One thing about living in America is that you quickly learn how necessary coffee can be to get started in the morning and to keep going throughout the day. The only other backup we have from coffee is sugar and sugar doesn't keep you awake for long...

In Taiwan a very popular way of getting lunch is by going to any of several local restaurants and getting take out. A popular Taiwanese restaurant adopted the idea of the Japanese Bento-box which quickly thereafter spread across all of Taiwan. In...

The next stop on our vacation was a town called HuaLien on the coast of east Taiwan. HuaLien could be called a 'surfer' town as that is one of the main things that pulls tourists to this unique city but as I saw it surfing was merely a minor part...

French fries (Freedom fries if you like) and Hash browns, or just plain potato foods are sometimes hard to find in Taiwan. Although french fries certainly gained popularity from western influence, hash browns have yet to make much headway. After...

Every year the Feng Chia () Language Center in Taiwan has a talent show and many of the international students show off whatever it is that they can do. Some people did a skit, others sang a song (in their own language or in Chinese), some people...