Captain America
Getting ready for Halloween with Captain America…
simplified characters in Taiwan
Not sure why and when people use simplified characters in Taiwan. If it were simply a matter of ease in writing, it would be more prevalent. Here it says 周年庆 instead of 週年慶.
Double Dog Stroller!
Double dog stroller 🙄 Not sure I’ll ever fully understand this…
Lightning Hair
Watching an old school Hong Kong police film at an old school knife noodle shop. In the film, a young, water-skiing Tony Leung gets hit by lightning – and thus his hair is as pictured.
What are you look-ing for?
I was looking for appropriate hyphenation, actually.
蒼蠅頭拌飯 at Kiki’s Noodle Bar
I was starting to feel meh about the noodles at Kiki’s Noodle Bar, but this sure was tasty — and not noodles. 😀 蒼蠅頭拌飯 KiKi麵noodle bar No. 17號, Lane 186, Section 4, Xinyi Road, Da’an District, Taipei City, 106 https://goo.gl/maps/UPbQTT2Zhvs
Wangji Fucheng Zongzi 王記府城肉粽
Not the prettiest looking food, but this place has great 肉粽 and fish ball soup – so good on a rainy day. Wangji Fucheng Zongzi 王記府城肉粽 No. 374號, Section 2, Bade Road, Songshan District, Taipei City, 105 https://goo.gl/maps/gZXhG8oNgYn
Elephant Lin Wang (a.k.a. A-Mei)
I just finished reading The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi a few days ago. I had no idea that the elephant described in the book, Lin Wang, was real — until I ran into him at the zoo today! First used as a war elephant by the Japanese in Burma during WWII, this pachyderm was captured by the Chinese, trekked … Read More
Flower Arrangement on the MRT
Sweet flower arrangement spotted on the red line of the MRT.