We’re in Taipei. I’m very proud of my kids, their behavior was almost flawless over the long haul to Taiwan. The flight was tedious, but I managed to sleep for about 2/3 of it. I was amused by Singapore Air’s choice of TV shows. While I appreciate their choice of Doctor Who as one of … Read more
I’m quite looking forward to our rapidly approaching trip to Taiwan to visit my wife’s parents, but there’s just one area that really bothers me… but things are looking up this time.
That area? The Toilet Paper dilemma.
The details may not be for everyone. Only read on if you dare…
Foo(d) Bar Blog => Din Tai Fung There’s a funny thing about doing food and restaurant reviews. Even though I know fully well that each person has their own taste and that you can’t hope to agree with anyone except perhaps yourself, there’s a certain weird self-affirmation when you run across someone who records a … Read more
The Taiwan Kid => Turkey-Flavored Doritos Somewhere Dr. Evil has a lab where they cook up these products: I’ll give you something to Ho!, Ho!, Ho! about–how about Doritos Roasted Turkey flavored chips? And the chips are even shaped like Christmas trees! It would be easy to think that this is some sort of art … Read more
My wife brought the Reader’s Digest article to my attention the other day. Apparently Taipei came out at or near the bottom in terms of the Digest’s rudeness scale for cities. The article she was reading was in Chinese, so there wasn’t much point in my blogging it – and naturally, I haven’t read it.
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.
June 5, 2001 – June 14, 2001 We’ve been in Taipei just over a week and things have finally begun shaking. When we arrived at Chiang Kai-Shek airport I was at first disappointed that we arrived at the old terminal 1 building. They recently opened a newer, bigger, more modern terminal 2. For whatever reason, … Read more
Sunday we caught the Taipei Rapid Transit System (TRTS) train north to Tanshui which is at the mouth of the Tanshui river as it spills out into the East China Sea.
Saturday was both Chu-Wan’s mother’s and brother’s birthday. I was surprised when, first thing in the morning, her mother gave me a present. It was rather awkward as I didn’t really understand how to interpret this. The present was a very nice (and expensive) designer belt from Paris. Unfortunately, it was too big and we took it back to the Sogo Department store to exchange it for a smaller one.
Friday morning we were informed that the roads were still impassable because of the earthquake two nights before, so no tour busses were coming up from Chiayi. We had been planning on taking one of the tour busses around town to see the sights. Now we were on foot and on our own.