Taipei might not have a ton of bars, but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of good places to quench your thirst.
If you go by the stats, Taipei isn’t a good place to be thirsty. With a population of around 2.7 million, the city has less than 250 watering holes. Paris, on the other hand, with half a million fewer holes to water, has over 3,200 drinking establishments, speakeasies, nightspots, clubs, dives, pubs, and bars. Yes, on the surface, the numbers don’t look encouraging. But like a lot of things in Taipei, you have to dig to get to the good stuff. Scratch and claw a bit, just a little, and you’ll find the city does indeed have that side of it that stays up too late, drinks too much, and blocks out the maudlin concrete world behind black curtains and whatever kind of song the moment or the mood might ask for. For the spirited traveler, Taipei has much in the way of that healthy form of hedonism that makes life worth living. After all, we’re only human.