Articles about life in Taiwan

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 [...]

That’s what the word on the street is. From 10am ~ 12noon Friday March 16th you can go to any Starbucks Coffee in Taiwan, pick out any drug you want, and slam it back for free.

If you have never been to a night market in Taiwan, you are missing out for sure. There are lots of great snack foods and cheap things to buy. It is a very popular place to go as well, and the markets are usually jam packed with people there to go shopping or [...]

From the poster:
Roadside vender in Taiwan… you pick what you want and he fry them up for you… I had tempuras, pig blood cake, chicken butt, rice filled pig intestine, and calamaries… I loved it. Taiwan 2002

We received this article along with a link to a website called the Taiwan Alliance to Combat Trafficking, or TaiwanACT. It’s about the very real plight of many foreign workers that come to Taiwan. It’s not a story of happiness and freedom, but of rape and despair.
By K. Oanh Ha
Mercury News
BADE, Taiwan - [...]

Hi to all. The newest addition to The Real Taiwan family is here. Aliya Nikita was born on Thursday (October 19th) morning at 1:27 AM. More to come about her soon enough.

Mark Selikoff, AKA Muscle Mark to some has been in a serious motorcycle accident and is still in a coma. You probably have seen him before while flipping through the channels on Taiwanese TV. When you saw him you said, “Hey, that foreigner is on TV speaking Chinese” and if you know Chinese [...]

Chen Shui Bian has proposed changing the name of Chiang Kai-shek International Airport to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. Aside from all of the obvious political BS this will kick up, it is a great idea. I remember thinking I was in Taipei when I arrived. I would propose calling it

Did you know this crazy man spent about 2 months in Taiwan? Probably not, and he was recently arrested in Thailand and admitted to killing Jon Benet Ramsey. Even weirder, he has been acquitted in this case as the evidence shows it was not him. He is currently being brought to California [...]

The pic and article are from the Taipei Times
In an editorial entitled, “Why not call them slaves” found in the Taipei Times, the writer goes off a bit on how foreign workers in Taiwan are treated.

…the council seems to think that foreigners still have it too good, and are rewriting the rules to [...]

Get ready to have your ARC changed. According to the Taipei Times, the 30,000 white Collar and 330,000 blue collar foreign employees will be required to get new ARC cards that have IC chips built into them in order to help prevent the foreigners from commiting crimes. It says it will be at [...]

I’ve been in Taiwan a while, and have forgotten about how much gas is in other countries. I never really paid attention to how much it is here either, just that a refill for my 150 Kymco was about NT200. There was an increase