Tales from Taiwan
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It’s raining. You need a banana
‘A table is not a relationship’, I hear myself saying, a sentence I’m almost certain I’ve never said before.
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You won how much for doing what now?
It took us a long time to work out why shop assistants always looked at us like we were crazy.
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Learn talk not gibberish
In Hong Kong and Singapore we found paying tax was pretty much pain free. Austria was a bit more complicated. Switzerland was the worst. Taiwan was best of all.
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Moving to Taiwan aged us 11 years
It’s not just the date that can be confusing in Taiwan, and which makes everyone seem to be 11 years older. Numbers are different too. Is a 20 ping apartment for 4 wan good?
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Repeat after me: Bu hao yi si
Words and actions are what makes the Taiwanese social machine run smoothly. The use of courtesy umbrellas when it rains is great too.