Eight hotels and two spas in Taiwan were among this year’s Forbes Travel Guide Star Award winners, including the Mandarin Oriental Taipei (文華東方酒店), the only resort in the country to receive a five-star rating.
Forbes Travel Guide on Tuesday published online a list of the winners, with 1,830 hotels, restaurants and spas worldwide given five stars, four stars or a “recommended” rating.
The guide’s inspectors stayed at candidate accommodations for three days and two nights, posing as ordinary guests, to assess up to 900 objective criteria such as decor quality and staff courtesy, it said on its Web site.
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Taiwan’s capital offers some of the best, most affordably priced Japanese food outside of the Land of the Rising Sun.
Taipei may have the best Japanese food in the world outside of Japan. The range and quality of the city’s authentic Japanese restaurants are exceptional. In the days before 24/7 mobile internet connectivity, this was one of Taipei’s kept-kept secrets. The iPhone and Instagram have changed that, raising the profile of high-end sushi restaurants where lunch can easily run NT$3,000 per head, and where dinner is often double that figure.