Up to date Taipei Pub & Club Guide?

Cuisine Greater Taipei Restaurants
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There’s here geocities.com/TheTropics/Cab … page3.html

but it hasn’t been updated since 1999.

Then there’s here

geocities.com/chunide/clubs.html

but the Taipei Stalker hasn’t been updated since 2002.

Knowing how fast establishments come and go in Taiwan, I’m looking for a guide that’s a little more up to date. Everything completely changes in a year’s time here. So - as July 2003, anyone have any recommendations of where to go and where to avoid? I’m not that familiar with the city and its neighborhoods. I know there’s “the Zone”, Shida, and Tienmu - those seem to be the big pub districts. It’s about a year since the last time I was up that way, and I was thinking of taking a weekend up there sometime soon. I’m totally unfamiliar with the club scene - where’s a decent place to dance the night away with cute xiaojies?

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I haven’t been in Taipei long but here are some of my favorites.

TU (if your a foreigner ask for a VIP card )
Plush/ Room 18 (pretty much the same club to me both are little expensive but more upscale crowd)
B1 (only really enjoyable if your smashed but I still like it)
Saloon (not a dance club but they play good music)
2nd Floor (recommended your into techno)
Bien ( not a dance club but they have cheap drink specials on Sat)

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Anything for the Hsinchu area? Are technoclubs big in there?

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The best techno club is in my head