Mom and Simone arrived safely at Taoyuan Airport with all of their luggage - and my archery equipment! They looked pretty good considering the length of the trip and the time change.
We caught the bus to Songshan Airport, then caught the MRT to Dazhi Station. From there we walked the two and a half blocks to my apartment. At 9am it was already 35C - quite the shocker for them! Once they had settled in at my place I headed to work.
I picked them up at my apartment later that day and we caught a cab to the Dandy Hotel. They checked in and after a bit of a refresher we went to Din Tai Fung for dinner. We got there around 5pm, which turned out to be perfect timing as we got a table right away. We ordered pork xiaolongbao (soup dumplings), shrimp shaomai, pork and shimp shuijiao (boiled dumplings) mushroom baozi (steamed buns), and red bean paste baozi.
Our waitress demonstrated how to mix the soy sauce and vinegar dip for the xiaolongbao, and how to eat them properly - dip the dumpling in the sauce mix, put it in a soup spoon, puncture it with a chopstick, and then pop it into your mouth.
It was pouring rain when we left the restaurant but we had a brief walk around the neighbourhood before heading back to the hotel. We sat down to watch a bit of telly, but about 20 minutes later Simone was asleep and Mom was fading fast. I said goodnight and caught a cab home.
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