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Chinese New Year Shopping at Taipei Dihua Street 迪化街!

Catherine Lee

Definitely the place to be in the few weeks leading up to Chinese New Year ~ the hustle and bustle and noise and rush is not for the faint-hearted, but hey it’s fun! Dihua Street is in one of the oldest parts of Taipei City, near the river and full of old buildings, temples and traditional shops selling tea and Chinese medicine ingredients… Normally quite a quiet area, but for these few weeks you can buy everything you need for the festivities at good prices ~ dried everything, nuts, fruit, meats, seafoods, seeds plus sugar cane juice, sweets, a few clothes…. … Continue reading Chinese New Year Shopping at Taipei Dihua Street 迪化街!

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TAIPEI 101 Global Circle ~ and TABORA is right there!

Catherine Lee

In Taipei 101 is a large black granite circle in the floor, and in white marble are carved the names of a whole host of places, some well-known, others nobody has ever heard of.  This of course is ART. Public Art in fact, known as the ‘Global Circle’ and described on the Taipei 101 website rather eloquently as: In the most luxurious and hottest shopping center, this Global Circle exists in silence. The black granite ring is embedded in the Social Plaza of the shopping square, and white inscriptions of names of cities from celebrated metropolises to unknown towns mingle … Continue reading TAIPEI 101 Global Circle ~ and TABORA is right there!

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Taipei Welcomes 2014!

Catherine Lee

And for the first time ever, I was there ~ and not just watching from a distance, but right in there among the zillions of people who had come to watch the show at Taipei City Hall and Taipei 101 ~ YES! And it was WONDERFUL!  AMAZING! SPECTACULAR! INCREDIBLE!  All worth every minute – and yep there were plenty of minutes to wait until midnight, in fact the show went from before 7:00pm until 1:00am ~  but I had a grand viewing platform, clinging to a large bush growing on a raised flowerbed ha ha! The Taipei City Government and the … Continue reading Taipei Welcomes 2014!