24 September 2006: More Books and Chicken Rice

Francoise, Jasmine and I went to the Eslite Main Store at Zhongxiao Dunhua South Road（忠孝敦化南路）. The usual foursome became a threesome today because Hisashi had abandoned us for his newfound friends of the NTU cycling club. A sense of despair overwhelms us, but WE HOPE THAT HE ENJOYS HIS NEW COMPANY!

Francoise bought some children's books, and Jasmine a novel entitled The Dante Club. We all agreed that the store offers a small English collection, and so proceeded down to Taipei 101, which houses a bookshop known as Page One on its fourth storey.

Page One is an exact replica of Singapore's Kinokuniya Orchard. The books are slightly steeper in price, but many bestsellers and English classics can be found there. Page One can certainly boast of a wider foreign collection than the Eslite franchise.

For dinner, we ate Hainanese chicken rice at the restaurant that I had mentioned in my previous post the day before. The chicken was not tender enough, but the rice passable. Simply put, it's just plain decent for an exorbitant NTD 120 that I had paid for the meal. The best chicken rice in the world can only be found in Singapore! Singapore rocks!