Just shopping today. God I am so tired. First stop by the post shop to buy some stamps to send postcards out. Then onto the bus to the MRT station.
Headed to Guang Hua via MRT first, as there are some new weeby stores in a nearby department store building Syntrend. They have Gundam Base and the Pili Store. I passed Donki first so decided to stop by, and it was fairly quiet. Which was very nice, considering Donki is already sensory overload. But way better than Chemist Warehouse - I hate that place. I love the decorations in Donki and the corresponding artwork of the Donki penguins. With it being quiet it wasn't as much of a drain as it usually would have been! I just bought some eyelash glue, a yuzu dupping sauce, green tea, some snacks and 2 bottles of Gungun Guruto. I forgot now I have to carry all of this for the whole day now...
After coming out from the Donki Dungeon, I headed towards Syntrend. Seems like there's an eatery with outdoor seats in a small Guanghua plaza/courtyard place. There's a huuuuge tree where they built seats in a circle around the tree, and I just sat under the shade for a while and ate the youtiao shaobing sub Yima bought for me. How can something so plain be so yummy?
Tidied up my face and N95'd back up. Inside we go! I went to Gundam Base first, and had a quick look around the shops on 6F. My friend didn't want any of the Base exclusives so I went to the Pili Store on 7F. They have way more merchandise of more of their series, and less displays. I found some TBF merch, it's different to the ones in Taichung. Overall, I think I enjoyed the Taichung Pili store more. The Taipei one was playing Soultra, a PV (J-rock) of 4? of their characters with anime-style illustrations too. Very cool. I think it's neat they're trying something new.
There's also an anime cafe there on 7F (no wonder I keep smelling food), and they were having a Shingeki no Kyojin collab. They also had prev collab goods from Conan and Digimon, too. Awww. The Conan tshirts were really cool but I didn't feel enough attachment to buy them.
Off I go to Ximen now. Onto the MRT and out. This time the Red Building was open, so I went inside for a toilet. They have a genderless toilet! And also a transgender mini exhibit in the main octagon building. Very very cool. It runs until this Sunday. There's a cafe and a gift shop in the Octagon building, and then the rest of the building are various shops. I didn't go all the way into the back of the rectangular building.
On my way to Wan Nian Building now. I found it! In I go. I feel like a lot of the cluttered and messy shops on 3F have been tidied up, like they have better layout and shelving now. I think using the acrylic boxes to display figures is the current trend. On 4F it's just, a lot of Gunpla and model toy stores. Great, because this is what I came for! Well, to be precise, shopping for my friend. The shop staff are friendly and invite you to ask them if you're looking for something. I even found the sushi set that my friend was looking for as a gift.
Mag Freak is still on the 4F and just next to the elevator. Sadly, a lot of the anime merch now aren't for my interests, so I don'y have a lot to buy. On 4F there's a small shop with all sorts of merch (including some bootleg) run by an older auntie, and I took some time to sift through. A lot of these would make great gifts but they weren't the right fandoms for friends that would enjoy these. There's also a store with heaps of Pokemon plushies, I found Flygon!! But he's $940 so I gave up. There's also a small Sanrio type store with lots of anime nuis hanging outside too, sadly, none for me. I think I have fun just looking through the various merch in case I find something suitable for a gift or something I'd like. I get enjoyment from that.
As usual, there's a lot of shoe shops and fashion stores. I hope this building continues to thrive, it's a great place that's been around since the 80's and filled with many childhood memories for lots, I'm sure.
By the time I was done it was arunf 4:30pm, and I just spent some time looking around the stores. Then I started getting hungry (I haven't hydrated properly today either) so decided to go home. I was pretty exhausted.
When I got out of Wanfang Hospital MRT, there was a vendor selling danbing on a cart. $50. Yes please, I'd like one. It looked really nice. Take it home with my 2 big gunpla kits on the bus.
Got home, doffed, washed my hands, and ate my danbing (egg spring onion cake). The sauce was really nice, the vendor added 2 sauces. One spicy and one something else. Yima went out to buy stinky tofu at my request, and the one she got was a pretty big portion. The pickles from this shop wasn't that great. The tofu stinky though and the sauce was great. Just chilled and was absolutely smashed.
I thought the Gunpla would have some space in the box like figure boxes but... because of how the plates are made it's actually just bulky and lots of space taken.
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