My best friend moved to Taipei so I spent a week there last year visiting him. The two obvious Asian cities to compare it to are Hong Kong and Shanghai. Its obviously a bit smaller than these cities but the biggest difference was that it just seems a lot more relaxed. The pace is slower, the people more chilled. Its still a big, sprawling city though. There's endless food options but Taiwanese people seem to have one of the unhealthiest diets of any country in the world - everything is deep fried, or packed with sugar, or salt, or oil or heavily processed. Its tastes great but I do not know how the locals survive with a diet like that!