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  • - Hey guys!

  • So, my aunt actually has a seven-story house.

  • Well, she has two basements and five floors, and so I'm

  • on the roof right now,

  • and you can get a pretty good view of Taipei.

  • So this is the view.

  • It's pretty cool.

  • (man chuckling)

  • My parents don't know that I'm coming.

  • You can actually see, way back there, the Taipei 101,

  • which is the tallest building in Taiwan.

  • So that's pretty cool.

  • It's kinda foggy today,

  • but hopefully I'll end up actually seeing it up close,

  • and then I'll take some video from there.

  • So anyway, I just wanted to show you guys a view.

  • (birds chirping)

  • Hey guys!

  • Right now I'm in Ximending, which is like a, I don't know,

  • it's like a shopping area for younger people, I guess.

  • I'm kind of still younger.

  • There's a bunch of shopping over here,

  • and we just had lunch at a Japanese place.

  • It's just a nice place to walk around

  • and sort of absorb some

  • of the Taiwanese shopping experience.

  • So yeah, kinda busy.

  • It was actually in The Amazing Race once,

  • which is kinda cool, so yeah.

  • Anyway, not a lot of point to this, but I wanted

  • to show you guys a little bit of the street.

  • Hi guys!

  • - Hi. - So we're at some name

  • of noodle house that I can't pronounce.

  • - A-zhong mian xian.

  • - Yeah, what she said.

  • - A-zhong mian xian.

  • - Yeah, it's actually like real Taiwanese noodle stuff.

  • It looks kinda gross, and there might be some intestine

  • in here somewhere.

  • But yeah, it's actually like authentically-tasting stuff,

  • it's not just McDonald's or Panda Express or whatever that,

  • all the other stuff that we've had on this trip.

  • So yeah, it's not bad.

  • (background noise)

  • And there's a lotta people eating here.

  • (background noise)

  • Yep, so we're still in the middle of this Ximending

  • shopping district thing for young people.

  • Hey guys! - Hi!

  • - So we're at the night market now.

  • It's another one of those Taiwanese... Ah!

  • Taiwanese culture things, and we just bought...

  • we just bought some dumplings, I guess.

  • And so my brother just fed me one, and it's pretty good.

  • But yeah, at night market, basically you just go

  • around; there's a lotta little shops and a lot of little, like--

  • - Street food.

  • - Yeah, street food, that's, that's, that's the word I was looking for.

  • So you just go around, you buy little things

  • from the street food things, like this one right here.

  • So you go around, you eat a bunch of stuff

  • and you go shopping.

  • It's a whole little marketplace here.

  • - Get some diarrhea.

  • - Um, yeah, so yeah, it's pretty fun.

  • Definitely part of the Taiwanese experience.

  • So yeah, good times.

  • Yeah, wow, that was actually a pretty good dumpling.

  • So, yep, gonna keep walking around, and yeah.

  • I don't know; pretty much,

  • our day has been shopping and eating,

  • so I guess there'll be more of that, uhm, to come.

  • (foreign language)

  • - So, what's going on here?

  • - Yeah, fried Oreo, fried banana, fried Snickers.

  • (laughter)

  • (rap music)

  • - So, as the true tourist that I am, the thing

  • that I picked outta the night market is deep-fried Snickers,

  • which is pretty much as American as you can get.

  • But anyway, it looked good, so I bought it.

  • So wrong, but so good.

- Hey guys!

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