Interview with Joey from USA

Interview with Joey from USA

Joey is a young American and just finish his college study. His first impression of Taiwan is that everything would like Mainland China and knew it has its democracy and military. His favorite food is Radish cake with egg(菜頭糕), soybean milk and pearl milk tea. His favorite place is Wulai town, New Taipei city, where I brought him to a trail called Datung Mountain trail(大桶山步道) and the hot spring. His suggestion for Taiwan is hope government can build more safe hiking trails for people or maintain the facilities of those hiking places.

I met Joey in my Canadian Joey’s place but we didn’t talk much at that time. I later brought he to the trail in Wulai and was impressed with his hiking experience. I didn’t know he love hiking that much. I also appreciate his passion for Banjo instrument and thanks for sharing the music with us.

Good Luck, Joey. 

An interview with Remy

I met Remy in a hike in Wuliaojin (五寮尖), and he is a really handsome American with the talent of writing and music. His first impression of Taiwan is a land full of toys. Taiwan has a hot weather, surfing areas and biking routes. His favorite food in Taiwan is tofu or stinky tofu, tomatoes and some vegetables. His favorite place is Dulan (都蘭), Taidong. “I went there in a scooter trip in 3000 meters high for 10 days, and I stoped by a surfing hostel there. I went surfing later and practice beach Yoga with a new friends, and I ended up going to his house for a dinner. I shared my music with him later after dinner.” He said. “My second favorite place is Dragon Cave (龍洞) in Keelung, you can do rock climbing there and deep water solo.” He added.

He really concern about air pollution in Taiwan and hope that government can level up regulation in environment, and it would be helpful for Taiwan nature beauty. Also, we need to care about animal and don’t throw them to the street.

“Besides, my girlfriend once lost my scarf and called the police for a help in 2 am. A police later drove to the spot to look for her scarf and got it back to her. Well, compare with USA police, Taiwan police is really amazing and care about people.” Added he again.

It is simply inspiring. Taiwan Police, you rocks!!!!

PS Remy is a good friend of mine, and he has a good nature and love to share music and knowledge with people. He will leave Taiwan in five days and I had a great time with him, hiking, hot spring, playing baseball, drinking and going to bar, etc. Wow, I cant live without you la~~~~~!
Goodbye, Remy, all the best!

A talk with Sarah from Germany

Sarah is a lovely, smiling and easygoing German girl and studying in East Taiwan. Her passion for aboriginal cultures surprised me and gives me a reflection on our own culture. I find out that our traditional cultures are dying, and should we learn our traditional cultures from foreigners in the near future?

Let’s get back to the topic, her first impression of Taiwan is Nero. Her favorite food in Taiwan is vegetables(素食), like taro. Her favorite place here is in Sandiman(三地門) tribe’s village because people are naïve and hospitable and good weather.

About comment for better Taiwan, she hope we give the youth more free time for learning more things and thinking of their future. We put too much shit pressure on our descendant and force them to study for a long time, and teachers lose their passion because of too much classes’ preparation. “Students in Germany have less time of studying and so they have more time to looking for their likes.” She told me. Besides, we Taiwanese has a strong stereotypes of many things, like aborigines like drinking. Also, we have a narrow-mind of the world and think that English is the only foreign language and foreigners only speak it.

A talk with Anne

Anne is a very charming lady from Montreal, Canada. Her first impression of taiwan is some taiwan products and later she found out it is a tropical island in Asia. Her favorite place in taiwan is Green island because of clean air and its green scenery, and she only spend few hours there and hope she can come back again to try snorkelling and some underwater activities. Her favorite food here is fried dumpling (juicy meat inside and crispy outside), her suggestion for us Taiwan is to be more conscious about our environment and stop throwing trash in the beach and have more car-pooling when you go travelling or somewhere far.

A Talk with Jose

He is the first person who i had interviewed from Montreal, and he came to Tawian for teaching English for one year. We had been hung out from many times for some hikes and drinking parties. His impression of Taiwan is that he knew its chinese-spoken country and there is a big issue with China. His is favorite food is the little steam bun (小籠包), dumpling and mango. His favorite place is East Coast and the best momery of travelling in Taiwan is to ride a scooter and went from Hualian to Taidong. His concern about Taiwan is environment pollution and he hope to see this problem can be solve or relieved. 

He had left Taiwan on 9/1, 2014, and i m gonna miss him very much!

Interview Robbert from US

Robbert came to Taiwan 30 years ago as a student in 東海college for learning Mandarin. He travelled to Taiwan back and forth for probably 50 times. His first impression about Taiwan is busy street and crowdy people. His favorite food is stinky tofu(once a week), salty soybean milk and 燒餅. He loves to put tuna and some vegetable in燒餅for meal. His favorite place is Kaohsiung cause’ of no snow, wide n clean streets and lot of good cafes and restaurants. He would love to see fewer scooters in the streets in the future, and it can improve the traffic and help cleaning the environment. Finally he give us thumbs up for a big change and improvement for the Taiwan environment especially for Kaohsiung love river ya!

Interview Ken Wu from USA

Ken Wu is the founder of a group on Facebook, Taiwan is not part of China, he is a Taiwanese American and moved to US since he was ten years old. His first impression of Taiwan is things changed quickly and a lot of pollution and stress, but later when he came back again, everything became different, streets are cleaner and people became more civilized. His favorite place is the entire Taiwan. But to be honest, its Taipei cause' he had most of his memories here, he said. His favorite food is the food which is sold in some old stores, but if he need to point out, it can be baked chicken wing, sashimi, stinky tofu, oil and sticky rice(油飯) on his top list of yummy Taiwanese food. His suggestion for us Taiwan is to build more parking space for Taipei residents, secondly, dont be racist, to respect our aborigines and other people group.