1 post tagged “sinica”
Accommodations
Inside Academia Sinica
Activities Center
There are 72 single rooms, 54 double-rooms and one suite in the Activities Center. To book rooms, you may either ask your Institute or visit the Academia Sinica English web page for booking on-line. The Activities Center is a convenient place to stay for short periods of time while looking for more permanent housing. One can also reserve a room here through an Institute in Academia Sinica. Some guests stay for a long period of time, but if the Center fills up with guests and you have been there for more than a month, you may be asked to leave.
For booking on-line, please check this website:
ROOM CHARGE OF CENTER OF ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Tel: (+886-2) 2785-2717 ; Fax: (+886-2) 2783-3905
Shopping & Restaurants
Academia Sinica General Store
To get to Academia Sinica General Store, take the stairs to the right of the post office. The store carries packaged food items (crackers, instant noodles, juice) and daily necessities (toilet paper, toothpaste etc.). You need to bring your own bags, because the store does not provide them.
Opening Hours: Mon.- Fri. 09:30 ~ 16:30
Chinese Restaurant
This is located on the first floor of the Activities Center. This restaurant offers breakfast, Chinese buffet lunch, quick meals, noodles, snacks and banquet catering.
Hours of operation: Breakfast: 07:30 ~ 09:00
Lunch: 11:30 ~ 13:30
Dinner: 17:00 ~ 20:30
Coffee shop
This is also located on the first floor of Activities Center and offers coffee, tea, cold drinks, cakes and set meals such as sandwich for breakfast or Asian style noodles as well as rice courses and steak.
Hours of operation: 09:00 ~ 22:00
European-Style Restaurant
This restaurant is located behind the Activities Center and features a salad bar and soup and main dishes for lunch and dinner. The food here is more expensive, but is one of the few local venues for western cooking.
Hours of operation: Lunch: 11:30 ~ 14:00; Dinner: 17:30 ~ 20:30.
Vegetarian Self-Serve Restaurants
1. One restaurant is located behind the “Institute of Ethnology”.
2. Go out the main gate and turn right. Pass by the Hu-Shih Elementary School (on your left) and cross the street. The vegetarian self-serve restaurant is on your left-hand side. The prices are reasonable, and the owner is friendly and trustworthy (You do not have to worry about meat products mixed with the vegetables). Like most self-serve restaurants, price is based on weight. Notice that Chinese vegetarianism prohibits the use of garlic and onions, and relies heavily on substitute meat.
3. There’s also one inside the Activities Center Chinese Restaurant, but vegetarian food is served only during the lunch hours.
