Showing posts with label Taipei. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taipei. Show all posts
Saturday, 17 April 2010
Saturday, 10 April 2010
An egg with my tea?
Sure, why not? But an egg soaked in black tea, along with soy sauce and spices? Not so much.
It's a common snack here in Taiwan, commonly referred to as the Chinese tea egg. You will find it in every 7/11 you walk into over here. Honestly, the contents don't sound bad at all. I mean it's just tea and spices, with your egg (much easier to digest than some of other food we get around here). It's just the visual effect that puts me off - it almost looks rotten. So it's not for me - but if you are adventurous with food you should surely give it a try when you get the chance.
It's a common snack here in Taiwan, commonly referred to as the Chinese tea egg. You will find it in every 7/11 you walk into over here. Honestly, the contents don't sound bad at all. I mean it's just tea and spices, with your egg (much easier to digest than some of other food we get around here). It's just the visual effect that puts me off - it almost looks rotten. So it's not for me - but if you are adventurous with food you should surely give it a try when you get the chance.
Saturday, 27 February 2010
How ironic would it be if the message said "save electricity" instead?
At first I thought it would be hilariously ironic if the 101 were to state that we need to save electricity. But apparently the building is making an effort to become more "green" (perhaps in an effort to reclaim fame in the form of the 'tallest green building' as it loses the 'tallest building' title)Tuesday, 1 December 2009
NTD 100 for happiness
A few weeks ago I was at the Pinxi township, famous for the lantern festival, and the idea of releasing a sky lantern was very enticing.
The first step in releasing sky lanterns is to pick your colour. Due to a lack of other events in my life, the colour red was most appropriate which is used for celebrations...and in my case (as corny as this) would be for weddings. Other colours you can pick from are white for health (which I can do without for now), orange for wealth (which I could do with but wasn't convinced that the lantern could actually bring any) ... and any colour that you can think of actually.
The next step is to make a wish. I didn't really want to make a wish but it seemed like I wasn't making any sense to the people around me coz - 'why would u buy a sky lantern if you didn't want to make a wish??'. So I made a wish for happiness. (Now, 'happiness' is a very broad term and I would've been more specific but I didn't want everyone reading my real wish. :P )
So here I am with my 'wish lantern' (which has some very ugly art on it). It probably would've been more fun if I were doing this at night where you could see the glow in the lantern...but too bad that I had to get back home.
And there it goes. All for a 100 NT.
The first step in releasing sky lanterns is to pick your colour. Due to a lack of other events in my life, the colour red was most appropriate which is used for celebrations...and in my case (as corny as this) would be for weddings. Other colours you can pick from are white for health (which I can do without for now), orange for wealth (which I could do with but wasn't convinced that the lantern could actually bring any) ... and any colour that you can think of actually.
The next step is to make a wish. I didn't really want to make a wish but it seemed like I wasn't making any sense to the people around me coz - 'why would u buy a sky lantern if you didn't want to make a wish??'. So I made a wish for happiness. (Now, 'happiness' is a very broad term and I would've been more specific but I didn't want everyone reading my real wish. :P )
So here I am with my 'wish lantern' (which has some very ugly art on it). It probably would've been more fun if I were doing this at night where you could see the glow in the lantern...but too bad that I had to get back home.
And there it goes. All for a 100 NT.
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