Traveling for $20 A Day: Taipei, Taiwan – Ep 5

We travel Taipei, Taiwan for only $20 (640NT)! We ate SO MUCH Taiwanese food and Taiwan street food: rice congee, fried pork, milk tea, cold sesame noodles, meatball soup, a scallion pancake, fried chicken, an oyster pancake, and stinky tofu. We visited a Taipei night market and ate a TON of Taipei street food, saw Dihua Street (dry goods market), the Xia Hai City God Temple, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Liberty Square & museum, Waishuangxi, and the Taipei lookout point – ALL in one day, and ALL for 20 dollars!

For dinner, we went to the ShiLin Night Market (士林) on WenLin Lu, close to JianTan MRT station. That was my favorite part of the day!

Cost of traveling Taipei for one whole day:

Rice congee & fried pork: 70 NT
Dihua Street: FREE
Xia-Hai City God Temple: FREE
Cold sesame noodles & meatball soup: 95 NT
Bubble tea: 50 NT
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall: FREE
Large water bottle: 35 NT
Liberty Square & museum: FREE
Waishuangxi: FREE
Taipei lookout point: FREE
Scallion pancake: 30 NT
Run bing (Taiwan burrito): 40 NT
Fried chicken: 70 NT
Oyster pancake: 60 NT
Stinky tofu (split cost): 20 NT
Gas money – 100 NT
Parking fees – 70 NT

— TOTAL COST: 640 NT —

Top Comments:

1. Stayed in Taiwan for 5 days for business visit, loved it! Will visit again!
2. This inspired me so much to stop worrying too much about traveling with a low budget, great food and beautiful walks! Thanks!
3. A lot of people seem excited about Taiwan – hospitality, friendliness, ambiance – do you agree Mr. Abroad?
4. I’m showing this to my Daughter. We are going to Taipei soon and I’m gonna tell her we will keep our budget for food at €20 each. Woot!
5. yo you guys down below in the comment section, stop arguing about the cultural shit between china and taiwan. yeah taiwan had received influences from China (so do from Japan because of the 50 years occupation) and i do agree with Pei, communism in China almost ruins everything cultural. now we have to move on and not to be stuck in the past. i’m a cantonese from China and i really don’t give a damn about the “Taiwan want its independence” thing because this country is already independent lol ! everyone beside the chinese government considers Taiwan as a country, so rest easy….
6. Nice video quality and the Food looks awesome! Ever think about writing a cookbook? Thanks for posting! 🙂
7. damn, i loved the peanut butter noodles both in taiwan and hk were really good, no restaurants make it here in sweden. also one thing i really loved in taiwan was the pineapple, best pineapples i have had, so sweet and good
8. Awesome video. I also heard that people in Taiwan are exceptionally friendly to tourists. However, I’m surprised that an innocent food & travel video “offended” a couple of people simple because it shows Falun Gong practitioners doing meditation in public in Taiwan. It actually shows that people in Taiwan enjoy real freedom. I’m from China, and I hope one day, people in China can practice Falun Gong freely too.
9. It is great filming about Taipei special foods. I expect next time can see you are travelling to Tokyo and Seoul. Thanks. Jenni
10. In addition to the food and people, I love the special moments you capture like the cat with its two back feet on the steps looking at a tank of fish with kinda, freaky expression.