First thing, around my office there are tons of hole in the wall places that sell betel nut or binlang. It is a stimulant that is mildly addictive, stains your teeth red/black, and mainly chewed by long haul truck drivers. Well half of the sellers are scantily clad young women. To get an idea check out this flickr album: http://flickr.com/photos/tobie_openshaw/sets/72157594581621891/. However, the other half of the sellers are old women, I wonder who does the best business with the male truck drivers?
Also at my office its like kindergarten, there is a designated nap time after lunch. Literally everyone comes back to their cubes and then takes a nap after they eat lunch. The thing here at the office is that everyone speaks Chinese and they speak super fast accented Chinese at that. So I'm still struggling to pick it up (my conversational Chinese is awesome but that's a far cry from a business meeting or office environment). Right now I'm trying to find a place to live here in the city, basically I'll be in a tiny studio and try and live near a subway station so I can get to work really easily. I was also a surprised when I was flipping through the tv channels in my hotel. Most Taiwanese tv is talk show based but at least half of the channels are exclusively devoted to Korea, Japanese, and American programs. There is even one channel that is solely devoted to Japanese porn, I'm definitely not in the U.S. any more.
I had a funny experience this morning. I went to buy a green tea in 7-11. So I found the tea section and saw a bottle with the character for "green" and since I was in a rush I grabbed it and paid. When I drank it, it was unlike any tea I've ever tasted. Then I saw my mistake, had just I bought green asparagus juice. Well, live and learn, next time I'll look at the entire name of the drink before I buy it.
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