4:40 pm

For lunch I had a Chinese beef stew with noodles. Jenny said the ingredients were ginger, red bean curd, ketchup, soy sauce and other ingredients. I also had a Chinese radish, mashed then cooked into solid rectangles {kind of like a hash brown}. The one I had had a bluish root called tow-goo.

Sunny, a friend of the Chengs, brought a large Asian pear (the size of a small canteloupe). It had a granny smith apple texture but was sweet like a pear.

I also had a bubble tea (tea is pronounced cha in Chinese). {Here it is! Don't make fun of the hair please.:}



We climbed to the 69th floor of Taipei 101 and saw the city. The city is surrounded by mountains covered in thick lush vegetation. {The city is sandwiched between several mountains, so there are no suburbs really. The city abruptly stops at the feet of the mountains. It's really beautiful because despite it being a modern city, nature still overcomes it as evidence by vines and flowers growing out of gutters. Here's the view of and from the building:}



We went to some high end shopping malls {at the base of Taipei 101} and saw some posters of Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End.

We're now back at the house. Tonight we will go to the night market.