Next stop on this photo tour is Taipei. I've commented as many as the photos as I could.
Taipei, the city itself at least, is very modern. Too modern in some ways. But in almost every corner of the city you will find the ubiquitous night-markets, or "yie-shi." These act not only as one of the primary forms of entertainment for people, but a functional place to get cheap goods as well. Many food carts will sell you a dinner's worth of noodles, buns, fried meats, or red-bean dessert for a measly buck or two, and you can get a satay kabob or fish balls for just $0.25. I didn't find the living costs overall to be that much different than the U.S. when adjusted for income, but snacks like these were undoubtably in their own caste of bargaindom.
Before I went, Bob warned me. There are "no hot chicks" he said, and those words gave me drive to prove him wrong. I can say that for Taipei at least, he was dead right. My theory, I later elucidated to him, was that the food there was so toxic, and the student's life preparing for their brutal exams was so stressful, and the air was so corrosive, that every girl there was obliged to wear layers of make-up capable of combatting bio-terrorism. Add to that their penchant for superficially copying the gaudy dress style of their Japanese counterparts, and you had a patentable formula for bad taste, bad fashion, bad looks. I'll post up pics of Xi Men Ding later, but where the college students were, things got a bit better, and I attribute that to college life being a relative cakewalk. Relative to high school I mean. Xstine's still has agonizing nightmares of cramming 12 hours a day for entrance exams.
But what really surprised me were the guys. Donning ambigusexually teased "Jap-rock" mullets and carrying women's coach bags to match the ever-fashionable and ever-present Verizon guy glasses, they were a force powerful enough to reinforce the emasculate male stereotype for asian dudes across the globe. Taizhong, which is a major city in central Taiwan, had much beefier guys with denim and T's, buzzcuts and attitude, and generally looked much better. Taipei, however, was damned.
But enough with criticisms. There will time for more later… hahaha… I've got to say that Taipei changed alot since I last went, eight years ago. The stores brim with service, to the point that I became uncomfortable when forced for sake of sanity to ignore greetings and hello-come-try-our-snacks' every five minutes. Every storekeeper was a veritable rainbow under the constant Formosan rain. And the people themselves, when face-to-face and not driving like assholes, are incredible friendly. Many many times did they eavesdrop on our distress and help point the way to the next attraction our confused expressions graciously accepted. American like to think we are a friendly people. I think we are too busy thinking we are, and altogether not in constant surveillance for silly lost tourists.
Most memorably, I had bowl after bowl of beef noodle soup, a Taiwanese delicacy. I plan to write a who's who book of best beef noodle soup places in Taiwan, and will be the emminent beefnoodologist of greater Pacifica. Even with the sly heat sabotaging every "gloomy" day and wrecking the crust of Axe deodorant I was swathed in, I had no fear plunging into the perils of beefy gluttony. Here, for just $3, was the soul of Taipei, and it was addicting.
Anonymous writes:
LOL. There are no hot chicks in Taiwan, at least compared to Japan. This is not because of exams, but because there is no sensual body in Chinese culture, no body that is aware of itself as a physical and sexual object. Chinese do not do normally engage in sports, except for the recent introduction of basketball, and most activities are passive. They do not dance — they are not physical like westerners or africans, touching each other and talking with their hands. Taiwanese boys hate girls with sexual power, and so the girls shape themselves to that ideal — they wear pink, refuse to grow muscles, and generally dress asexually, looking "cute" — infantile. Because Chinese culture is an honor-shame culture where fathers are distant and boys are raised by their mothers, women have only two roles, Mother and Whore. Hence in Taiwan "hot" = "slutty" which is generally boring. Yawn.
I'm glad you enjoyed your trip, though. Taichung is better for living, but I always thought Taipei had better girls. Anyway, with all that delicious food, who cares about the girls?
Michael
http://michaelturton.blogspot.com
Thanks for the insight Michael, do you reside in Taiwan atm? Love your photos.
On the return trip, we definitely plan to hit up Taichung again- the measly three hours we spent there was disappointing. It might just be personal preference, but the girls in Taipei with anorexic legs and what you call an "infantile" look certainly don't jive with this Texas-born ABC's preference for tall blondes and spunky brunettes, much to my fiance's dismay. But the sexuality point you make is interesting because it's true, yet contradictorily there was an amazing amount of risque imagery in billboards, ads, and magazines.
tomcat writes:
OH MY WORD. Taipei has the highest ratio of GORGEOUS girls in Asia !! bAR none. YOu guys just aint been looking hard enough eh?
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