No candy tonight(ó﹏ò｡)

    Happy late Halloween everyone! I hope if you weren't able to go out that you at least had a fun night watching scary movies or pigging out on something sweet maybe. It was my hope that we could go to one of the Halloween parties I read about, because Taipei apparently has quite a few big gatherings, but we just didn't plan for it. No costumes and no where really in mind to go, we dressed all in black in spirit of the day, and headed for the Taipei main station area. I had seen Halloween icecream advertisements around but couldn't remember which place was serving it. We wandered all around the mall food court area and finally found it at ColdStone.

                                         

They had a deal where if you bought any of the medium sized ice creams and you made a scary face at the register, then you could get a free one of these "Toothless" desserts. I was of course happy to oblige.Yue got herself a tea ice cream with red beans and pieces of pistachio which turned out to be DELICIOUS. It was way better than the free ice cream mostly because it was so much less sweet. The toothless ice cream tasted like bubble gum with little pieces of raspberry or something, not the greatest flavor, but still fun to try. It was topped with gummy teeth and some Halloween cookies. 

Having had our fill of sweet stuff for the day we went to the underground mall which we have frequented a few times since we've been here. They had some decorations up around the mall and they even had their mascots dressed in costumes. We walked through looking at the figures again and the merchandise, never can get sick of looking at everything.

We later went back to the food court for dinner and had the worst food experience we've had so far (aside from the maid cafe lol).

We tried the Indian food place and were severely disappointed. The presentation looked nice, typical curry dish with a side of large naan (it was unusually large).

Sadly the presentation is all this meal had going for it, the curry was bland and the chicken was still pink! The bread was big, but very tough, almost stale when it should be soft and easily tearable. We were pretty horrified and now we know that at least back home we can get good Indian food.

   After our meal we decided to go to Ximen again in the hopes they maybe had something going on for Halloween. There were plenty of people as is typical for a Friday, but not many people were dressed up. I saw a few groups of kids and parents in costume and small groups of friends scattered amongst the crowd, but Ximen was really no different from usual. There were a few more street performers out doing their thing and there was even a foreigner among them tonight. He sounded like an American to me when he spoke and when questioned by the security guy he held up a badge. I guess they have performing licenses people can get so they don't always have to run whenever the security comes by (like the food vendors have to do). Anyway the night was getting late and I suppose all the cool costumed people were at parties so we called it a night and headed back. We ended the evening by watching the Halloween episode of Modern Family and of course American Horror Story. 

What did you guys do this Halloween?


P.S. Yue also got her first cartilage piercing on our trip to Ximen. We pass the piercing shops often and finally just went in haha. Don't know if i'm up for a new one again yet.