Articles about life in Taiwan

‘caveat emptor’- let the buyer beware
One would think that to find true knowledge, he/she must go to the source. While it is true that Taiwan and it’s many masters are a vastly important ‘living archive’ of the martial arts, my personal opinion is that while the quality of [...]

Today was one of those days that my “McDonald’s urge” hit me and thus I found myself buying a number 4 meal, and, for lack of a China Post, sitting alone looking at a cutout of Ronald. It then dawned on me the scary possibility that Ronald represents my (our) place in Taiwanese society.
Think about [...]

update:
The presidential election between Frank Hsieh and Ma Ying Jiu is just about over Ma is currently leading by about 2 million votes (7.6 million to 5.4 million). Ma is way ahead in and appears to be a lock to become the next president of Taiwan. Let’s hope that his promises ring true.

This is a shirt that one of my students often wears to class. In Taiwan, the style for a long time now is to have English words on your T-shirts. Sometimes they have no errors and are grammatically sound. Many times though they will contain spelling errors, garbled words and/or terrible grammar.
Here [...]

I just caught wind of an article online that says the price of airline tickets for domestic Taiwanese airlines (Eva Airways, China Airlines) are going to increase by quite a bit, especially to America.

Here is a bit from the article:
Taipei, March 5, 2008 (CENS)–In reflecting soaring oil prices, domestic airlines will hike [...]

Happy New Year everyone! I thought I’d usher in the year of the rat with the top 10 reasons Taiwan is independent from China.
Taiwan’s independence from China is an extremely puzzling issue to many people I know. The China - Taiwan conflict as it were, seems to be mostly about bullying from China [...]

Here is a short video from American Basketball player Jon Sanders, who has made the move to play in Taiwan’s basketball league. He is the only foreigner i the league. Some key points of the video are him speaking of how the refs stopped calling a lot of the fouls on him because: [...]

Happy New Year to everybody. I got my first surprise of the year when a blue truck with loudspeakers parked in my neighborhood blaring an advertisement for an upcoming political rally whose main event was none other than presidential candidate Ma Ying Jiu and a local politician. Here is the slideshow link to [...]

This is the latest segment of the N***** King story. According to Poagao some westerners saw the sign, alerted authorities, who in turn alerted the owner to the meaning of the store name. The owner then changed it to this… Hmmmm…..
Oddly similar to the original don’t ya think?! [...]

This video was made by National Geographic, so hopefully that will add some credibility to it. Do they actually think that making a video of people preparing bull penises would be a good way to draw more viewers? I don’t know. Lets find out.
Some quotes from the video about eating the bull’s junk: It’s a [...]

Tainan City has put out a video tourism guide. it is a video that shows many of the cultural heritage sites in Tainan. Sites include The Wu Fei temple, Fort An Ping, The Confucius Temple, Chih Kan Lou, Sacrificial Rites Martial Temples, Temples of Heavenly Holy Mother and The Eternal Golden Castle. [...]

Yeah, the title is the name of a shop that sells Hip Hops accessories in Jungli Taiwan. The Chinese for it is Hei (1) Ren (2) Wang (2), and the literal translation is more like black person king. This store wouldn’t last more than 2 minutes in the US (and many other places) [...]

An F5f Military plane crashed during an exercise in Taiwan on May 11th, and the New Hampshire Bushman was on his roof photographing the whole thing. This is a very interesting story, and you should check out his website for more of what’s happening. He has taken the best pictures and provided [...]

If you didn’t know before, Taiwan has many places where you can go, rent a fishing pole and catch some prawns for dinner. I have been to a few indoor ones, and they are basically a small swimming pool with murky water and they toss buckets of big prawns into them for you to [...]

** Update: I think the child has been found. Can anyone verify this? I have been busy lately and not had a chance to watch the TV.
There has been a young Taiwanese girl kidnapped a few days ago in Tainan county. She was on a scooter that was forced over when [...]