Tag: Taipei

  • Taiwan Food – A Scavenger Hunt

    Taiwan Food – A Scavenger Hunt

    A lot of great food in Taiwan is pretty inexpensive. Therefore, I propose a Pokemon approach and try to catch ’em all. Here is a list for a scavenger hunt, send in your pics, and share what you’d add to this list!

  • 5 Tips to Get Around Taipei

    5 Tips to Get Around Taipei

    5 Things to Know About Getting Around Taipei – It is SO easy to get around! ..once you take a few steps to get going. Here are a few tips I learned from my trip there.

  • Taiwan Adventures – Going “Home” Part 2

    Taiwan Adventures – Going “Home” Part 2

     Recap of What I Expected to Find in Taiwan: (see Taiwan Adventures – Going Home 1 for the full intro) -Familiar but unfamiliar: being too-rusty in language skills, feeling a stranger in a friendly city -Pollution galore What did I find? Arrival Aah, that southern Chinese accent! Familiar, just …familiar.I walked off the plane to…

  • Going Home  Taiwan Adventures 1

    Going Home
    Taiwan Adventures 1

    Dear reader, I’m trying something different this time with the writing. Let me know how it goes. Thanks! Y Belonging is a funny thing. As an Asian American kid growing up in Minnesota, I just wanted to be like everyone else I knew. My mother (born in Taiwan) persistently spoke to me in Chinese despite…