If you take New York City’s Chinatown, and I am talking about the REAL Chinatown in flushing not the manhattan one, and spread it out to take up all of New York city and then multiply it’s size by two or maybe four then you would almost have an idea of what Taipei is like. But what you will not find in New York is the fast fast fast pace of Taipei. Taipei is like New York City on Speed. what? you say new york is already crazy fast paced? come to Taipei and you will understand my friend. The streets look like one huge accident waiting to happen. You have busses all over the place, hundreds of thousands of scooters zipping around and weaving in and out of cars, plus all the normal traffic, and to top it all off lots of crazy J-walking. I love it.
The one sour spot about this city is that the myths about dirt cheap electronics are completely 100% FALSE. The prices are slightly lower than in the US but nothing to write home about. But there is a really cool 6 story building totally dedicated to selling electronics and tech services. This place is really cool for technophiles like myself to walk around and just take things in, but as I said the prices are not that great. The prices are good but not dirt cheap.
What is dirt cheap though is the food. If you know where to go you can get a complete meal for 2 people for about 100 New Taiwan Dollars (3 US Dollars). That is cool but I would rather starve and get dirt cheap electronics than vice versa. But what can you do? I say that you can cry about it.
And finally there is the public transit system. Their public transit system is far better than anything we have out in Los Angeles and from my experience in New York it is far better than there also. The Subway system is 100% climate controlled and doesn’t look like it was built in the 19th century. The bus system though is pretty equivalent to what is in New York. The only problem is that if you cannot read chinese characters you are pretty much assed out with the bus system because all of the signs are in, you guessed it, traditional chinese characters!!
Anywho when all is said and done Taipei is great you should come here.
Post pictures of yourself eating animals that would otherwise be illegal (or unethical) to consume in the states.
Some suggestions:
Dogs
Cats
Horses
Whales
Bears (if they’re on the island)
Stuff that walks
hmm I had too think hard on whether or not to approve paul’s oddball comment but hey what the hell. and no thanks on the eating things that walk.
where are the pictures at? you should set up a gallery with captions.
wow, i can’t believe taipei is more fast paced than new york. i assume it smells better? ps. i didn’t know technophile was a word. haha