Today officially marked the last day of the 2017 Summer Universiade, aka the Taipei 2017 Universiade, an Olympics-lite event organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation. This was the biggest sporting event Taipei has ever hosted, and they pulled out all the stops. Although tickets to all events were sold out by […]
Month: August 2017
Jin Feng Lu Rou Fan (金峰魯肉飯) or Braised Pork Rice
Aaah, pure porky goodness, and one of the dishes Taiwan is best known for. Pork belly braised in a multi-spiced soy sauce concoction, chopped up and poured over rice with the braising sauce is my idea of comfort food. It was purely by luck that Philip and I discovered this little place, Jin Feng Lu […]
Idle Hands…
The saying, “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop,” popped into my head recently as I found myself devoid of any handiwork projects and realized how much I missed my sewing machine and art supplies this week. Not that my hands are ever idle, mind you, but they were getting a bit itchy for a new […]
Getting Around Taipei
Bear with me, I’m devoting an entire post as an ode to the public transportation system in Taipei. I know it’s not fair to compare the 21 year old metro system here, the MRT, to the 92 year old one in New York City, but I can’t help myself. Not only are the metro stations […]
First Day of Third Grade
Today was Jules’ first day of school as a third grader, or the American equivalent of French CE2, in the French Section at the Taipei European School. He’ll be alternating his days in English and French with a bit of Chinese thrown in on a daily basis. Luckily, the school is only a 10 minute […]
JFK to TPE
Well, we finally took the plunge. Certainly no easy feat, but Philip, Jules and I managed to pack up our lives in Brooklyn, NY and start anew in my birthplace, Taipei, Taiwan for one year. Why would we do something so crazy, you ask? Well, we knew that the window of opportunity to live abroad […]