this city has actually a lot to offer these are my 30 hidden secrets and

best places to visit in Taipei. Now what better than to start off your Taipei

adventure with an epic Taiwanese breakfast. Fu Hang Soy Milk is the most

popular breakfast joint in town and it's so popular that people will wait hours

in line just to get that fresh batch of bread. Breakfast at Fu Hang Soy Milk is

very affordable and the quintessential breakfast for many locals here for 110 NT

roughly $3.60 USD this is an incredible

breakfast deal. Breadstick sandwich which is one of the highlights here so it's

deep fried bread, deep fried bread on a bun I don't know how to come up with

but it is actually really good. Yeah, I can see what the hype is all about this

is amazing! All right so we're gonna top it off with some Dou Jiang which is the

soy milk oh yes oh this works great with the bread and the pancake, that's an

ideal breakfast here in Taipei. Now before we dive into the city take a

quick day trip to Jiufen, a former gold mining town just an hour east of Taipei.

This cute little mountain town has gorgeous scenery and delicious foods

you must try like peanut ice cream rolls and stinky tofu, it is stinky because

it's fermented tofu. Wow that is so good, it is a bit stinky but in the end it's

well worth it. Just make sure to top off your Jiufen adventure with a little tea

ceremony at the A-Mei teahouse, the most beautiful tea house in all of Taiwan.

Fried chicken is one of the most popular street foods here in Taiwan so I had to

drop by the famous fried chicken founding headquarters to pick up a batch

of fried snacks I decided to enjoy these snacks at the Zhishan garden located

right next to the National Palace Museum. True serenity outside the bustling

city of Taipei.

Alright guys so we're here at the National Palace Museum park and it's

time to try the authentic Taiwanese chicken nuggets. Now one thing about the

chicken nuggets these are completely different from McDonald's chicken

nuggets, the main difference being is they keep

little pieces of bone inside the chicken nugget so the meat stays nice and tender

compared to the really dry taste you may get from McDonald's or KFC chicken

nuggets. And they season it a little bit with basil. Oh oh I like this I like this a

lot! Why McDonald's? Why can't you just do it right?!

As you can see the inside looks just like a regular chicken nugget, oh my god!

Another popular snack is rice sausage, I've never heard of it... wow, Taiwan really knows

their snacks, nice and wet inside as a sticky rice should really be.

The National Palace Museum has a permanent collection of 700,000 pieces of ancient

Chinese artifacts and it is one of the largest Chinese art collections in the

world encompassing 8,000 years of Chinese history. The nationalist leader

Chiang kai-shek tried to safeguard these Chinese treasures during the

Communist revolution on mainland China and have been here on Taiwan ever since

1949 and that's why this museum is considered very controversial.

All right, time to go back downtown for some dinner!

Taipei is the food capital of Asia but with that reputation comes a lot of

strange foods and restaurants as well so what better than to have a delightful

beef curry in a toilet bowl at the toilet restaurant. It's a toilet full of curry

at least I hope it's actual curry, let's get it nice in there and

into the curry sauce and scoop it out of the toilet.

oh this is great that's actually really good curry. Don't forget to try their

poop meatballs and poop ice cream as well. Another strange dinner activity

is prawn fishing, here you can fish your own prawns

at this bizarre indoor pool, once you captured a bunch, throw them on the

barbecue and enjoy! And this is the final result, the first catch of today

some of these prawn fishing shops are open 24 hours and the record holder at

this place caught 43 prawns in one hour, my attempts to break this record we were miserable

if you really want to step up your dinner party, head towards snake alley

at the Huaxi night market, here you will find the most bizarre restaurants

in the world but I came here specifically to try snake venom, snake

blood and snake skin salad, but for that video you'll have to watch my complete

snake alley episode. Supposedly there's a lot of health benefits to this...

That was like a really strong alcohol but venom, VENOM! Moving on to the cutest

cafe in Taipei the Rilakkuma cafe another famous themed cafe here in Taipei

00:05:24,449 --> 00:05:29,139 This cafe offers super cute lunches and dinner experiences.

I ordered the omelet with rice and a coffee doesn't this just look adorable.

"Don't you drown me!" As expected the meatballs and the omelet were rich and

delicious, they also sell a bunch of cute desserts and merchandise. Top off all

this madness with an incredible shaved ice dessert at the Ice Monster.

Ice Monster is one of the best shaved ice shops here in Taipei, now they were

about to close so I had the whole place to myself, usually you can expect

long waiting lines, so either come super early or right before closing time. My

recommendation, the almond shaved ice, which set me back 220 new Taiwan dollars.

Dessert time, this thing looks amazing it's red beans, almond jelly and almond

shaped ice, it's not even like icy it's more like flaky, flaky bits of almond. I'm

digging a cave right here, I just want to live in it. The most iconic building in

Taiwan is Taipei 101 and the best place to observe this Marvel of a building is

the Elephant Mountain but to get to the top you'll need to take these super

steep stairways so make sure you take many breaks to catch your breath and

drink plenty of water especially during the scorching summer heat but once you

reach the top you can enjoy these mesmerizing views of Taipei 101 as you

can see it's an absolute boiling day it I think it's like 36 degrees with an

insane humidity, sweat is literally dripping off my skin here next up the

observatory deck of Taipei 101. Did you know Taipei 101 used to be the

world's tallest building between 2004 and 2010 from Taipei 101 you can take in

these stunning views of the entire city although the entrance fee is a bit

pricey, 600 new Taiwan dollars per ticket which is roughly 20 US dollars so make

sure you come and visit on a very clear day otherwise it's not worth your hard-earned

dollars. In the basement you will find Michelin star dumpling restaurant

Din Tai Fung, this place is absolutely massive notorious for its Xiaolongbao

better known as soup dumplings so this is the Xiaolongbao, you pick it up from

the top and you put it in your little spoon then you poke a hole, so the

soup base will fall in your spoon.

Oh that's so good, almost like creamy pork but it's delicious the heat and

temperature is absolutely on point. So another way to eat the dumpling is with

soy sauce, vinegar and ginger.

Wow Taipei, you nail it out of the park!

This is incredible! This place may be a bit pricey but trust me you'll be blown

away by the most delicious dumplings in Taiwan, quality over quantity.

If time permits, check out the bizarre Core Pacific shopping mall which looks

identical to the Death Star. Because it looks exactly like a Death Star.

Even the entry points, that's just nuts.

Kick off the next day with a seafood adventure.

Now I am really big into seafood so I had to venture out to the most high-end

fish market in town, the Addiction fish market. This fish

market has an incredible selection of fresh seafood, so fresh that it may even

run away. You won't find this level of freshness in most parts of the world so

time to try out this fresh batch of Taiwanese seafood products. I'm super

stoked, it's morning, I'm having some lunch. All right, time to

start off with the fresh sashimi, look at this box my god what a presentation.

salmon sashimi

oh my god that literally melts on the tip of my tongue that is absolutely perfect.

Really good tuna is usually really hard to come by. oh wow, that is so juicy for fish.

It's not dry it's absolutely perfect, like it literally

just came fresh out of the sea they nailed this out of the park. I'm really

impressed with this sashimi. Spicy fish eggs this is the part of the salmon

where she stores the eggs. Whoa, that's a very unique taste all the little eggs

popping in my mouth. I can see why this is one of the best fishery markets in

the country. Nothing beats grilled eel, BBQ grilled

eel. Oh man, it's still warm, it's still warm. I just, I want to eat this whole thing.

I am little heaven heaven, unagi heaven. This gorgeous place is the Chiang kai-shek

memorial hall. Chiang kai-shek can be considered the founder of modern Taiwan.

He took the Chinese Nationalist government from mainland China to Taiwan

during the Communist revolution. This is the main plaza in downtown Taipei. We got the main

memorial of Chiang kai-shek in the background and this is the national

theater. Moving on to the Ximending shopping district which many have compared to

Tokyo's Harajuku district for its funky fashion and youth culture. Inside

of the Ximending district you will find the Ay-Chung rice noodle shop. This

place is always packed with customers which is a good indicator for quality.

I got myself a small portion 450 new Taiwan dollars which is around $1.60 USD.

Thick gravy, thin noodles and bits of pig intestine making this

snack a must try and Ximending, oh that's hot but it's delicious, that

broth is so good it's so thick and the pork intestine really adds quite the

flavor. Another good spot in Ximending district is Laotian Lu for its wide selection

of braised duck from duck tongue, duck feet, duck hearts, duck intestines to duck

head. Go watch my entire duck episode for my complete braised duck review, the link

will be in the description box below. Oh man, this is pretty intense.

What am I doing? Now a hidden secret here in Taipei is ice cream shop Snow King

especially if you want to challenge yourself. One thing guys the ice cream

flavors are quite expensive, around $4 bucks a scoop. Chili pepper, pork

knuckle, how about some soybean curd. Hey, and if you're at it

some Taiwan beer @ 3.5%, not that bad. I'm gonna get drunk off ice cream today.

They have 73 flavors, check these out this is Taiwan beer @ 3.5%

and Kaoliang @ 58%. Kaoliang is a strong distilled Chinese liquor with an alcohol

percentage ranging from 38% to 63% that's why Kaoliang smells extremely

strong. Stings the nostrils. That's just insanity, so you wanna get

wasted this is the right place to come to.

Oh man, those are puke reflections kicking in, that's too strong I don't think I can

take much more of that.

You can always settle for some sesame oil chicken ice cream. Oh, I'm not liking that.

I'm not liking that, it's like big pieces of chicken are in the ice cream.

You can 't make you stuff up, I give them a 10 for at least trying. So yea guys after all

those crazy ice creams let's top it off with something nice, the custard apple

ice cream. Mmm oh that's nice, the good thing about this place is the

ice cream in general isn't as sweet this is actually real ice cream. If the

alcohol drenched ice cream was an extreme enough for you how about a

knife massage. All right guys we're doing a little

warm-up here, before we go into the knife room. The zen is coming to me, now it's time

for the knives! I consider this another hidden secret

here in Taipei most tourists do not know about. Enjoy a one-hour knife massage

with a knife massage practitioner. So here are the knives, they're real cleavers

Don't try this at home you may injure yourself. Luckily, their training is very

strict they required to be vegetarian and meditate on a daily basis although

when it came to my skull I got a little freaked out. So another procedure will

involve the skull, let's see how that's gonna go.