Archive for the ‘How to Save Money’ Category
FRESH SEAFOOD – GOOD VALUE RESTAURANT Leave a comment
RESTAURANTS – CLEVER MARKETING Leave a comment
A clever method of encouraging customers to return. A 30% discount voucher (based on what you spent today) can be deducted from your next bill. There is a use-by date. Brother Hotel has FIVE cuisine choices, each with its own kitchen. Nothing like this exists in Australia. Location near Nanjing Road East MRT station, Taipei.
ROOSEVELT AVENUE, (Taipei) Leave a comment
There is a building above every footpath in Taipei. The ground floor has been reserved as a footpath (sidewalk) – a legacy of the Japanese era and of all the Asian cities, unique to Taiwan. Roosevelt is the name of a former US president of course. The USA gave $36 billion in aid to Taiwan [...]
FRUIT IN JULY Leave a comment
Australia exports its top quality fruit – often to Taiwan. Fresh squeezed oranges from California or South Africa as sold near my hotel. The giant mango is yet to be sampled for taste – I doubt if it will compare with Australian mangoes from Bowen, Queensland, known as Kensington Pride and (I think) Bowen Specials. [...]
DANTE COFFEE Leave a comment
Coffee and cake special is AUD$3.20 at current exchange rate. At all Dante shops. An alternative to Starbucks.
TAIWAN – AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR
HISTORIC NORTH GATE TO CITY OF TAIPEI Leave a comment
How many people walked though this gate into the City of Taipei – happy for the security offered within the walled city? How many others have departed full of despair? If the stones could speak. Overhead (almost) is Civic Boulevard which came so close to threatening the existence of this historic structure. North Gate is [...]
IT HAPPENED AGAIN – BANK ATM FAILS Leave a comment
I stick to my rule of only using a bank ATM when the bank is open. Just as well. Upon inserting an internationally recognized credit card in a Taipei city bank, the ATM’s own computer went into a boot mode, the receipt slip was a mass of CAPITAL LETTERS that made no sense. My card [...]
KAOHSIUNG BY NIGHT
This new pizza will be a worry for The Pizza Hut people, less than half price and better tasting. How does a Turkish hotel manager of a 5-star resort come to live in Taiwan and run a street food stall? Location: nearly opposite Kaohsiung Main Station. “I met my wife-to-be about nine years ago” says [...]
CHEAP HOTELS TAIPEI Leave a comment
View from 15th floor Shin Kong Mitsukoshi building, Taipei Main Station (2 November 2010) Reasonably close to the river, this is one old part of Taipei that is changing fast. Those old buildings are rapidly being replaced by tall office buildings. A shame. When arriving in Taipei try to avoid a Friday or Saturday – [...]
