taiwan tiger 台灣的老虎: The Nokia is Dead! Long live Ming!

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馬馬虎虎
ma3 ma3 hu1 hu1: ("so-so") a few of my own photos from Taiwan.
deviantART
a sort of visual blog. you'll feel deep afterwards.

second city specifics

The Lowdown in K-Town
BB format listing, including some charming homemade maps to things you need
Access Kaohsiung Community Services
Local information in English! Why did it take me 2 1/2 years to find this?!!
Central Weather Bureau Web Site
weather, typhoon tracking, maritime conditions, and earthquake reporting, all in English
taiwanfun: South magazine
semi-useful site, but ad-supported, so tends to hype up mediocrity
kaohsiung living
extremely useful usergroup for any and all information. Due to number of posts, digest format is highly recommended. Beware of administrator's somewhat dubious agenda.
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other places to go

engrish.com
a site dedicated to collecting english use in japan. taiwan's usage is somewhat similar
Samuel Pepys Diary blog
a fantastic site that chronicles the 1660 Pepys diary. a worthy read.
truthout.org
a site that collects international and alternative and news sources.
get your war on
i read the entire series in one sitting
Formosan Association for Public Affairs
Letters from Peace
Deep End Dining
Adventurous eating. Funny writing.

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2007/5/9

The Nokia is Dead! Long live Ming!

Nah, it didn't last. The Nokia kept sputtering and not responding, and I need to count on it, so I replaced it with a nifty little phone/PDA with a Chinese-English dictionary (which so far seems to be much better than the Nokia's, which had tons of chemical names added as filler, but lacking some standard usage words. Some were just plain wrong, too.). Plus, with the Motorola Ming, you can write in Chinese, either handwritten or with Zhuyin or Pinyin input. Handy. Now don't drop it, Tiger.

I'm working on a few new albums which detail some recent traveling adventures. I hope they will be ready soon!

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Taiwanese Food
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Taiwanese Food

So, this seems kind of crazy, but hey we all love to eat, right? In Taiwan, it's considered a hobby. When you go on a trip, you need to stop at such and such town for their great ______. Noodles, shrimp rolls, chicken thighs, soup, whatever. Everyplace seems famous for some addition to the Taiwanese culinary tradition. So here I am attempting to document some of the traditions of eating, the places to go, and the food itself. This will be a difficult and slow moving project, because I feel really strange photographing food in the presence of other diners, especially when I have to stand on a chair to get it all in.
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