Shopping & entertainment Among many night markets, Shilin Night Market in the Shilin District is the most famous. Huashi Street Night Market is famous for snake shops. Ximending, the well-known shopping and entertainment area since 1930s, has also a wide spectrum of restaurants. Shops and restaurants are to be found also around Taipei Main Station; among them Mitsukoshi department store at Shin Kong Life Tower. CPCity Living Mall, situated on the border of Hsin-yi and Sung-shan Districts, has a very outstan
Food & drink Taipei exquisite cuisine spans from noodle street shops to haute cuisine with greater style. Every cooking style of the mainland is represented, as well as the Japanese one, since Taiwan was for 50 years Japanese colony. Taiwanese cuisine resembles mostly that of China's Fujian Province. Ximending, an exuberant neon-lighted night life-and-shopping zone resembles Shibuya in Tokyo.
Climate & weather Humid subtropical. Hot and humid, rainy summers, and cool, damp winters. The average annual temperature is 23.6 °C (74.5 °F). The Pacific typhoon season occurs between June and October. The most comfortable season to visit is late autumn (October and November), when the average temperatures stay around mid 20°C and there is little rain.
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