Taoyuan Nights

[If you are a foreigner working in Taiwan, I strongly encourage you to read this article.]
Like Britain, most of the high street banks in Taiwan pay out effectively nothing on their current accounts, and a pittance on the savings accounts. Current accounts run at 0.1%, and savings accounts often only offer 0.5%.
When I […]

“Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to infiltrate Banqiao under cover of dark and take photographs of confusing items.”
Banqiao is an area in the southwest of Taipei. There seems to be a reasonable amount of building work going on there just now, no doubt partly due to the High Speed Rail terminal […]

Derek Thibault is shocked by riot police and 300 protestors in Taoyuan complaining about the owner of the Idee chain doing a runner with their wages, and brings a Taiwanese woman to tears with his heartfelt busking in Taoyuan. But what song was he playing? The answer may surprise you. My favourite blog entry of […]

I was looking at my statistics today and was stunned to see I’ve reached almost 100 unique readers every day in just 3 or 4 weeks of writing!
Particularly, I was amazed by the number of interesting places that people seem to be reading this blog from.
In America: Los Angeles, San Diego, Irvine, Austin, Kansas […]

In a previous post, I talked about finding authentic food in Taiwan by going to restaurants in industrial areas that are full of foreign workers. I also mentioned a fabulous Thai place that can be found nearby the ‘Benq building’ bus stop on the number 7 route through Guishan in Taoyuan County.

Here’s the name. […]