Kuala Lampur, May 13 -- Google Taipei travel recommendations and it's invariably many variations of "hot springs"/"night markets"/"bookstores"/"food tours."

Within my first day in the city, I learned something no travel guide told me about: Taiwan is weeb paradise.

There were gachapon machines everywhere, Hello Kity, Pokemon as well as various other cute mascots from all the Japanese popular IPs everywhere from pharmacies to cafes.

I confess my wallet trembled even if my inner five-year-old was ecstatic.

A little shamefacedly I admit that when I wasn't eating Taiwanese food, I was eating Japanese cuisine instead, but it was very good Japanese food, all right?

Japanese food, brands, clothes, pharmacies...I wondered if I'd bought mysel...