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Connecting with the heart of modern Taiwan

For the past 8 years we’ve sought to help people understand the magic that is Taiwan.

We’ve lots to share. Start by delving into our Tales, and then dip into our Taiwan Tips – coming soon.

Tales from Taiwan

  • It wouldn’t happen in Kirkby

    It wouldn’t happen in Kirkby

    Food, Taiwanese culture, Traditions

    After a lunch of dumplings and turnip cake, we pick up some kelp stock and bat-ear mushrooms for dinner. Aye. T’aint Kirkby

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  • Geek world heaven

    Geek world heaven

    Language, Taiwanese culture

    Taiwan is a great place for tech. You can buy the latest electronics as well as bigger gadgets, many not sold elsewhere.

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  • A murder that changed the world

    A murder that changed the world

    Geopolitics, Travel

    How a murder in Taiwan led to the crackdown by Chinese authorities in Hong Kong

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  • Redefining convenience

    Redefining convenience

    Taiwanese culture

    When we explained to a Taiwanese friend that small towns in the UK and Europe don’t have 7-11 convenience stores, she was shocked. “How do people eat?”, she asked.

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  • Non – ce n’est pas un dish cloth

    Non – ce n’est pas un dish cloth

    Taiwanese culture, Traditions

    Arriving somewhere new, it’s normal to find many things that are unfamiliar. But some are totally incomprehensible. Dogs on scooters and dish driers, for example.

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  • Taiwan’s complex geopolitical place in the world

    Taiwan’s complex geopolitical place in the world

    Geopolitics

    Taiwan, for decades a pawn on the geopolitical chessboard, has become something more like a bishop or a knight, a more strategically important piece in the game.

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  • Swirling, soaking, shuddering and smoking

    Swirling, soaking, shuddering and smoking

    Climate, Traditions

    We feel an earthquake every week or so. Then there’s the typhoons, the volcanoes and the rain.

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  • Your spaceship is arriving at platform two. The sounds of Taiwan

    Your spaceship is arriving at platform two. The sounds of Taiwan

    Taiwanese culture, Travel

    After the church bells of Switzerland, the first sound we noticed in Taiwan was the lyrical tune announcing the arrival of the recycling truck each evening.

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  • It’s raining. You need a banana

    It’s raining. You need a banana

    Language, Taiwanese culture

    ‘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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