Well, I've been here for a week now, so I thought it would be prudent to update.
Observations so far:
Everything is delicious. Pictured is what I had for supper this evening. Yummy. Though one odd thing is that there doesn't seem to be any lean meat here. All of it is riddled with delicious nurturing fat.
Not everything is delicious. Example, if anyone offers you some Natto, refuse it. You can be as polite or as freaked out as you want, but do NOT eat it. It looks like foamy baked beans, has the texture of stringy jello and beans, and the taste of semi-sweet battery acid and beans.
Everyone is nice. If someone talks you you, odds are they will be very nice. Occasionally you will pass someone who looks at you funny, but that's rare. I don't know if they're just being nice, or if they're genuinely really nice. Either way, it makes you feel pretty at ease.
This place is clean. The only litter you really see is cigarette butts. On that subject, I don't see as many people smoking as we've been lead to believe. I only see maybe one or two people a day smoking. I see more than that at Adrian!
This place is green. Everybody seems to have a garden of some sort, and the municipal plantings are just as nice. I see little potted bushes, vegetables, and bonsai trees all over the place.
Umm, well... I guess that's it for now. I've got to get back to doing stuff now. I'll be in touch!
5 comments:
Your meal DOES look delicious! No lean meat eh? I'm a little surprised. Sounds like your experience so far is very good.
Natto is good for you -- eat up! All right, I've never eaten it and, from what I've read, you have to eat and eat and eat it until it tastes alright to you (maybe your taste buds die). But there are those who say it's very healthful --including heart health-- and is an excellent source of non-meat vitamin B12 and protein so maybe an antidote to that marbled animal tissue you're writing about! (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natto) Thanks for keeping up your blog; it's fascinating reading. And better you eating natto than me... ewwwww, stringy!
I'm finding it pretty much the same in Taipei, but there are a LOT of smokers here. But everything is so green, yes.
Natto is made of FAIL and POO.
DO NOT EAT!
Sounds like a great place (minus the fail and poo)!
Maybe all those cigarette butts are from those two people you saw smoking! ;) When we were in Italy you could get cigarettes (and beer) our of vending machines, and I saw Middle School age kids smoking :(
I think I should come visit you... hmm... better start saving my pennies.
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