Taiwan’s Tourism Bureau has recently announced "The Best Trip in the World" contest hoping for reaction similar to Australia’s “Best Job in the World". Seeing the still weak international interest in Kaohsiung’s World Games 2009 I have some doubts on how popular this would be, but any big project to attract more visitors to [...]
I was a bit surprised the first time I realized that Sun Yat Sen (孫中山, Sun Zhong Shan) is considered to be the founding father of the modern Chinese nation by both China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. From biographies I read about Mao and Chiang Kai Shek, I was led to believe that while Sun [...]
I got a few almost-angry feedback emails from some of my Taiwanese friends on the quick "Taiwan’s Beauty : Top Most Beautiful Taiwanese Girls" that I decided to do a follow up. Instead of me telling you about the gorgeous Taiwanese celebrities that I know I thought I’ll just share with you some of what [...]
Taiwan’s Storyland (台灣故事館, táiwān gùshìguǎn) is a weird combination of a museum, a theme park and restaurant-market, and yet – although probably aimed at the local Taiwanese I thought it was terrific fun. Since everytime I’m in Taipei I stay in a hotel not too far away from Taipei Main Station and the Mitsukoshi building, [...]
Hengchun (恆春鎮, meaning Town of Eternal Spring) received fame last year through Cape no. 7, Taiwan’s highly successful movie set in southern Taiwan. What I was mainly impressed with, is how well the old town of Hengchun is preserved. Built over 130 years ago, Hengchun carries with it a very interesting history of Taiwan.
First, [...]
It’s embarrassing, really. Innocent posts like "Chinese girls are the most beautiful girls in the world” – Israeli music", "China : Sex, Pride and a bit about Israel“, "China : The right to have sex“, and “Is Chinabounder’s "Sex and Shanghai” back?!” drive massive traffic of search engine visitors to this blog as they’re [...]
Taiwan has really amazing events going on. This month Taiwan had Spring Scream 2009, Taiwan’s biggest music festival held in southern Kending, but another interesting festival that didn’t get as much attention, atleast from the expat community, is the 2009 Kaohsiung Song-Jiang Jhen Battle Array in Neimen.
Held at Kaohsiung County’s Neimen township were two weeks [...]
In Taiwan it’s quite popular for young folks to wear very visible crosses on their chests. Long ago, when I first came to Taiwan, I was a bit confused by the whole thing as the typical conversation would go something like this :
Me – I guess you’re Christian, eh?
Them – Why would you think that?
Me [...]
