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Eating in a local fries joint: Tamsui

I’m reluctant to name the restaurant because I don’t want to get sued by their boss, who probably cares more about his finances than his customers. Let me tell you it is named after one European country’s most favored vegetable! Can’t really recommend this fast food joint for the following reasons on the day we were there, if… Read More »

Local universities = high schools again?

Last week’s entrance exams here in Taiwan were quite challenging fir local students. One of the Chinese Literature questions went “Challenge yourself to improve”. I thought it was a decent question but many students would have been pressed to answer such a question in any detail. Yet if you are applying to colleges in the US, entrance applications… Read More »