Religion is a funny old thing in Taiwan. In day to day life you almost don’t see it. There’s the odd temple here and there blended into the landscape and outside of certain religious days/events, there’s no real schedule to attend them or anything. It’s almost as if for most of the Taiwanese, religion is [...]

Eating out in Taiwan by yourself is for the most part cheaper then anything you could cook up at home. Meat is expensive and a lot of the time you’re lucky to even have a kitchen. It’s only when you want to feed a large group of people, such as a family, that the cost [...]

Here in Taiwan, around three times a week the local council sends around two trucks. One is a general garbage truck and one is for collecting recycling. Accompanying these two trucks is an all to familiar ice cream tune they blast out of onboard speaker systems. A sound that, if you stay in Taiwan for [...]

My first experience with death in Taiwan was early one Saturday morning in Taichung. I was woken by what on first impression sounded like an old radio in the distance. As the noise got closer it reached unbearable levels and took on the audible characteristics of a temple on wheels. Eventually it passed and faded [...]

I’m one of those people that thoroughly researches something before committing to buying it. Ask me why I bought something and I’ll usually be able to give you a quick list of what attracted me to the product. Here in Taiwan I’ve started to notice a disturbing trend. The two most common answers I’ve received [...]

After watching some of the various YouTube videos and reading some promising reviews out there for Lobby Hip Hop club I decided it’d be my next night out in Taichung. I’d previously hit up Pig Pen and intended to eventually hit up and write about all three pub/clubs in the immediate area, Pig Pen, Lion [...]

There’s a strong culture amongst Taiwanese girls that cuter is better. This really hits you when one day you find yourself talking to some random girl who’s apparently twenty something, but you feel like you’re staring into the eyes of a twelve year old. And I’m not just talking about looks either. There’s a hell [...]

A few days ago I wrote about Taiwanese girls and lensless glasses, one of the biggest fashion crimes I’ve seen in Taiwan so far. After reading the write up reader Yi left a comment suggesting that perhaps the reason Taiwanese girls were flocking to lensless glasses was for the same reason girls were ‘getting bracers [...]

I’ve kind of given up trying to rationalise the fashion sense of girls in Taiwan. Part of me absolutely loves some of the outfits they come up with but then there’s the cringe worthy stuff too. Don’t get me wrong, the girls are still hot it’s just they appear to have no idea what works [...]

Marriage in Taiwan is like a coin. On one of the many days I had to myself when I first arrived in Taiwan I was exploring my new home on foot. I was walking around Taichung and began to get a strong sense of deja vu. I’d been walking for a few blocks or so [...]