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Culture: Daytime Soap Plot
Who says soaps don’t give you an insight into local culture. Of course, there were soaps aimed at different demographics, but your afternoon or early evening ones aimed at the housewife/mother-in-law market always had the same plot: Bossy mother-in-law who is constantly worried about how much money her son is earning, and disappointed by the [...]
Gardening Therapy
Tainan is very crowded, very urban, and almost totally paved over. There are trees and parks, but few people work with the soil other than in flower pots. A few years ago Tainan Theological College gave several people from the neighborhood the freedom to garden on the campus. Flowers now blossom all around us. One [...]
Taiwanese end of the year party (wei ya)
The end of the year party is a very big deal for business in Taiwan. I personally haven’t been to one, but I have observed the police are out in full force looking for drunk drivers a lot during this part of the holiday season. I found a short video showing what can happen at [...]
Taiwan Kite Flying
In Anping Tainan, the winds near the beach can often be nice for kite flying. I was out one day and made a short video of a man doing some extreme kiting. He was being dragged a bit at points, and was maneuvering his kite around the sky like it was a soaring Eagle. The [...]
CC Lemon Song By Fahrenheit 飛輪海
This post covers two subjects at once. Everyone in Taiwan knows how infectious the jingle for the soft drink CC Lemon has become. If you are anywhere in the country it’s likely if you start off the CC, anyone nearby will finish with the lemon.] CC Lemon is a Japanese soft drink, basically a sweet [...]
Taiwanese Rare Food: Bull Tackle
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 [...]
Spring Scream Air Guitar Contest
Hey this was fun. It’s a good thing it was at 3am because, the next day, a lot of people wished they never made it on stage. Thanks to Novia for supplying me some contestants that I never recorded. If you have anymore stuff that I missed, send it to me so I can edit [...]
