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Most family marts have the lovely grape and orange slupree things in the summer that take the place of the sweet potato rocks.
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id fight a taxi driver to get some icees here, i know asia has them
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Mar 30, 2015 06:07
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Slurpees have been replaced by delicious soft serve ice cream
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Mar 30, 2015 06:21
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Haha Taiwan plebs enjoy your clean air and relative free press, I'll continue paying for poo poo at 7-11 and from vending machines with my cell phone. I don't even remember what cash is!!!
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I was about to say, Slurpees are old and busted, soft serve is the new hotness. For a couple more months tops.
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Magna Kaser posted:Haha Taiwan plebs enjoy your clean air and relative free press, I'll continue paying for poo poo at 7-11 and from vending machines with my cell phone. You can easily pay for poo poo at sev with your cell phone. You just can't pay with your grandpa's swipe credit card.
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I'm not saying I'd pay for a $1 drink with my credit card. I'm saying it's just wacky the lengths it seems Taiwanese folks go to not use credit cards. Like I just spent thirty bucks at a Starbucks and the barista made this grand show of getting out this dusty machine to take my card. I've been to Eastern Europe and they don't blink an eye!
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Insane Totoro posted:I'm not saying I'd pay for a $1 drink with my credit card. I'm saying it's just wacky the lengths it seems Taiwanese folks go to not use credit cards. Right because Eastern Europe still lives in an era where people use swipe credit cards to pay for things. Get a modern credit card, an easy card, or pay with cash.
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Insane Totoro posted:I just spent thirty bucks at a Starbucks 
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coffee tawk: try finding a cama cafe, they own
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Cama is def. legit.Insane Totoro posted:I'm not saying I'd pay for a $1 drink with my credit card. I'm saying it's just wacky the lengths it seems Taiwanese folks go to not use credit cards. I mean, it's important to bear in mind that despite being a hub of the tech industry, a massive amount of urban Taiwan was literal farmland within living memory. sub supau fucked around with this message at 09:52 on Mar 30, 2015 |
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Mar 30, 2015 09:44
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I'm coming to Taiwan, but before I do I'm going to get a McFlurry.
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Lady Galaga posted:I'm coming to Taiwan, but before I do I'm going to get a McFlurry. Your gay.
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^Got hella milk tea McFlurrys in Taiwan! My undergrad advisor studied in Taiwan back when the ROC was still in the UN and everything. I asked if they had the subway back then, he said the road next to NTU was literally a gutter and just a bit further away were oxen walking around. I also love this video and how incredibly uncomfortable this dude is (and how standard his mandarin  )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFPzEMSu1o8
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hitension posted:My undergrad advisor studied in Taiwan back when the ROC was still in the UN and everything. I asked if they had the subway back then, he said the road next to NTU was literally a gutter and just a bit further away were oxen walking around. I also remember reading a website by a guy who was stationed in Taiwan with the US Army in the 1960s, near "a small town a few miles north of Taipei" - Shilin.
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Lady Galaga posted:I'm coming to Taiwan, but before I do I'm going to get a McFlurry. They're here too, though no Butterfingers here(  ) and mcflurrys are inferior blizzards anyway. TetsuoTW posted:I met a couple of guys on the way to Computex years ago who said basically the same thing about Xinyi in the 1980s. They hadn't been back in the better part of 20 years and were blown away by what had transpired in the interim. My dad visited taiwan a long time ago and always tells me "I remember it was still a bunch of dirt roads" (I believe he was talking about Taipei at the time)
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duckfarts posted:They're here too, though no Butterfingers here(
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TetsuoTW posted:You know there are a couple of DQs around Taipei now right? And cheap dentists.
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duckfarts posted:coffee tawk: try finding a cama cafe, they own Srsly one of these just opened in Taoyuan a couple of months ago and I always wondered if it was worth my hard earned cash so thanks for the recommendation. Edit: My grandfather worked for a shipping company in the 70s and 80s and he was in Taichung a bunch. He has a lot of great stories from the era under martial law. They were not allowed to make phone calls back to the states without a military guard monitoring the phone call, though my grandfather says the minders never spoke English at all and it was fun to see how inflammatory the language could get without their minder even batting an eye. POCKET CHOMP fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Mar 30, 2015 |
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TetsuoTW posted:You know there are a couple of DQs around Taipei now right? Really? I went to Beijing last week and I was very happy to get DQ there. I don't know how well they would do here because other ice cream shop proliferation is complete.
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GoutPatrol posted:Really? I went to Beijing last week and I was very happy to get DQ there. I don't know how well they would do here because other ice cream shop proliferation is complete. DQ is quickly becoming like KFC and Pizza Hut in that there are a hell of a lot more of them in China than anywhere else. I pass 3 DQs on my way to work every morning, and that's only a 20 minute walk. I also haven't been to one in 2 years, so it has that similarity with KFC as well.
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DQ had at least 500 stores in China as of a few years ago, must be a bunch more now. When I was in Wuhan a couple months ago I hit one up and it was tasty, top quality stuff. The location I was at only served dessert, absolutely no burgers or fries or anything else which I think is the norm for the China branches and frankly isn't a loss.
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Mar 30, 2015 16:35
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GoutPatrol posted:Really? I went to Beijing last week and I was very happy to get DQ there. I don't know how well they would do here because other ice cream shop proliferation is complete.
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The unfortunate thing about the DQs in Taipei is that they only serve ice cream which is like the thing I want from a DQ least. Get me some of those chicken strips and gravy, and those delicious seasoned fries, and the bacon double cheesburger...oh I guess they changed their menu. Man I miss DQ from like 10 years ago. Speaking of fast food, every time I go to Singapore now I have to hit Wendy's. drat, I miss Wendy's too.
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TetsuoTW posted:You know there are a couple of DQs around Taipei now right? I know there's a Gongguan one which is unfortunately out of the way for me, and a Tianmu one and Tianmu is out of the way for everybody. I haven't been jonesing to go that bad though since I saw their menu and there were no reese's pieces or butterfingers for blizzard options. 
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Dairy queen pulled out of Hong Kong during the 90s. If only there's more Krispy kreme in China and Taiwan
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duckfarts posted:I know there's a Gongguan one which is unfortunately out of the way for me, and a Tianmu one and Tianmu is out of the way for everybody. I haven't been jonesing to go that bad though since I saw their menu and there were no reese's pieces or butterfingers for blizzard options. There's one in the new Breeze department store over in HsinYi.
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PaybackJack posted:Speaking of fast food, every time I go to Singapore now I have to hit Wendy's. Shameful.
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fart simpson posted:Shameful. They have the best nuggets though. The best.
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caberham posted:If only there's more Krispy kreme in China and Taiwan
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caberham posted:Dairy queen pulled out of Hong Kong during the 90s. If only there's more Krispy kreme in China and Taiwan Dunkin donuts supremacy
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Magna Kaser posted:Dunkin donuts supremacy Empty quote.
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Magna Kaser posted:donutes supremacy even though the people there can't understand my broken chinese for poo poo You know I'm saying almond
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Anyone know of any music stores that sell trad. Chinese instruments instead of just drat ukeleles and cellos? Because I've decided that this is the coolest drat thing ever and I want one now.
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quadrophrenic posted:Anyone know of any music stores that sell trad. Chinese instruments instead of just drat ukeleles and cellos? P sure that is just a mouth harp and you can buy it in many countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew%27s_harp
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khysanth posted:P sure that is just a mouth harp and you can buy it in many countries: 口弦 : Jew's Harp :: xylophone : timpani  I already have a Jew's harp. This thing is way cooler. It's tuned man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yC3IUW_lUY
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Nah if you wanna get hella obscure with your instruments you gotta get an Atayal mouth-harp (lubuw) 
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I guess no-one will pursue Lubuw. Zipline posted:I'll do some digging around on those mentioned locations, sounds neat. And yeah, I'd love a list of strange Chinese museums, could make for a fun visit. * Dahu Strawberry Museum, No. 2-4, Baliaowan, Fuxing Village, Dahu Township, Miaoli County * Beneficial Microbes Museum and Tourism Factory, No. 22, Meizhou 1st Rd., Yilan City * Guqifeng, No. 66, Lane 306, Gaofeng Rd., Hsinchu City * ChiHsin Dry Bonito Museum/Chihsingtan Katsuo Museum, No. 148, Qixing St., Dahan Village, Xincheng Township, Hualien County * Tengfeng Fish Ball Museum, No.117, Zhongzheng Rd., Tamsui District, New Taipei City
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I think I've experienced peak scooter driver the other day. Old man, blazes through one stop light on a ratty 50cc scooter, weaves through the crowd and stops shy of traffic at the next red light, driving with one hand, holding a cig in the other. When he comes to a stop he takes a drag, pulls out a cell phone with his right hand and puts a plug of betel nut in his mouth with his left and starts texting someone. Basic soup bowl helmet, with the straps not connected. A part of me can't help but to be left in awe at the sight of a man who truly doesn't give a poo poo about anything. Also, did one of you assholes move down here to Chiayi without saying anything? Just saw a guy at FamilyMart that could've been Fat Bastard's body double, and was possibly the most goony looking expat I've seen yet.
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