Last evening, I left off after a streetside dinner which had left me wanting more. So, I got more. I went out to Din Tai Fung, which is a world-famous (among snobby food critics, anyway) place specializing in xiaolongbao (Shanghainese-style soup dumplings). It was what it was cracked up to be.<\/p>\n
Also, the lantern festival (which actually starts today) was, for some reason, even more fun at night. My pictures probably didn’t come out well though.<\/p>\n
Today, I’m going to the National Palace Museum, and perhaps one of CKS’s old official residences near the corresponding MRT<\/abbr> station, before probably paying a return visit to the food court in the basement of Taipei 101. Tomorrow, I’ll be trying to get a bit outside of the city, either toward the hot springs at Beitou or the mouth of the river on the Strait at Danshui.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last evening, I left off after a streetside dinner which had left me wanting more. So, I got more. I went out to Din Tai Fung, which is a world-famous (among snobby food critics, anyway) place specializing in xiaolongbao (Shanghainese-style soup dumplings). It was what it was cracked up to be. Also, the lantern festival … Continue reading Taipei, Part 1.5<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[65,66],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong","tag-taipei","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}