Today I met up with Momo and we went to Wanlong where we got some good Taiwanese food and I met many people in Momo's family. It's my second day in Taiwan and it seems like every meal is huge! I'm always totally full after any meal here. 
From there we stopped back at the hotel so I could pick up my suit and then went to a photo studio in Minquan. In Taiwan they have these professional style photo studios for family, wedding, or any other picture you want to talk. It's famous in Japan to, so when we got there all the customers there were Japanese women. We got there a little after 3:00 and looked through the book they had of clothes they had available for pictures. Momo brought the black dress I got her for her birthday and I brought my suit for the first set of pictures. For the second set she picked out a red china dress and I also wore "traditional" style clothes to match. They started with Momo and did her make up and hair and then did make up for me as well. From there we went into the studio which had around 20 different settings in which to take pictures in. It was really cool! The photographer was really cool and friendly. After the first set of pictures in the dress and suit, we changed outfits, Momo had her hair changed and we went back into the studio for the next set of pictures. When we finished we changed back into the clothes we came in and left around 8:00.
At night we headed to Ximen which is a shopping area for younger people similar to Shibuya in Tokyo. The main streets were lined with food vendors selling all kinds of food. The crazy thing about it was that it's not allowed so whenever the police come down the street all the street vendors quickly move their carts to the side street so they don't get fined. After the police pass through all the vendors move back to the main street. It's actually really funny to watch. We saw some interesting foods that had a very unique shape and had some good snack foods and bubble tea.
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