Buying in bulk and spicy HotPot
Down to our last package of toilet paper (which looks sort of like Kleenex) we headed to the best place to buy bulk items- Costco! It's eerily the same down to the font on the item labels. I was surprised to find that Taiwan has embraced Costco, but it really is the cheapest price for bulk items. They also are one of the few places to sell in bulk. Not so crowded on the weekend, it's still kind of a novelty I think. The food selection was a mix of western items and asian tastes. For instance, you can get your cheeses, Campbell soup and EEVOO but they also have 3 kinds of miso and 4 kinds of ramen noodles. The cuts of meat were definitely styled towards asian cooking. In the produce section they had all kinds of interesting greens and mushrooms on steroids. I wish we had these meat and veg options back home at the Costco in Richmond, CA. Down in front you can still get your pizza fix if you need it. They also have mango fruit smoothies.
There's not much room in the apartment but somehow I managed to put everything away.
In the evening we went out for spicy hot pot.
辣巴子川味火鍋
地址：台北市羅斯福路四段136巷6弄10號
電話：（02）23645669、23645650
(English address: Roosevelt road section four alley 136 lane 6 number 10)
there were all kinds of side dishes to accompany the flaming hot spicy soup and meats/shrimp/crab
We were so full afterwards that we walked 3 MRT stops to Chiang Kai Shek Memorial.