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I am in the middle of a five consecutive weeks of business travel to five locations in three continents. The first is the Colorlessly Stuck in a Time Trap Trip on UA trip report that I am currently working on finalizing in the next couple of days……as you can see from the photo below that I have been busily trying to finish it at Taipei airport yesterday while waiting for my departing CX flight.



The second trip took place this past couple of days to Taipei, Taiwan. A total of less than 36 hours (most of time were sitting in meetings) spent on the ground, but I did sneaked out of meetings for a few hours trying to see this vibrant city and took over 700 pictures and another 300 pictures on the planes and airports (HKG, TPE and PEK). Just took a quick look of these photos between my boring business meetings and got really excited with the images, and I am eager to start showing these photos in this forum. In the next a few days, I will begin posting photos in this thread. Most of the photos will be in color and some will shown in BW based on lighting conditions . Taipei is so colourful especially at the night markets. In addition to photos of TPE, there will be photos of the newly renovated SQ lounge at HKG and Taipei Shangri-la hotel. This report could potentially have more photos than the 230+ photo trip report I recently completed - Plaza Mayor/Heldenplatz, MAD/VIE, LH & 1st time on Austrian/Adria Airways!

This trip was done flying in cattle class on CA/CX (Air China/ Cathay Pacific), and will be my first trip report in Y. Just to give you a flavour what I went through in cattle class, here is a photo of a 12-day old egg that I chose to take a bite to show you guys what it looked like inside of a 12-day old egg.



Stay tuned!

My other photo trip reports can be accessed by click on the titles below:



Colorlessly Stuck in a Time Trap Trip - Another UA F/C Transpac Trip!
Plaza Mayor/Heldenplatz, MAD/VIE, LH & 1st time on Austrian/Adria Airways!
Time Square Loses its Colors...Not Just Another UA Trip Report!
Godiva, Neuhaus, LH/KA C, CX Wing & SAS Lounge
iPhone Photo Report:PEK-FRA-ZRH-MUC-PEK on LH/LX Business Class
Round-the World on UA (new F Suite), SQ A380/77W (Business), LH 744 (Business) and BD A320 (Business)

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Looking forward to the rest. You are brave to take a bite out of that egg. I have eaten boiled chicken feet and offal casseroles at dim sum places but this type of egg, whether it is 12-day OR 1,000 years old - no thanks.

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Next batch of uploaded photos will be on CA flight PEK-HKG

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Sorry! Between finishing the other Photo Trip Report and flying to Europe, I am behind schedule in posting. Hope things will be back on track now that I am in Europe.

Inside and Ouside of Cabin
























City of Macau

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The breakfast menu was 1) Chinese (see photo below), and 2) Western: scrambled egg with hash brown and sausage.

I would have picked the scramble egg, but I thought it would be more interesting to take photo of the Chinese meal for this thread.


As you can see from the package of the egg, the manufacturing date is May 13, 2010. My flight was on May 25.


The packaged pickled vegetable is even order. It was produced on March 27, 2010.....almost 2 months old.








Bread with red bean paste fillings

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View from my hotel room


Breakfast

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I arrived in the early evening, and my companion and I scouted the neighborhood for local eateries.

We found a place serving Beef Noodles and northern China Dim Sum with Taiwanese modification.

Chopsticks wrapper shown the eatery 's name and address:



Beef with Noodles



Steamed Breaded Chopped Beef



Spring Onion Pancakes



Pan Fried Dumping filled with Chives and Minced Pork



Dinner was delicious and cost less than US$15 for two.

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I was in a banguet dinner at a restaurant that was supposed to be affiliated with the National Museum, and couple of dishes were inspired by the artworks that are on display in the museum. Photos of the menu and dishes are posted below:

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Next 2 Posts to come:

Shilin Night Market Part 2(Color) of 3
Shilin Night Market Part 3(Food) of 3

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All I can say is that my stomach has not felt good since taking that bite. I am not sure if it is all the different food and water I have been taking in the last two weeks traveling around the world or it was the 12-day egg effect.

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Over 100+ photos posted so far, and I have only received one comment in this thread. I still have another bundle of photos to post....

Let me know what you think, if this is not the type of trip report you like to see. I will try to change the subject matter, location or even cabin of services for future trip reports.

Is it because the location is not a popular FTer destination, airlines/cabin of services, or simply that FTers are more interested in the "flying" and "hotel" aspects of trip reports while the "travel in destinations" types of photos are not the focus?

I am a loytal FTer but relatively new in the Trip Reports Forum. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

I just took over 1000+ photos for my trip to Dublin, Ireland this week and has been thinking of doing another photo trip reports similar to this one and other recent ones I did in Madrid and Vienna. Your valuable comments and suggestions will help to prepare my next Photo Trip Report!

Thanks

BlissWorld

You shouldn't alter your travel plans or your creativity for other people.

TPE is not a star alliance hub so you won't find too many FTers who have purchased 75 million US Airways miles (which is, what, 97% of the population?) spending their 0.7 cent per mile/ $999 first class ticket with grandma/pa, their nanny and pets all flying first class adding a free stopover in TPE so they can try a *A carrier in first. Let's face it, there are also other people on Flyertalk who take trips to only fly some airline's first class, eat food at airport lounges, stay at hotels so they can post on Flyertalk while in the club lounges. It's quite sad.

But then there are other FTers who actually fly to a destination because they are seriously interested in the culture, people, and food. Traveling in style is just the icing on the cake. So, make no compromise and keep up the good work!

Angeleno228

Just came across this report, love the photos! Hope I'll be able to visit TPE soon!