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Last day in Taipei, Taiwan

On September 11, 2009 · In Taiwan
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My uncle took me for some breakfast near by & the usual soy milk. 2 hours later, my dad’s best high school friend Uncle Wan picked me up with his 24 year old daughter who I played with as a child but barely remember to Sushi by where i’m staying at Hsin-mun-ding. This sushi restaurant [...]

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Life is… “Living in the moment” Dan-Shui

On September 10, 2009 · In Taiwan
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As it comes closer to coming home, I’m fixing my jetlag almost back to normality. I woke up around 9 & took the daily ritual walk around the block w my uncle for breakfast. I had a green onion egg, and ‘fan-twan’ which is a bunch of rice squeezed over shredded dried pork & ‘you-tiau’ [...]

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Taiwan = Shopper’s Heaven

On September 9, 2009 · In Taiwan
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Taiwan has beautiful National parks & Hot springs for tourists. But what do the locals do on a regular basis? Shop and Eat. And that’s pretty much it. And there’s enough of it to go around. We boarded the train by noon and got back around 3 pm. I washed up and got ready real [...]

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Hua-lien with a friend I Just met

On September 8, 2009 · In Taiwan
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Through Monday’s fun-filled day, I met the most interesting and amazing Taiwanese boys & girls around my age. I don’t meet too many Taiwanese back home, and most the Asians I know that grew up around me barely have the interest to travel. These were 30 people who all shared the same interest as me, [...]

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Culinary Heaven – Taiwan Street Food

On September 5, 2009 · In Taiwan
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I flew in last night around 9 pm. My uncle & I walked out from his place on Kun Ming Road in Shing-mun-ding (trendiest neighborhood in Taipei) to Hua-shee-jieh road (Snake Alley). On the way there, I stopped by a street cart for a bbq spicy Corn on the Cob for 1$. It’s nothing like you’ve [...]

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Taiwan – my prideful Root.

On September 5, 2009 · In Taiwan
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  Taipei, Taiwan (My parent’s native land) is a little island off the coast of China no larger than an average US State. ”Ihla Formosa” – beautiful island, once named by the Dutch who fell in love with this magnificent land. Taiwan’s known for the beautiful Agriculture from Mountain to Shining sea, famous for the various [...]

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Typhoon Morakot (Taiwan)

On August 18, 2009 · In Taiwan
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People row a dragon boat to commute through a flooded area in Cangnan county, in east China’s Zhejiang province, Monday Aug. 10, 2009. See more photos of this unfortunate incident: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/08/typhoon_morakot.html

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Guilty Pleasure food

On June 8, 2009 · In Taiwan
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So bad…… that it’s Sooooo Good!!!! PORK LIVER SOUP I had that tonight. It’s a guilty pleasure I have once every few months at Taiwanese deli’s. It’s especially gross sounding to the Non-Pork eaters, and quite frankly, it is kind of gross tasting in need of some serious acquired flavors to understand. It is made [...]

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