Last week Tainan City hosted the "International Boat Festival 2009". Tainan City and International in the same title sounds a bit like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? Tainan’s trying. They put up an English website, prepared English flyers and all, but it’s not quite there yet. It would still take a while for Tainan to be [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yedihut Aharonot – Israel’s most popular newspaper – ran a story in December about Taiwan’s education system. The evening I was heading out to Korea, I received a phone-call from the Israeli correspondent for the newspaper in Beijing asking me what I thought of the topic. The story was initiated due to yet another decline [...]

There are some really great English language Taiwan blogs out there, and almost every week I discover another one that’s worth keeping track of. With 2009 just in, I thought I’ll do a special 2008 summary tribute of the top of Taiwan’s expat blogosphere.
I’ll try my best  to do it systematically, using some tools and [...]

It’s absolutely hilarious. Who wrote this list? (found through 草莓起司蛋糕冰淇淋 , and  then noticed it on a number of other blogs like Long。Time。No。See )
Items in bold are true for me.
: 1. You can order the entire McDonald’s menu in Chinese. 你可以用中文點麥當勞的任何餐 : 2. You [...]