The aboriginal community in Taiwan is one of the most fascinating things about Taiwan. It holds the promise of culturally distinct local cultures with their own language, customs and life, living an old-fashioned traditional island life, unhurt by modernity. But, when it comes to tourism, Aboriginals are a money making machine. They bring in the [...]

Want more Cosplay? Here’s more Cosplaying photos for you. This is the second post of photos from the Dating @UST 2010 Cosplay event held at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Cosplayers arrived from all over Hong Kong to take part in the Cosplay event and show off their Cosplaying outfits. Enjoy.   [...]

You gotta love Asia. Personally, I can’t get enough of Cosplay. To my foreign eyes, it offers endless cultural observations with a blend of exotic and kinky flavors. Hong Kong University of Science and Techonology’s Comics and Animation society arranged the annual Cosplay event of Dating @UST, inviting the local Hong Kong cosplayers to show [...]

Chinese sure know how to pull off quirky tourist traps, and The Bund Tourist Sightseeing Tunnel is the perfect example. Why anyone would think that an attraction of crossing from The Bund side of the Huangpo river to the new Pudong area through an underwater tunnel of epileptic lights a good idea is beyond me.  [...]

Confucian temples are usually not as exciting as Daoist folk temples, but there is something unique about them that offers a special appeal. Shanghai’s Confucius Temple (上海文廟), though a bit off the tourist beaten track and despite not looking like much from the outside, is a good example of that. Here’s a bit about the [...]

There are times when you can’t help but think – there is some good in Colonialism, atleast architecture wise. What would Shanghai do without those beautiful European style buildings on The Bund, Xintian Di, Taikang Rd. or the French Concession? It might be my “western" perspective” making me sound a bit like an a$$, but [...]

One of Shanghai’s most recognizable symbols is the skyline of the new Pudong skyscrapers from the boardwalk on the Bund side. It is indeed quite a sight, though still pale in comparison to the long & shiny Hong Kong skyline. Best time, I would say, to go enjoy that view is during the evening time, [...]

More food, this time from the Shanghai visit. In Shanghai I visited quite a few restaurants representing different parts of China and had my fair share of surprises when it comes to diversity of tastes and levels of spicy (which I do not handle that well).   Of all the restaurants I found two worth [...]