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.

A talk with the best surfer from South Africa-Neil

Neil is the surfing-board maker and a very easygoing person. His impression of Taiwan is everything is made from here, toys, electronics, clothes and so on, but he changed his idea completely when he'd gotten here! His favorite food is beef noodle n soft dumpling(餛吞). Also, the three-cup-chicken(三杯雞), which esp is made by my friend, Yayun. His favorite place is the the east coast, which is the combination of the steep jungle and the beach. The view of that place is simply amazing. Moreover, it includes the various sea life and clean water. His suggestion is do our best to clean the super dirty west coast, stop polluted the river, n have more beach clean-up events.
Ocean is a great resource for taiwan n we need to protect it and take advantage of the resource to develop our economics, i think to myself at the end.

A talk with the most funiest South African-Cedrick

Cedrick is very funny and cool guy from South Africa, who is a very strong man n carried 8 kilogram water to challenge the North peak of Hehwan Mount(合歡北峰). His impression of taiwan is unclear because of language barrier. His favorite food is the one his wife made for him and his family. His suggestion for Taiwan is to dont study or work that hard, so you can have more time to think of your goals, dreams, find out your passion or simply enjoy your life. His second suggestion for us is that be a strong man and to push the weak to do something like you did, such as going hiking.

A Talk with Leo in the peace park

Leo is a Chinese Canadian who just came to Taiwan for enjoy his vocation. His first impression of Taiwan is similar to China and much cleanly and friendly. His favorite food is Taiwanese Pizza(蔥油餅) and favorite place is Bayan hot spring(one of the best wild hot springs in Taiwan). His suggestion for us is to have more art creation and feel proud of showing the world our talent in art.

A talk to with Gene

Gene is the second Taiwanese American who i met in life, and he is easygoing man and an engineer in Taiwan.His first impression of Taiwan is hot weather when he was little and visited his relatives. People here are good looking, added he later. He likes Meal Box and Taroko Gorge. His suggestion for us Taiwan, stop digging the road and street if it only proves that our government is incompetent!

A talk with Evan

Evan is a very special American who put a lot of time on studying Taiwan History and culture. Here's his words about Taiwan, my first impression is we had a political problem in the cross-strait; my favorite food is stick dumpling(鍋貼); my favortie place is Taiwan Nature, like high mountains(塔塔加) and orchid island; my suggestion for improvement in taiwan, dont be that racism, dont judge people by their skin color.
Most of foreigners who i met are just playing and having fun in taiwan, but Evan is certainly the opposite way of person, an American care about the human's right in taiwan^^

A Talk with Garret

Garret is a very experience surfer from USA, here is his words about Taiwan, his first impression about here is Everything in USA is made in Taiwan and its amazing nature. His favorite place is Taitung cuz' its big wave and nature. He hope we can improve Ping-in system in mandarin in the street sign and so tourists wont get lost; we need to improve our English ability so that we can help foreigners about language translation. At last, i ask him to introduce Rising Sun Surf Inn(宜蘭縣頭城鎮濱海路2段236號, its near 宜蘭外澳車站), it is a hostel for people love ocean activities and for backpacker.

A talk with Tars from Belgium

Tars is the most handsome European and good mandarin speaker who i had met so far, here is his words about us Taiwan, and actually no one in Europe knows about Taiwan, its a secret spot for me. He had traveled many places here, n his favorite one is Wai-ao and Rising Surf Inn  Hostel and the artistic Tainan. His suggestion for us Taiwan is that Surfing is a new activity here and so u are gonna watch out when u are surfing in the ocean and make sure if you dont hit others and kill them.

A talk with Jiling

Jiling is one of special person who i met in life and the first Taiwan American in my show. Her favorite place is Yang Ming Mountain(陽明山). Her favorite food is Durian and Dragon Fruit, wow, unbeliveable! Her suggestion for us is to cherish what we have already and be open-minded for new things and ideas.

A talk with Sarah

Sarah is the first American woman who i had interview, so here is her words about Taiwan, it is more modern and developed than she expected; her favorite food here is to go to vegetarian shop; her favorite place here is PengHu(澎湖) because of its clean water in the ocean. Her complain about Taiwan is air pollution and we need to build more green area in the city.

An extra Q for her is how did u think of dating a Taiwanese guy? Well, it is hard to deal with cross-culture relationship, like language barrier and so on. Besides, taiwanese guys are too Conservitive for American girls, hahaha...but it would be very interesting, she said.