard our jetstar flight (which we booked 5 months ahead with a return ticket price of SGD $365).
To our dismay, we actually had to pay SGD $60 during check in because we selected the lowest fare- Jetstar Saver Light,
and that does not include the check in baggage.

The note is, do make sure you select the proper one that you want when you book jetstar!
They have too many different categories of tickets.

Black and white for the day, woohoo telepathy. :p

Jetstar didn't exactly have the best customer service that day but fortunately, our flight wasn't delay.

After a 5-hour flight, we finally arrived at Taiwan TaoYuan International Airport at 12.04PM.

 
And omg, it was 36 degrees celsius!
Singapore is 27 degrees, and its like almost 10 more there. Zzzz

Excited me waiting to alight the flight..

 
Walking towards the exit.

YOUTH PRIVILEDGE- FREE YOUTH TRAVEL CARD
You will realize that there are many signage hanging in regards to the Free Youth Travel Card.
Do get them at the Tourist Service Counter immediately after you exit,
they will then give you each a round paper card chain to carry around,
together with a booklet that tells you where are the places you can get discount when you present this youth card!

The Youth Card is applicable for people age 15 to 30 years old.
Just present your passport at the counter and you can easily get it after filling up a form.

But frankly speaking,
though the booklet listed quite an amount of shops/businesses with the various promotions,
we didn't even at all used this youth card.
Perhaps we didn't exactly check through which are the shops that we can use,
but would suggest that you can just ask the shops if there is any discount with the youth card if you are lazy to read. :p

Buying the prepaid Sim Card.

MOBILE SERVICE IN TAIWAN
Weeee, I love this.
Easy Peasy, just go to the cellular service counter located near the tourist center,
and buy a prepaid sim card (which cost NT 345 = SGD $14.85) for your mobile line in Taiwan.

Ours was from Taiwan Da Ge Da (台湾大哥大) Tel Co.
It will then have NT 300 value for you to call overseas,
which is about 60 minutes of phone call.

And the best thing about this is you can just top up NT 345 instantly,
(Do consult the service counter people for help,
because you have to follow certain instructions and dial the number/code,
so as to auto deduct the data roaming amount from your prepaid card)
and get 5 days of UNLIMITED DATA ROAMING for you to tweet, google,
surf the net, check emails, skype, facebook, whatever etc in Taiwan.

Alternatively, if you are visiting Taiwan Less than 5 days,
you can just pay the per day usage of data roaming (NT 100 = SGD $4.30).

Walking towards the Express Buses to go to our hotel

FROM TAOYUAN AIRPORT TO XIMENDING  – KUO-KUANG BUS
The thing is we heard that taking a cab all the way to our hotel at Ximending would be expensive,
so we checked the route in advance on how to make our way there.

We realised that we could easily take a bus called the Kuo-Kuang Bus (国光) to "Taipei Main Station" stop,
directly from the Express Buses Station @ TaoYuan Airport.

Ximending is just one stop away from "Taipei Main Station" stop.

Again, easy peasy,
just buy the tickets at the Kuo Kuang Counter at the Express Buses Station located in TaoYuan Airport.
There are other buses to ximending area,
so you can check out others before going there as well.

Buying our bus tickets to "Taipei Main Station" stop.

Seeeee, how hardworking I was snapping away, :p
here's the price list for your info!

We sat the Kuo Kuang bus and paid NT 125 = SGD $5.40.
Definitely worth it! Heard the cab cost app. SGD $60!!
 
 
We were then guided to the bus terminal to wait for the bus.


  

Finally the bus arrived!


Inside the bus, decent and pretty spacious.

Finally we reached "Taipei Main Station" stop!

 
The first few views we got when we arrived outside the station..

We were confused where to sit the MRT to Ximending,
and thought that we should buy tickets at the first counter when we entered via this EAST 3 entrance (picture above).

But nooooo!
Don't get mixed up like we did,
as i mentioned this station has the different kinds of trains like MRT, railway trains etc.
The MRT is called the Metro Taipei – 捷運 (jie yun), and have to walk a bit of distance,
passing all the shops before you reach there.

A few more shots before we enter!

First peek upon entering.

Spotted a mochi shop while walking to the MRT, love mochis!!

Bought one to try, but seriously, we ate better mochi on the next few days,
forget about trying this, oops.
 

Love their magazine shops there!!!
They give free cute tote bags as a bundle with the different magazines. Coolios.
 
Upon reaching the Metro Taipei (the MRT train),
we have to buy "tickets" which come in coin form but act like a Singapore EZ Link.
It costs only NT 20 = SGD $0.85 to reach Ximending which is one stop away.

    

For those who are going Taiwan soon,
I have something real useful (at least for us) that Eileen sent to me months ago,
and hope this will guide you in travelling too!

If I didn't remember wrongly,
this MRT map is all accurate except for the last stop of the blueline (right side),
apparently there is a new stop, so the train ends at the new stop name instead of Kunyang.

Print out if you need to

As you can see, Ximending is at the Ximen Stop,
and the train we were supposed to take from "Taipei Main Station" is the blue line,
towards Yong Ning.

Ah, we were quite amazed that we have to queue to enter the train!!

Inside the train, its clean..

XIMENDING TO OUR HOTEL – HAN SHE HOTEL
Prior to the trip,
I asked around my friends in search for a good and decent hotel to stay in.
After much sourcing, Felicia from Majolica Majorca introduced to me this really comfortable and clean hotel,
and poots, shawn and I like it there very much!

The Hotel is called HAN SHE HOTEL 函舍商务旅店 (HANDSOME HOTEL) in Taipei,
as corny as the name of the hotel sounds,
and the link that I provided might not have many reviews to judge from,
but we were really satisfied with the stay.

 
Upon reaching Ximending, we need to go to EXIT 1 to go to our hotel.

Poots and I couldn't find our way to the hotel and in the end,
we walked a huge round, dragging the luggage for almost an hour before arriving,

Tireddddd!

If you are planning to stay in this hotel too,
please take note that after you exit at EXIT 1,
just cross the road straight ahead when you come out of the station,
(you will see that there is a fashion shop called "NET" under a building),
and just walk STRAIGHT ahead.

Walked until you passed by a cafe/restaurant called "TMK"
(this will take about 5 minutes straight walk),
and turn left into the alley, you will see Han She Hotel.

"TMK" Cafe and its logo

Before you turn left,
the other shop in front of you (beside TMK, and at the next building),
is called the "Olympia", a bakery.

So in other words,
Han She Hotel is located in between "TMK" and "Olympia".

Another landmark to notice is that,
the building on your right, across the road,
will be a Karoke (KTV) building as shown below.

The KTV building

Or also,
the sign you will see under the "Olympia" shop signboard before you turn left,
is this alley address plate below (note: this is not the address for the hotel).

The alley street

This is the view you will get when you turn left,
Yayyyyy, reached the hotel!!

The reception is at the 4th level,
so just take the lift up to there to check in.

Note: There is a CCTV camera once you enter the lobby,
and the staff there are all very observant,
so if you are planning to stay 3 people in a room for two (like what we did),
beware! They were extremely particular about that,
and kept asking us how many people are staying for the night. lol.
 
 
Peeks of our hotel!
 

 
 

 
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I, personally, am quite particular about the toilet, lights and cleanliness,
and in Ximending, there are so many small hotels/motels,
even some hotels which only occupied the last 3 levels of a building.

Han She Hotel occupied a whole building on its own,
and surprisingly, the room we stayed in Han She Hotel was really clean and cosy,
lights were brightly lit and we had a huge plasma teevee.
Toilet was clean, hair dryer, towels, necessities were all provided too. 

If you are interested,
Address: 4/F, No. 68, Cheng Tu Road, Taipei, Taiwan.
Cost/night: SGD $80.70 (you can book via priceline.com) for our room
Phone No: (886) (2) 23718812

Will be back to continue on the next half of Day One very soon!

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CREDITS TO DADIGIRL:
NAVY SATIN ROMPER
STRIPE BLUE DRESS