Tag: Taiwanese culture
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Hungry Ghost Month -banishing a troublesome spirit
To mark the start of The Hungry Ghost Month, a tale about a visit to a temple to banish a troublesome ghost.
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Seek and ye shall (not) find
Finding what we need in Taiwan can be a challenge sometimes. Snow flavoured crisps are no problem. Bread and wine are harder.
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I understand! But don’t ask for an omelette
For a tone-deaf foreigner attempting to speak a language with four tones, this was high praise indeed. Speaking Chinese is difficult.
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Why China is not about to invade Taiwan
The risk of China invading Taiwan has been widely reported. It is not as it seems.
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Geek world heaven
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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Swirling, soaking, shuddering and smoking
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
After the church bells of Switzerland, the first sound we noticed in Taiwan was the pleasing and lyrical chime that announces the arrival of the garbage truck each evening.
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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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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.