Late last year 7-11 kicked up a furore in Taiwan when they teamed up with Taiwanese author Mark Lee to sell merchandise featuring a character based on Hitler. Naturally the Israel embassy weren’t too impressed and after first claiming Hitler’s moustache was a tooth and then claiming that there was no resemblance of Lee’s character [...]

Back in February Taipei’s Mass Rapid Transit System (MRT) welcomed its 5 billionth passenger trip. Opened in 1996 and serving roughly 1.66 million individual trips a day, hitting 5 billion in total trips is a noteworthy milestone. Personally though I try to avoid the MRT as I prefer hitting the roads on the bicycle or [...]

I’d just finished a bicycle ride in one of Taiwan’s 30 degree humid days (although you wouldn’t think so given the horrendous torrential rain we’ve had these last few days), and had pitstopped at 7-11 to grab a bottle of Cherry Coke. Standing at the refrigerator trying to find it on the shelf, it was [...]

Brothels and gambling venues in Taiwan typically share similar storefront traits. You can’t see what’s going on inside and the store windows are usually plastered with cheesy images of gold and jewelry or seductive looking women. With that in mind, we were walking down some street in Banciao District when we passed this rather conspicuous [...]

After departing Wulai Township on the Wulai Log Cart, you’ll find yourself at the Wulai Waterfall Train Station. From here you can get a nice up close and personal view of Wulai Waterfall, browse some of the shops near the station itself or if you’ve had enough of the tourist crowds, head up into the [...]

Despite the ‘WTF WHY DO YOU WANT TO DIE??!’ attitude that exists towards it, I regularly commute around Taipei City on my bicycle. Having lived in cities for most of my life I’m completely comfortable mixing it up with speeding taxis, overbearing buses trying to run you down and crazy scooters who have all the [...]

I was riding along on the scooter the other day when I had to stop and do a double take on a nearby building. ‘Hang on, that looks an awful lot like…’

You don’t get too many proper pasta places here in Taiwan so when I saw Cherry Bubble offering all you can eat pasta dishes I figured I had nothing to do lose by giving them a shot. Situated next to one of our favourite all you can eat hotpot places, ‘Guo da yeh’, even if [...]

The Tian Mu Waterpipe trail starts off at the end of Zongshan North Road Section 7 at the foothills of the Yangmingshang National Park. Starting off with a series of stairs, the Waterpipe trail takes you up into the mountains, levels out for a bit and then dumps you onto a road with a nice [...]

Personally I’ve never really understood the concept of watching porn in a group. To me, it just doesn’t make sense. You sit down, watch for a few minutes, do your thing and then get on with your day right? Watching porn in a group on the otherhand, what’s the point? I mean it’s not like [...]