3 Cool Places in Taiwan to Visit with Your Barkada

Ximending Youth Shopping District

The Ximending Youth Shopping District is one of the best places to eat and shop in Taipei. The place is charming, vibrant, and basically screams of popular culture. Music can be heard everywhere and the smell of good food is omnipresent. If you and your friends simply want to chill whilst enjoying fried squid cubes, torched beef, pastel-colored juice, and yummy milk teas; then this is the perfect place to go!

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Fried squid cubes

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Torched beef

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Pastel-colored juice

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Default favorite milk tea <3-

“…but nothing is more disconcerting to you than the ride in the plane itself, the strange sense of being nowhere that engulfs you each time you step into the cabin, the unreality of being propelled through space at five hundred miles an hour, so far off the ground that you begin to lose a sense of your own reality, as if the fact of your own existence were slowly being drained out of you, but such is the price you pay for leaving home, and as long as you continue to travel, the nowhere that lies between the here of home and the there of somewhere else will continue to be one of the places where you live.” | Paul Auster, Winter Journal

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