Five Takes

I just happened to stumble across 5 Takes this evening on TV.

It’s a program I’ve never watched before, but was fascinated by the concept: 5 people are given a bit of money, a laptop and a camera (crew, perhaps) and sent on trips. Personally, I wanted to audition but I’m too old, too married and too employed to go galavanting off like this.

Anyway, there’s no particular reason I hadn’t watched the show yet, just that it was never convenient. Tonight, which flipping through the channels I saw something you almost never see on US television: Taipei. Since it was on the Travel Channel, I had to stop and watch.

There’s such a lack of anything on Taiwan it was nice to see something and I think it was quite positive, overall. Taipei is a great, vibrant city with lots of interesting things to do.

One of them ate the obligatory “Stinky Tofu”, but they were duped into eating it boiled – even my wife won’t eat boiled stinky tofu – fried only.

I thought the guy who ate it was going to hurl right back into the hot pot on the table.

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