Month: November 2006

Goodbye, again. Can’t wait until the next time.(Jiantan MRT Station, Taipei)

(Off Shipai Rd, Taipei)

(Shipai Night Market, Taipei)

(National Taiwan University, Taipei)

NTU has a really nice campus. It reminds me a lot of Stanford. Not like I would have gotten in there, either.(National Taiwan University, Taipei)

(Off Roosevelt Rd, Taipei)

There is a special place in Heaven for someone in Taipei’s public sign-making bureaucracy. Xie xie!(Near Mingde, Taipei)

I’m dying to bring a Taiwanese scooter back to Brooklyn with me. Unfortunately, Carrefour won’t ship any of these to the States.(Carrefour, Taipei)

Taiwan has many holidays celebrating civil servants, including Doctors’ Day. For one day out of the year, docs can let their hair down and chung ger to a crowd of adoring fans. The white coats stay on, however.(Veterans General Hospital, Taipei)

The Taipei 101 building seems to grow out of the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial on this rainy day.(Sun Yat-Sen Memorial, Taipei)

My grandmother used to make this fatty pork dish for us growing up in NJ. Back then, I’m sure I wished we were eating McDonald’s instead, but now I can’t get enough of it. Ah, youth…(Shipai Road, Taipei)