Tainan "Dirty Area" still there

From the story below:

The "Dirty Area"Created by the Rest and Recuperation Program
In 1965, the U.S. Army established the Rest and Recuperation Program (R&R), selecting places like Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Manila, and Taiwan to set up as vacation destinations for American soldiers who were on leave from the Vietnam War.

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Some sad stories there.

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A few decades ago, met a Taiwanese girl of another Taiwanese friend who probably has a similar story.
Clearly has African bloodline with frizzy hair and other distinct features, and even the other Taiwanese friend would quietly wonder, too, but nothing ever discussed openly.
It was not from the U.S. army years, though.

That Taiwanese girl went to the U.S. on her own and now has a very successful career she’s made for herself there. A really classy (and beautiful) girl.

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All of Taiwan was a GI dirty area! But getting a cleanse and a meal was very important.


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The Dirt Man is still going strong! Best collection of vinyl and motorbikes in Taiwan.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dirty-Roger/105672296173635

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Good god he’s still there?! Spent quite a bit of time there a couple decades back.

Yes, lots of stories I guess at that time!

Not as sad as the troop stories out of Somalia:
American-Canadian war? - Politics / International Politics - Forumosa

Nice ending to the story!

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Maybe form this era

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Tainan is still pretty dirty. Be it prostitution, drugs, garbage, unhygienic food, very unhealthy food (famously, even for taiwan standards) and rampant pollution. Nevermjnd housing, traffic and health care issues.

Those tainan folks, lol. They get a few factories, and tech injections, and all of a sudden they think their shit don’t stink no more. Classic example of trailer park mentality :joy:

Taiwanese people keep telling me that Tainan has the best food in Taiwan…

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I was skeptical too, but I went to Tainan a couple weekends ago, and had the best damn hotpot I’ve had on this island. Name is ę¾å¤§ę²™čŒ¶ēˆ. Nothing in Kaohsiung compares. The street food is really good there too. Look, I can’t say it was healthy or even if it was clean, but it tasted much better than the street fare in Kaohsiung. For the best variety of international food, you definitely still want to go to Taipei. But for Taiwanese/Chinese staples, Tainan definitely earned its rep from what I saw. Kaohsiung is the absolute pits. Food here is garbage. We even get roaches in our HSR bento boxes.

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That’s bullshit. But maybe Canadians and Americans might think so from what ive read on this forum? Loads of sodium, loads of sugar and loads of other flavor enhancing BS :wink: If you still think taiwanese food sucks, just understand that all of Taiwan makes fun of Tainan food for exactly this reason: excessive amiunts of flavor enhancers (especially sugar and salt). I cna confirm this as well…just a heads up.

As in, extra used tissues?

I’m so traumatized now that even when I leave the city I don’t really want to eat anywhere I don’t know. I bring food with me, or go to 711 or McDonald’s :cry:

I’m not following…

Doubt those places are much cleaner. I’ve seen roaches in Subway, McDonalds, 7/11 over the years. If you see them on the floor, they’ve been in the food.

There are clean places in Kaohsiung. But definitely have to check out the interior first. Dim lighting, cluttered with boxes or other crap, bad or stuffy smell, low customer turnover, surly or dirty looking employees… usually means ā€œrun away.ā€

Sounds like a shitty place, but hotpot is overall what this country does best in terms of food imo. I… honestly can’t think of anything else.

But you cook it yourself! Washing vegetables is the best they can do?

Nah, it’s all about the quality of the place’s brown sauce (shacha) imo. And the broth base. Come on, I agree this place is no food Mecca, but let’s be fair. There’s more to good hotpot than just cleaning and throwing a bunch of veggies into a pot.

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