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Numbing And Spicy hotpot, which is actually not that hot to me

The pepper bread stall that often has a line of customers

Pepper bread baked on the wall of this tandori style oven

Pepper bread. It is hard to see the size of it from this picture, but I can tell you that it is very big, like the size of a giant grapefruit

Taipei train station

Taipei train station underground shopping street

Martry's Shrine arch entrance

Spacious open area in front of Martyr's Shrine

Close-up of the Shrine

Cenotaph inside the Shrine

A band of guards start from the main arch entrance and have already marched down the long distance to reach the gates in front of the shrine building

The guards salute to each other before the changing ceremony

The two guards who have been in their post the last hour leave the shrine, their post replaced by two new guards

They march down the steps

Very solemn look on their faces

The guards walk back to the arch entrance

They march back to their room

The guards stand at their post in rain or shine. This one is pouring sweat down his face and he can't even wipe it, poor fella!

Luckily a staff helps him wipe his sweat off, and very carefully

I caught this staff talking to the guard in a very low voice. I know chatting is against the rule, but who could blame the latter?

A large Chinese gate preceeds The Grand Hotel

It IS grand

The lobby of Grand Hotel

The hotel has hundreds of large and small columns, and laterns

The Grand Hotel reflected on a street mirror

The café where we had our afternoon tea, which ultimately ruined our dinner appetite

Register counter of the café

My afternoon tea set: very soft and tasty wings, nacho chips and grape juice, iced coffee for KL

KL also got a coffee mousse cake to go with his coffee

We took a stroll along the main street after our tea set, this tree-lined side street is quite pretty

I bought a smoked and stewed duck wing from a hawker and raisin bread from a bakery after our afternoon tea set