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Sushi Express: A meditation on love and dating in Taiwan

By: jennalynncody 2018-03-142018-05-29

Guest Column, Voices From Taiwan, 未分類Dadaocheng, Valentine's dayLeave a Comment

Eric Lin was not merely my first Taiwanese friend – we’d actually met on the flight that brought me to Taiwan. He was trying to start a business with his friend based on a design idea they’d come up with in their spare time for better packaging of fragile items, which would enable him to quit his monotonous engineering job. He was great fun to talk to, and I was drawn to his complicated shyness: just awkward enough for it to be apparent, but not enough to stop him from ringing me up to have coffee.

Taiwan Culture Blooms at InBlooom, Taipei’s hippest fabric art shop

By: Taiwan Scene 2018-02-222018-05-30

Voice of influencers, Voices From Taiwan, 未分類Dadaocheng, editor's pick, Inblooom, interviewLeave a Comment

Dadaocheng is a busy neighborhood on most days, especially in the weeks leading up to the Lunar New Year holidays. But even on the busiest days things are usually a bit quieter on two blocks west, which is where you’ll find InBlooom, a shop specializing in both selling print goods and in teaching Taiwanese printing art to locals and visitors alike.

The Living History of Dadaocheng

By: Taiwan Scene 2017-11-152018-05-30

Northern Taiwan, PlacesCulture, Dadaocheng, taipei1 Comment

Modern Taipei is a massive city overlaid by a spider web of intercrossing metro lines on which you can spend 90 minutes getting from one end of town to the other. But Old Taipei, which sprang alongside the eastern bank of the Danshui river, was a smaller place, and much of it fit neatly inside the confines of a city wall, among the last built in the waning days of the Qing dynasty.