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how's it going everyone so me and the new egg TV crew just landed in Taiwan in Taipei just about half an hour ago and we just got to our hotel we're at the AMPA Hotel in Taipei and pollen eyes room is room 806 but why don't we take a look inside maybe see maybe we'll see some differences here so first off when I first came in here is pitch black and as I go looking for the light switch around here could not find a light switch for the life of me finally realized you actually got to insert your key card for power just once you take it out and you have power for the rest of the time until you leave your room again it'll automatically shut off not sure what the battery thing is going on here it's a sticker on the wall or it's just painted on there so I guess this room is always on low battery I was expecting Paul to be here but he's not I saw his baggage is here so I know he's checked in already there's me as you can see I look like a total train wreck cuz I was just on a 13 hour flight 14 hours actually but a closer look at the sink here got some where's that ginger soap okay's camera phone do what I tell you to anyway that's ginger soap and then lastly we have the bedroom area the sleeping area which is kind of concerning to me well first off here's my luggage but it's kind of concerning to me because there's only one small bed for Paul and I and there's really not much room at all on the floor for anywhere to sleep on so I don't know I really don't know what's going to transpire by the end of tonight but I just hope it doesn't end with me wrapped in Paul's arms his manly hairy arms alright so now I'm walking down some Street in Taipei right next to my hotel haven't ventured too far I'm probably a quarter mile a half a mile away just kind of been walking in one direction there's a lot of little shops it's still pretty early right now so I don't think much is open right now but you can see the go pets have already started making their way around the city I definitely got to watch out for those I've almost been nicked a couple times in the last five minutes so maybe I should be a little bit more careful where I'm walking this is a one-way street though so that should help essentially though I did think this was pretty interesting this is a movie theater it's actually an IMAX and I thought was pretty cool because the consistent concession stand and the cash register for the tickets is all in the same place if you can see it's kind of like semi outdoors you're just walking around outside and there's not even any like door I don't think there's a door that closes at night I think it's just completely open just completely open so you could walk right up buy your ticket and all your popcorn while you're outside and then you just go straight back into the theater into one of the big rooms back there just a little slight difference in culture and design that I thought was worth noting there's another go pad but essentially I'm going to go try to find some breakfast and yeah I guess hopefully I don't get hit by a go pad alright so I just finished having my very first breakfast in Taiwan I ordered it all by myself I'm very proud of myself luckily the guy that worked there spoke some English she was actually very helpful and I was able to translate everything that I pointed out on the menu basically I got this kind of egg with tortilla which is something that my Taiwanese groom ate back home had got me the day before so I kind of knew that that was gonna be good and then I would like that kind of came in like a sweet almost a teriyaki slash soy sauce sauce I guess you could say I was really delicious and then the burger thing kind of looks like egg McMuffin you know that was made in Candyland for example I was actually pretty good I didn't like it as much as the egg I wasn't a huge fan of the Bund it was a little too sweet for my liking overall not a terrible experience it was pretty packed at the place that I went to so there was nowhere to sit down so I just took it to go which I indicated to the guy by making a stick figure out of my two fingers and and making it run across that was my sign language for to go he seemed to understand it cuz he put everything in a little plastic bag for me but after that I took my breakfast elsewhere and sat down at a bench nearby there was a little table nearby but I didn't realize that was actually a table for another breakfast place so it kind of I kind of look like a dick ordering food somewhere else and then eating it at somebody else's restaurant I felt really bad I was going to get up as like oh I'm sorry and then the lady was like no no it's okay it's okay she insisted that I stay there and continue feeling like an asshole so I did I did eat pretty quickly after that though wrapped it up and now on the road again so see the time is it's about nine thirty five nine forty five is supposed to meet up with the others at 10:00 or 10:15 so I got a little bit more time to kill it's too early for a beer beer sounds really good Wow look at that it's like a biker gang every five seconds and then a bus in your face just so congested down this little street very bit of wide streets probably three lanes but people are just going by on mopeds and stuff like it's no big thing even like old ladies like this lady she's like about to die and she's like oh excuse me giant bus that's about to kill me pardon me alright guys so now I am actually in Taipei 101 it is the tallest building in all of Taiwan and I probably could probably see it somewhere else from the outside in this video if you haven't already but it's just a massive building both in girth as well as in height obviously you call it Taipei 101 because it has a hundred and one floors right now I'm only on the 36th floor but it feels like I'm a lot higher if you're wondering why I'm in here than it being awesome because I'm also interviewing pika by I just got done interviewing gigabyte and the lovely folks over there but waiting for the rest of the new egg TV crew to meet up with us I'm just just Rachel and I here for now but my trip has been going awesomely so far in case you were wondering but yeah more on this later some at 7-eleven right now and for those of you who don't already know there's pretty much a 7-eleven on every block in Taipei that's not even exaggeration I've actually seen three 711s simultaneously from where I was standing but here's the beer section of it taking a liking to Taiwanese beer I've always been a fan of Japanese beer and Asian beer in general I guess but one that I've had never had before that I've actually started to really like is the beer it's actually seven 7-elevens brand of beer and I actually really like it I think it's really good and it's relatively inexpensive just like pretty much everything here anyway but essentially Taiwan's cool because you can just buy beer and drink it on the street there's no issue with it whatsoever you can even bring it in to other stores drink just like a total drunkard pretty cool stuff I'm gonna I'm gonna buy my beer go down how's it going guys here now at the sheet land food market or the night markets a night markets a great popular here in Taiwan basically it's kind of like an outdoor swap meet if you will a lot of little shops vendors everywhere everything from clothing to food lots of lots and lots of food that I guess the idea is you get a little bit of everything so you get some variety down to eat everything in one place so that's what we're doing now we're about to get our first first snack over the night which looks to be like some sausage some sausages and wings and we also got some some body parts in there as well so are you talking to your camera no god I'm talking to you now I got to be the star of the show I hey your soul patch is crooked another day marking right now where there's a lot of food vendors a lot of different things here I've kind of ventured away from the typical tourist attractions I'm completely in unfamiliar territory this is where all the locals are pretty much this is I guess how they shop you know I actually saw a butcher with just like slabs of meat hanging from hooks this is an authentic Taiwan style right here it's uh I'm completely this is the most out of my comfort zone I felt there this entire trip I don't think there's a single person here that knows much English but it's it's it's an experience nonetheless so hopefully I make it out of this live a beautiful temple that I just stumbled across there's red lanterns everywhere some amazing architecture you just tell the things like a million years old alright guys so we just checked into our second hotel basically we're on the later half of our trip there's Paul being Paul this is his fourth hotel and this is my fifth hotel that's right he's been he's even been homeless a couple times throughout the trip but we finally landed at our last hotel that we'll be staying at which is pretty interesting layout all of you will draw the curtain for us please to to show us the view of the beds it's the shower and bathtub so and also the toilets so uh Paul needs to be taking a crap and I just want to be able to make eye contact with them for whatever reason they totally do so even even more interesting than that is the toilet itself I should say because look it's a bidet I've actually never used one of these but you know I think I feel something coming up you're coming out so why don't I why don't I test this out right now okay can you please draw the two other curtain again Paul no but I I need to go really bad thank you thank you Paul this will be the best unboxing ever hey there's a little slip I can still see you that's creepy hold it alright guys so I'm just about wrapped up here doing the thing I'm going to do this for the first time ever I think I click the bidet button first I definitely don't want to hit this strong button or the high button spray spray bidet let's just do it ready Oh No it's doing something there's a big red stuff but oh my god you didn't push the warm button there's no warm it's just did you read the instructions it's on the hanger thing it's behind the toilet paper geez come on toilet needs instructions this is stupid alright so Paul and I were just walking around near our third hotel that we're staying at and we kind of stumbled across what looks to be like a farmers market it is Sunday so maybe it only comes out on Sundays but we're not really sure but I look pretty interesting they're selling bunch of food fruits and vegetables and stuff like that so they have free samples so this is basically an Asian Costco that we're at so out of all the little vendors here Paul actually came across something he liked which was some grapes these grapes actually do look really fresh they look really for refreshing he's taking a free sample right now oh yeah he likes it he's going for the grapes they do look pretty amazing though they're they're really just like have a beautiful color so they look really refreshing in this ridiculous heat right now you can see them all right there so I think he's just gonna get like one bundle or one bunch of grapes there it is I think it's a how much 150 all right he's gonna he's gonna get a bunch for 150 NT which is roughly well pretty much five dollars five US dollars definitely more than you pay and like a convenience store or something like that around here but I think it is a specialty item these are probably a lot a lot better lot fresher than something you'd find otherwise all right so on our little escapade Paul Paul and I also stumbled upon this little gem it's a bank wa electronic Plaza so all the shops here are just basically selling electronics there's like gigabyte and asrock ads everywhere so we're pretty excited this is like Taiwanese fries pretty much on steroids then we go in here and see what kind of goodies we can find all right so we're a little camera store there's a 5d mark ii right here we're gonna see how much it costs us you know there's how much is it fourteen hundred bucks for a 5d Mark - okay you paid - no I Paul paid a lot more than that so wow you don't really have that much NT I'm at this point but that is quite a steal it check out this pretty cool SATA cable oh wait no that's just a USB charging cable alright so apparently LEDs are super cheap here because while they're manufactured here a lot cheaper than in the u.s. just take a look at this thing for example it comes with a full-color remote control so however you're feeling whatever mood you're in forth but just look at the the massive amount of LED strip connection you have here this is probably like a thirty foot maybe 20 foot just roll of LED strip so you write your name in cursive you can make a stick figure with it put it on your wall look at that that is ridiculous and I think it's how would you say it was well like 30 bucks 30 five bucks here so Paul is now he's found a few LED strips that he thinks he likes but he has no idea what color they are cuz so well that one's blue so there's actually a little testing station that you can bring your parts to and they'll try it out for you make sure that you want to buy it so the first one was blue Paul seems to like that one I'm gonna get into certain of color these are not 4 bucks each 4 bucks each we got an AMD build yes let's get green video and I just got to get a Titan oh I have alright get most of them back single tear so in this little shop just one of many that are in this area managed to find some gentle typhoons in the store they're usually sold out on every website that I've ever looked at you really got to like put some Auto notification on to even find them online but here they are just go ahead and buy as many as you want as many as they have in stock so if there's one thing that I've repeated over and over about my trip here to Taiwan is that Taiwan is very thoughtful culture they think of everything so right here I'm in a public bathroom underground next to the MRT subway and in case in case you ever need it there is an emergency button that you can actually press it anytime if for whatever reason you I don't know run out of toilet paper or god forbid following the toilet I guess I'm doing the underground mall at Taipei main station interviewing fractals design this is Josh I'm good as well thank you sir yeah I really love your hair I love the color of it I love your facial hair as well oh that's actually face paint okay well I really got I love you guys before you guys are doing the fractal design your Scandinavian minimalistic style with all your cases keep up the good work and hopefully I'll see you soon all right it's hard to see but in Taiwan the crosswalks actually have an animation going so there's a little dude that will run and as the timer runs out and you get closer to going he'll actually start running faster as you can see I guess oh we're eating some seafood some amazing clams we got some amazing vegetables and stuff here in Taipei and we just stumbled across this adorable dog it just looks like a teddy bear it doesn't even look real recording yes oh my God look at cute dude this dog needs to be in commercials you just want to punch it across a football field so cute put it in a meat grinder we just got off the brown line we're kind of near the Taipei Zoo but we're not here for the animals we're actually here to check out Mao Kong mountain it's basically a pretty famous well-known mountain around here apparently if you go up pretty far up you can actually get to a place that is very famous for their tea supposed to have really good tea so we're gonna go up in the mountain drink some tea and hopefully be able to check out a kick-ass view from the top all right we are at Din Tai Fung right now it's a very famous world-renowned dumpling house really good restaurant this is the original Din Tai Fung that we're at right now we actually went earlier in this trip but it was at the one at Taipei 101 which is not the original we finally made it here on our second to last day it's kind of cool you can see a window here where they're making the dumplings see those dumplings bring me the dumplings yeah they're very busy they're all very very sanitary as well face masks and Pat's paradise I'm not messing around here oh there's my seat oh please dumplings what are you doing with those dumplings you give those to me nope I guess I'll be eating them pretty soon all right guys this is my last few hours here in Taipei beautiful country of Taiwan it's uh it's been a great adventure great rad I'm gonna miss all the 7-elevens I'm gonna miss being able to drink in public I'm gonna miss the wall I won't miss the Taiwanese massage cuz that was painful as hell I'm gonna miss the people as well the people here have been so nice and just extremely generous shown me that you know you know I don't have to be afraid in a foreign country because there is still good in humanity some in some places of the world so it's been a great time I'm gonna finish it off by having the drink at this lounge slash bar I think it's called steam or yeah Stream actually but yeah in a few hours I will be hopping on the plane and headed home so hope you guys have enjoyed this little travel blog that I've concocted yeah thanks for joining me along for the ride I'll see you guys in the next video