Shopping in Taipei city

Printing, eating and shopping. Topics of this day.

In the morning we've finished our promotional materials and went to print them. Horace, Kathryn and Eva have helped us to figure out with the stuff, how to make it. We've decided to print two A2 for map and legend and made a small book from our notes. Well, I'm curious about the result, because I haven't understood a single word from their communication :-)

After our three day working marathon we've decided with Geena to celebrate it with journey to Taipei with one goal - shopping! First we've had a Ji Guang Delicious Fried Chicken to get some power for our shopping day. We've seen a lot of jewellery, clothes, cosmetics (especially nail polishes), food and drink (bubble milk tea) and so much more..

After seeing the shopping street in Shimen, Geena has showed me Red House. It's quite old building with wall made of bricks. Inside there were some historical exhibition, so we could see only the first floor. 

Red House

Historical Exhibition - all in Chinese :-)

Poster place :-)

 Later we've used secret gate to other part of the Red house - Creative Boutiques. In this place there are some shops, which make their own products (usually handmade). It was so great! I really like this style - wooden products, hand-made clothes, books, cards, creatures from computer components or Lego, paper holders for pens, business cards or mobile phone and so much more.. For the paper things you can see their website. Red house is a place especially for me. I wish to have this Red house in my city, thank you Geena for showing me :-)

Terezka riding cat! On the back is the plan of Creative Boutiques

Some of the names of Boutiques

Making own postcards

Pencil cases from zippers

Creatures from computer components

Wooden heart with message

Interesting pottery

 Our next stop was Wufenpu shopping mall. I've expected some big house with many floors and shops, but it has turned out that it's a market with a lot of clothes stands. It was like a shopping paradise. It was cheap – a lot of t-shirts for 100. Dress, shorts, skirts, sweater and so much more for 300-1000NTD. And if you’re good, you can discuss with them about the price. They don’t pay a taxes, because they don’t have a shops, but stands. I’m a little bit higher than Taiwanese people, so there were two quite big disadvantages for me – a lot of things were small and you’re not allowed to try them. But I could still find something, so I went home with many bags :-D

On our way home we’ve stopped by Taipei City Hall for dinner (fried rice :-) and look into the Eslite (very big and famous book store). Our day has finished with run to catch our train. We’ve made it!

Yeej, what a shopping day! :-)