Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, is a city where silence plays hide-and-seek (and it's really good at it) and life-pace is rather fast . Scooters and convenience stores (7-11, Family Mart, Hi-life, etc.) are literally everywhere, making daily life so convenient for the more than 7.5 million people in the Taipei metropolitan area. In fact, if you ask many of the locals and foreigners, one word to describe Taipei, and Taiwan in general is: Convenient . Taiwan may be small in si