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Taiwan Culinary Tour Day Three: Buried Chicken and Betel Nut
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 5 February 2012
Photo by Mark A. ThompsonFlesh falls from the bones of several large chickens freshly pulled from the covered pit in which they’d been cooking.
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Taroko Gorge - We Came. We Saw. We Took Photos
Blog: Travel Adventures of Newman - 22 January 2012
Eternal Springs shrineThough not averse to guided bus tours, the 6am scheduled pickup at our hotel seemed daunting, as well as the whole day itinerary that would see us arriving back in Taipei around dinner time.
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Rob Schneider ♥s Taiwan
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 10 January 2012
“Jia ba bei?” Rob Schneider is a dude with some serious love for Taiwan. Ascending the stage at a press conference hosted by the Taiwan Tourism Bureau to promote the island at a hotel in Universal City, the SNL alumni, film star and di
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Lonely Planet's Best in Travel names Taiwan
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 1 November 2011
Just a quick shout out to my peeps at Lonely Planet for naming Taiwan one of their top 10 countries for 2012, and to my people in Taiwan for being named.I was going to use the phrase "making the list," which in most cases would be more appropriate. However, for Taiwan, the idea of being named has special meaning.I need to cut this entry short and explore LA by Bicycle. Many pictures to share soon. Please enjoy this video from Kou Chou Ching entitled "Your Name is Taiwan".
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Death Metal, Vernacular And Tradition: The Music Scene In Taiwan
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 13 October 2011
Image: Kou Chou Ching Performing at Spring Scream FestivalExhaustion...nearly at the end of my screenplay, heading to LA in two weeks as an Alumni for the 2011 Getty Fellowship (more about that in a future post.
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Westin Taipei — Not a hotel I will recommend going forward….read why below
Blog: Travel China and the World - 25 September 2011
I published this review also on TripAdvisor.com but wanted to include it on my blog as well for those of you who read one or the other…. So here we go — Last week I had the next opportunity to … Continue reading →
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Send No Money Now!
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 21 September 2011
I was just reminded that today marks the 12th anniversary of the day Taiwanese refer to simply as "Jiǔ'èryī", or "9/21" - the day a major earthquake hit Taiwan, killing over 2000 people. I've been so focused on writing about Taiwan for travel (just finished two articles on Taiwan for Lonely Planet / BBC) and focusing on an upcoming interview with NPR (That's National Public Radio for readers outside of the USA...the interview concerns Taiwanese identity on the eve of another anniversary, arguably one whose relevance to Taiwan is, well, less arguable - the 100th anniversary of Su
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Testing a new plugin for Photo Albums — well, it works! See it below
Blog: Travel China and the World - 3 September 2011
Now some modern photos from Taiwan I will add more to this album — stay tuned this weekend
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The Weekly Photo: Chiang Kai-shek Memorial
Blog: Nomadic Matt's Travel Site - 7 August 2011
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Gate, Taipei, Taiwan ©Nomadic Matt's Travel Site. Want to save OVER $700 USD on your next trip? Get Free Travel Coupons with my guide to traveling the world. Related Travel ArticlesThe Weekly Photo: A Panda WeddingThe Weekly Photo: TaipeiThe Saturday City: TaipeiVisiting Taipei 101The Weekly Photo: Japan’s Imperial Palace
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Six Weeks in Taipei
Blog: Flying Coach - 13 July 2011
It has been quite some time since we updated our blog with travel notes. Sara and I have spent the last six weeks or so in Taipei, Taiwan where our younger daughter was going to school to learn Chinese. We had lots of local adventures, but also worked on a few projects quite a bit, [...]
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7 Essential OTC Medications to Carry When Traveling
Blog: Flying Coach - 26 April 2011
I am a big fan of natural medicine and have more than once found that a natural form of medicine has healed me permanently where the traditional Western doctors could only dull my pain. That being said, everything has its place and when you are traveling, you want to get out and see things, not [...]
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Visit to the Bunun community of Kalibuan
Blog: David on Formosa - 15 March 2011
Over the weekend I visited the Bunun community of Kalibuan (Wangxiang, 望鄉部落) with a group of students from Providence University and National Chengchi University. The first stop on the way was a small museum in Xinyi Township of Nantou County. The museum contains a range of materials related to Bunun culture. The picture above shows [...]
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No One is Sleeping
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 15 March 2011
Crickets and Geckos are competing chirps, and the moon is squeezing through narrow metal slats. I could close them, but why bother? No One is Sleeping, not in the village, not on the Peninsula, maybe not in the world, great parts of which are preparing for the cutting room floor. Why should I sleep? Dogs are grumbling, and people with them. This is not a quiet night, even though the wind refuses to howl.
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eGuidebooks: A Review
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 13 December 2010
In the weeks leading up to my trip to Taiwan, our paper copy of the Taiwan Lonely Planet was lost in the mail. And no Beijing bookstore carries it, probably because it doesn’t lump Taiwan in with the rest of China.
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Shilin night market, Taipei, Taiwan
Blog: An American in London - 7 December 2010
Night markets are a feature of many Southeast-Asian cities (well, definitely cities with large Chinese populations, anyway), and while I appreciate the beauties of a sunny daytime market in, say, France and Italy, in my opinion, night markets are the best of the market genre. First, they’re practical. When you’re in a hot, tropic climate, [...]
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A Little Food…Tasty Street Eats in Taipei, Taiwan
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 6 December 2010
My 15 hour long layover in Taipei may not have been enough time to settle in and truly explore all that Taipei, Taiwan has to offer but it’s plenty enough time to eat! There were moments where the Asian culture shock was creeping up but the familiar pace of a city extinguished a lot of the potential angst. Instead of focusing on being lost throughout the day I followed my nose along the streets of Taipei, allowing the locals on their lunch breaks to dodge around me as I poked my ...
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A Little Tip…A Marathon 15 hr Layover in Taipei
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 3 December 2010
My fifteen hour layover in Taipei, Taiwan was long…fifteen hours in a city is that in-between length of time. Perhaps not long enough to really justify renting a hotel room but an exhausting marathon of site-seeing without a resting spot. And though my Taipei layover was way longer than I would normally choose, I had little choice in the matter so I embraced the craziness of filling that much time without a home-base and explored the city on the three recommendations from my Taiwanese friend Ben (met him in Belize actually!). Three ...
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Restaurants and Dining Out in Taipei, Taiwan
Blog: An American in London - 1 December 2010
Happy (belated) Thanksgiving to all my American readers! I trust you all gave thanks, over-ate and over-shopped. It’s been exactly a week since I’ve returned to London after having spent 9 days in Taiwan and 3 days in Hong Kong. I’m still jetlagged beyond belief, which is yet another annoying sign that I’m getting old. [...]
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A Taiwanese Complete Breakfast
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 30 November 2010
I wasn’t sure what to expect food-wise when I arrived in Taiwan. I knew whatever we found would be delicious — but what would we find? I’ve already regaled you with our day of eating in Tainan, but I left out the most intriguing part — breakfast!
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Sushi Revolution!
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 28 November 2010
In Taiwan I ate a lot at a chain sushi place called Sushi Express. Decent Sushi for NT30 a plate - less than a buck US. During the frenzied final write-up weeks for Taiwan 8 I basically took half my meals at the Sushi Express at the bottom of the hill in Beitou where I was living, so if I never eat at one again it'll be too soon. Anyway, during one visit with my family, I got the idea of putting a flip cam into a tea-cup and setting it adrift on the conveyor belt. This is an edit of the film from said momentous occasion.
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Din Tai Fung and Kao Chi, xiao long bao in Taipei, Taiwan
Blog: An American in London - 22 November 2010
First, you spot the crowds on the sidewalk. Then you spot the xiao long bao cartoon character. This is Din Tai Fung. Last week, as part of a 9-day trip eating my way through Taiwan, I visited the original Taipei location of what can only be called a xiao long bao empire. The place is [...]
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Faces of Taiwan
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 20 November 2010
Cold Saturday afternoon in Colorado and a call for submissions to a photography competition in Taiwan takes me briefly far away to warmer, wetter climes. Despite the cold and poor choice of seafood I am happy here in my chilly cottage, gas heater at my back only raising temperature incrementally. In a few weeks, off to Olympia, and not long after that, Belize.These are photos taken at different points during my last 3 months in Taiwan, all with the Canon DSLR with various lenses. The submission called for ten, so I culled six of the ones in this slideshow.
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A Tainan Feast (Or Two… Or Three)
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 16 November 2010
In Tainan, our last stop in Taiwan, we had the luckiest break of our trip: My roommate’s dad’s coworker’s brother (convoluted much?) is a Tainan native and quite a foodie, and he gave us an amazing 24-hour tour of the city’s cuisine.
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Snapshot: Longshan Temple
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 12 November 2010
Taiwan has turned out to be the perfect destination for someone who is rather “temple-d out,” at least as far as mainland China goes. The architecture and atmosphere of the temples I’ve visited here are completely different from your average Chinese temple.
