LONELY PLANET have published their 8th guide to Taiwan, so I picked up a copy and began checking for errors. (More on that later in the month). The book is over-priced yet essential for first-time visitors. A good starting point. A lot of work involved in the compilation. Taipei MRT rail stations have free maps [...]
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LATEST TAIWAN TRAVEL INFO Leave a comment
NIGHT MARKET JUICE BAR Leave a comment
At Kaohsiung – the same place as featured in the new-design masthead above. With a new ‘theme’ as well we can now present much larger pictures, (although before most pictures could be enlarged with a click or two).
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 [...]
JUICE and WHAT AUSTRALIAN’S KNOW ABOUT TAIWAN Leave a comment
Kiwi fruit and orange juice. I see a young girl peeling kiwi fruit for hours every day in a big department store at Zhongshan. Is there a machine that peels kiwi fruit? Kiwi fruit were once known (in Australia) as Chinese Gooseberries. An advertising campaign originating from New Zealand successfully changed the name. Kiwi [...]
CHINA PIZZA Leave a comment
Double click to enlarge picture Near exits Z5 or Z6 on the very south of the mall. There’s a You Tube video of this tiny shop somewhere. We’ll include it here later. (Click your ‘reload’ or ‘refresh’ on your browser). NT $40 is a lot better than NT $450 for a Pizza Hut version – [...]
SWEET STRAWBERRIES Leave a comment
ABALONE SEARCH IN TAIPEI Leave a comment
Many Australian divers went professional abalone diving in the 1960′s – before licenses and regulations. I was one of them. The price we were paid for fresh abalone, in adjusted values is about 50 times less than what the professional divers are paid today. Today’s licensed divers have a lot of overheads. A $5 to [...]
CORN ON THE COB
A common street food product. I’m beginning to prefer it au natural. Raw sweet corn sold in Australian supermarkets to cook-at-home is a new variety – very sweet and if anything, sickly. It’s nothing like what I remember as a kid in the country. Maybe we were roasting maize for stock feed? Anyway, the corn [...]
SWEET POTATO GREENS
Apparently this is traditional Taiwanese dish. The garlic extra was a nice touch.
