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Yongkang Street: Taipei’s Best Food Street
The original Din Tai Fung, Sichuan-style beef noodles, scallion pancakes and mango ice — plus the quiet lanes, Japanese houses, tea houses…
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Zhongzheng District: Taipei’s Civic Heart
The old walled city, the colonial capital and the stage of Taiwan's democracy: how to tour the Presidential Office, 228 Peace Park and its museums, Liberty Square, the North Gate, Huashan 1914, the markets and where to eat.
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Beitou District Guide: Hot Springs, Library & Thermal Valley
Taipei's volcanic spa valley, half an hour from the centre: the 1913 bathhouse museum, the wooden green library, Thermal Valley, the old…
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Shilin District: Beyond the Night Market
Taipei's biggest district is far more than its night market: the Palace Museum and the Indigenous museum across the road, Chiang Kai-shek's…
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Gongguan: Taipei’s Student Quarter
The neighbourhood around National Taiwan University: the palm-lined campus, Treasure Hill's hillside artist village, the old waterworks and its summer water park,…