Won Star Hotel - highly recommended as its fairly new and new to Ximending, but they are not very flexible and not quite 'attentive' to their guests....
On route to checking out Shilin Night Market - the food market area.
Shen Long Temple (i think)
Should make one trip there if you are a believer of Taoism ....Incidentally, temples in Taiwan are very well crafted works of traditional scuplted art done hundreds of years ago.
Worth a look see....
We went during the constipated rally calls for stepping down of Chen Shui Bian.... Actually the rally area was alot smaller than what kept making headlines in regional news programme in Asia.