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Holiday Time in Taiwan

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If you’re wondering why there haven’t been so many posts yesterday and today, I’d like to redirect you to one of my friend’s blogs. The pictures explain half the story.

It’s holiday time here… And it’s a big holiday this year! It’s Dragon Boat Festival with tons of dragon boat racing in Taipei and a HUGE religious festival in Tamsui! We spent two hours trying to drive through it! So for this post, I’m redirecting you to Craig Ferguson’s Gallery and Blog.

Anyway, his pictures are fantastic, so take a look. And Happy Dragon Boat Festival. And here’s the story: Qu Yuan.

Business the Taiwanese Way 101

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100 1698For those of you who haven’t figured it out yet, I’m actually based in Taiwan . I’m married to a local lady, and we live in Tamsui, which is a lovely sea town north of Taipei. We live in the town, but we are very near some beautiful natural environments, riverside and mountains! So if you see us, say hi!

We’ve lived here in Tamsui for about 5 years, but for much longer, I have noted in the Taiwanese a tremendous willingness to do business. In fact, in this area, there are a plethora of small business that are quite unique to Taiwan, and don’t have allegories in the U.K.

Over the next few months, I’m going to feature small businesses I find in Taiwan, and discuss their ins-and-outs. Naturally, I’m no expert, but I’ll try to provide a realistic idea of what makes them unique, and what value you could take away from studying them, and their approach to doing business.

#1 is coming up on Monday!… Smells good, too!

The Daily Latte

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How the money goes…?

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Yes, those $3 a day habits do really add up!

Let’s see:
$3*365 = $1095 per year.

That doesn’t include the overpriced confections, cakes or cookies.

So you could really save quite a lot of money this way!

I used to enjoy going to *$ onholiday in the UK. The sandwiches were fresh and delicious about three years ago. Last summer, I went. All I could find was stupid stuff that didn’t look good, wraps, I think. What happened to their excellent sandwiches?
It’s the same in Taiwan, the food quality of many of their cakes leaves a lot to be desired, and I even complained once to no avail, because one cake I bought was so awful, I threw 95% of it away.

Moreover, their food preparation is going downhill seriously. So with some careful choices you could really find a better way to save your money AND have good fresh food.

Kenneth