Da’an in japanese Taipei has a popularity for being an prosperous, upmarket district. It’s dwelling to the busiest buying belt within the metropolis — Zhongxiao East Street Part 4. It’s also identified for having a excessive focus of high-end residences alongside its large, tree-lined avenues, channelling the elegant former French Concession in Shanghai, and fine-dining eating places tucked into the alleys behind.
How bourgeois is Da’an? When cult magnificence model L’Officine Universelle Buly 1803, a Nineteenth-century French apothecary’s outlet restored by the founding father of cult candle model Cire Trudon, opened its first standalone retailer abroad, Taipei was the chosen metropolis.
The Taipei outpost of Officine Universelle Buly is on a leafy boulevard in Da’an, near Da’an Forest Park, the biggest park in Taipei and town’s reply to New York’s Central Park.
Throughout my return to the capital in December 2022 post-pandemic — simply two months after Taiwan lifted COVID-19 journey restrictions and reopened, I used to be hardly stunned by the variety of new retailers, eating places, and bars which have sprouted over the district in only a few years. In spite of everything, Da’an is the place to be.
Supply: Her World