Lunch with Friends at Taipei 101, Taipei

We started travelling again. After not being able to travel for four years, we felt confident enough to be on the road and visit all the places we want to see. After much planning and shopping around for our plane tickets to Asia since April, 2023, we finally bought our more affordable tickets and landed in Taipei, thanks to Rev. Victoria for her excellent suggestions of using the Taiwan route. We were grateful for her generosity and opening her home and inviting us to stay at her Taipei apartment. Having a local friend while visiting a new place made travelling so much more fun. Rev. Victoria not only hosted us, she arranged for a taxi to pick us up at the Taipei airport and welcome us upon our arrival after 10p.m. Travelling is even more fun when we can meet up with some friends at the place where we are visiting. Rev. Victoria even arranged a couple of gatherings for us with church friends during our stay in Taipei.

Our first reunion luncheon was at a restaruant at Taipei 101, a modern, beautiful building and meeting hub for Taiwanese. We met up with Anita, Johnson at Taipei 101, one of the many famous places to visit in Tapei.

Taipei 101 is a spectacular building with 101 floors. It is spacious, modern, sleek and clean offering many floors of office space, with a few floors of retail stores selling a host of brand names and fancy merchandizes

We had lunch at one of the well known restaurants enjoying the cuisine and specialties of Taiwan. As for foodies, the main floor of Taipei 101 offers food from around the world as well as every cuisine you could imagine from across the different regions of China.

I didn't think we could try all the different food even if we were eating there everyday three meals a day during our visit there. There were so much; it was incredible.

It was delightful meeting up with Anita and Johnson again and we had a great time catching up while enjoying the delicious food.

Our friends had planned to take us around to see some famous sites in Taipei. However, the weather didn't cooperate after lunch and it was raining the whole afternoon.

Consequently, we changed our plan and stayed indoor to enjoy what Taipei 101 has to offer to its visitors. We tried many different food that day including various appetizers, different kinds of dim sums, dumplings, 5 different desserts, a myraid of different dishes. We had a walking tour of this most famous Taipei building.

Taipei is more westernized than I thought. Besides many traditional Chinese restaurants, we have also discovered some nice cafes for coffee, lattes and aternoon teas. Later we enjoyed drinks, desserts and lattes at a cafe. Best of all excellent conversation and fellowship with our friends! R.T. Taipei .