May 17, 2009
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D’oh!It’s been two years since I’d last logged into my Flickr account and when I did, there was a message from an Australian travel company requesting permission to use one of my photos for their travel brochure. Obviously, it was way too late to grant that permission… oh well.
Asia Trip – 14th-26th January 2009
Yeah, still at it…
Picture taken with mobile phoneAt Carnegie’s Bar (also one in Hong Kong) watching the inauguration of Barack Obama. A proud American bought champagne for everyone in the bar. Luckily for him it was a slow night, there were only about 12 customers.
Girl band performing in public
All girl dance crew
One of Taipei’s famous restaurants, Din Tai Fung.
“Ticket number 24, your table is ready.”
“Ugh, your ear-grating voice is giving me a headache.”
The staff can speak Japanese and Korean as huge numbers of them flock for the dumplings. The universal English is spoken too.
Chefs preparing and steaming Din Tai Fung’s world famous dumplings.
The famous dumplings. There are Din Tai Fung branches in Japan, China, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia and California. I’d tried the one in Hong Kong but the dumplings do not taste as good as the originals in Taipei.
Chicken soup, dumplings, vegetables…more yet to come.
What a great name for a clothing store.
Ice Monster desserts!
My two favourite foods – fruit and ice cream – what a fantastic combination!
These booths are peppered around the city for you to drop your purchase receipts to enter a draw. The prize money is donated to a charity of your choice.
Wistaria Tea House, a Taipei historical site.
One of the tea rooms
And another.
The first step in brewing tea.
The art of making fine tea…notice no tea bags in sight.
The cups and tea pot need to be cleansed with boiling water after each round to ensure a fuller and uninterrupted flavour.
A dog constructed of mobile phones at Taipei airport.
A dog constructed of green bottles at Taipei airport.
Older Women Are So Reasonable
After being married for 30 years, I took a careful look at my wife one day and said, “Thirty years ago we had a cheap apartment, a cheap car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black and white TV but I got to sleep every night with a hot 25 year-old girl.”
“Now I have a $1,500,000.00 home, a $65,000 car, nice big bed and plasma screen TV but I’m sleeping with a 55 year-old woman. It seems to me that you’re not holding up your side of things.”
My wife is a very reasonable woman. She told me to go out and find a hot 25 year-old girl and she would make sure I would once again be living in a cheap apartment, driving a cheap car, sleeping on a sofa bed and watching a 10 inch black and white TV.
Kid In The Wrong Place
Comments (8)
those desserts look delish!
Yay, be there in a week.
I’ve always wondered, some British co-workers of mine love tea as well, but they love teas brewed from tea bags.
To me, that’s just flavorless colored water.
Do Brits really only have tea from tea bags?
hey, i’ve just come across the bread and butter shop along orchard road in singapore… thought it was an interesting name for a clothing store too!
What kind of mobile are you using? That phone is really clear. And I should visit that tea shop when I visit Taiwan. I LOVE tea!
Ew to the last picture! But YOUR photos are amazing. That tea house is beautiful – I love that. I want to be in the dance troupe. I love how they have matching outfits.
Another gereat trip.
I wonder if the travel agency was going to pay you?
RYC, Yep! I taught English in Taiwan 1993 and 1995-1998. Good old days they were!
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