Lightning Hair

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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.

蒼蠅頭拌飯 at Kiki’s Noodle Bar

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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

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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)

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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

Pizza and Books

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Slowly eating pizza and reading Monkey and ME by Emily Gravett — found in the pile of kid’s books upstairs at Woolloomooloo.

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