How about these independent coffee shops? How do they make it financially?

[tango42]

@bdog

I was mocked too! I tried working out of a cafe one morning. The wifi wasn’t on so I went up to the counter and in my best pigeon Chinese asked if he could turn it on. Buhaoyise, wifi youmeyou kai ? Then he turned it on and grumbled something or other, didn’t really sound too apologetic, however I thanked him anyway. I went back to my posie near the front counter, coding away. He served me, reaching across my table with his arm in my face. His arm and hand were dripping with water, gross. Xie xie, anyway I suppose, not minding it was another huge watery cup of Taipei drek. At least I would be pumped with caffeine. A few minutes later, I heard him out in the back kitchen behind the counter with his co-worker saying in an exaggerated and obviously mocking accent “bu hao yi se, wifi meyou kai” . I don’t think he realised how much the sound travelled…

Suffice to say that and some other bad experiences have ended my jaunt of working out of cafes here.

This is a wack Taiwan thing.

Wack Things in Taiwan 2019

Does anyone else find it odd that the new Danhai LRT lists the stations in English before other languages? If they put other languages before French in Quebec transport, they’d be calling for the heads of those politicians.