requirements

• ✔ travel authorization certificate no less than 30 days prior (http://websushidesign.com/blog/2014/10/16/how-to-apply-for-a-taiwan-tourist-visa-for-filipinos/)
• ✔ us visa
• ✔ roaming (http://www.globe.com.ph/international/roaming-prepaid?jsid=139C100790574CAB0155625CA7C003DA.41419756419201) - at least 24 hours before departure

food

• shilin night market
• street food: chicken chops, smelly tofu, matcha ice cream, mr. wish milk tea, tea egg, century egg

(http://www.thesmartlocal.com/read/taiwan-street-food) (http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/eat/40-taiwanese-food-296093) (https://sg.news.yahoo.com/12-must-try-taiwanese-street-133600791.html)

• good design institute cafe (http://thethousandthgirl.com/good-institute-cafe/)
• that fucking place
• aranzi cafe (http://epued.blogspot.com/2014/07/aranzi-cafe-in-taipei.html)
• vvg something (http://www.angloitalianfollowus.com/hipster-heaven-at-taipeis-vvg-something/)
• paddington garden (http://mikkawee.com/2014/06/12/zhongxiao-district-taipei/)
• a380 in-flight restaurant
• heiankyo: matcha mille crepe (https://www.facebook.com/heiankyo.fans)

places

• jiufen (http://mikkawee.com/2014/05/12/jiufen-taipei/)
• beitou: sweetme (1125 http://www.sweetme.com.tw/English/1_About/pricing.php, http://www.sweetme.com.tw/English/1_About/location.php)
• huashan creative park
• eslite bookshop
• ximending shopping district
• fu jin shopping district
• http://english.trtc.com.tw/fp.asp?fpage=cp&xItem=1056373&CtNode=70241&mp=122036

accomodation

• ✔ taipei (6-8; 2 nights): homey hostel (1k http://www.homeyhostel.com/index.aspx), banana hostel (1k http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/Banana-Hostel/Taipei/66772), star hostel (1k http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/Star-Hostel-Taipei-Main-Station/Taipei/85980), first hostel (900 http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/First-Hostel/Taipei/72703)
• jiufen (8-9; 1 night): corner inn (1k), on my way jiufen hostel (900)

transportation

• http://ebus.taoyuan-airport.com/TYairport/LCDLayout01.aspx?output_type=1
• kuo-kuang bus (175 http://www.taiwanbus.tw/information.aspx?Lang=En&Line=4645)
• train hsr station (green ubus shuttle) to taipei main station (250 http://www5.thsrc.com.tw/en/, http://www.taoyuan-airport.com/english/hight-speed-rail)