Location: Taipei, Dr.Origins Da Cheng Lifestyle Store at Dream Plaza. After a meeting at the World Trade Center in the evening, it suddenly started raining pretty hard as I was about to leave. I remembered Tom mentioning there's a skybridge from the second floor of the WTC all the way to Taipei City Hall Station, so I decided to give it a try. I went back to the second floor of the WTC, took the skybridge to Taipei 101, had a simple dinner downstairs, then went back to the second floor of 101, walked through a few Shin Kong Mitsukoshi buildings, and finally crossed the street to Dream Plaza. It was still raining, so I figured I'd find a place to sit and wait it out. Da Cheng has nine branches across Taiwan, mainly selling Italian wines. I've had drinks at three of them, from Taichung to Taipei. The barista, Kelly, a Libra, was quite cute and chatty, so one glass turned into two, then three, and finally four. By the end, I'm not even sure if the rain had stopped outside. — By Morgan, evening of June 4, 2026.
