Location: CELEBRITY'S Champagne (Celebrity Taste Champagne International), Dadaocheng, Taipei
Travel note summary: After finishing the 30-episode drama 'Blossoms' starring Hu Ge over the weekend, which features many scenes about the Shanghai Stock Exchange, I felt inspired and booked a visit in the afternoon to the Stock Museum, one of the few museums in Taipei I hadn't seen yet. After the tour and seeing the physical TSMC stock certificate, in the evening, I thought, why not drop by Christophe's shop in Dadaocheng? I came on a whim, and Christophe happened to be there. We opened a pink champagne that costs 8,000 at Star City to taste. Taiwan is tiny—I ran into Xiaochun, the owner of Pro Wine Cellar from Taichung, here. At first, I didn't recognize him until he kept talking about some Southeast Asian girl... and I realized he was talking about me! Then we caught up. @@ Another wine merchant owner, Eva, turned out to be my junior from the art class at Chung Yi High School, 13 years below me. Christophe's two female staff are also impressive: Luna is a beauty graduated from NTNU, and Carol has WSET Level 3. I chatted a lot with each of them. Thanks to Christophe for treating us to ot…
