Let me start with a Happy Chinese New Year to everybody! 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit Going to Japan during Chinese New Year break is starting to be a classic for us. From 29th January to 06th February we moved quite a lot around Japan. To make it easier to digest I will […]
A month ago or so, in a cafe in the Shida night-market are I spotted an advert about a “pets carnival” to be celebrated on early January. As I enjoy freak stuff (and I convinced Anna to join) we paid a visit to the exhibition. Walking around Taipei is not unusual to see pets (specially […]
Our new flat has a cheaper rental but everything has a hidden cost. One of the differences in the new flat is that we now need to manage the trash ourselves (in the other flat the people managing the building took care of it), and we had to learn how it works in Taipei (Taiwan […]
Probably you have seen more than once videos of people fighting (boxing/karate) at some parliament. Quite often these images are from Taiwanese or South Korea parliament. Here below you have a brawl at the Taiwanese parliament on July 2010 while discussing about the EFCA agreement. Next November 27th there will be municipal elections to five […]
Since we arrived we have noticed that a lot of people wear glasses in Taiwan. We could find some statistics that around 90% of the young people have to wear glasses or contact lenses. With these figures, there is obviously fashion around glasses. One of the most funny trends is to find people that wear […]
Architecture / Culture / Freak / Made in Taiwan / Turisme
June 12, 2010 Comments Off on Let’s go to the sea!First time to go to the beach! We are in the mood to explore outside Taipei during weekends to enjoy some fresh air from nearby mountains or the sea. Let’s be a weekend tourist. As we read that there was a sand sculptures exhibition, we headed towards Fulong, one of the Taipei closest beach areas, […]
Just by chance I recently found an article about a book/exhibition “Ost trifft West” (aka East Meets West) that depicts the differences of German & Chinese culture using easy to understand images. After almost 5 months in Taipei I couldn’t agree more on the comparisons that Liu Yang makes on various topics. In any case […]
I can not recall when or why, Anna and I said “chinita tu, chinita yo” (chinese little girl you, chinese little boy me). After using Google to find the source of this sentence from the back of our memory we found “Chinita de Amol” from a famous clowns group in Spain on the 80’s (“Los […]
Walking around Taipei you can find a lot of restaurant with this sign: The chinese texts says something like “No to US beef.” Other restaurants also display a pro Taiwanese beef image Beef dishes, specially beef noodles are very popular in Taiwanese cuisine. So, obviously, we asked local people and researched on the internet about […]
You always heard that all Chinese people (or Asian people in general) look the same, right? There is a website 100% dedicated to this subject: AllLookSame :) Do you think you can distinguish them? It is not easy! :) You can test yourself on the Exam Room on the website, not only about faces but […]
