Wow! Thank you for taking the time to provide a detailed explanation. I really am curious about it.
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Just went to a japanese udon chain.
I ordered a äšžćéşľ âdry mixâ bowl of noodles. Same thing i order everytime. In chinese.
The guy replies ânoshu?â Im stumped.
âčéź âďźi reply.
He gets his co worker to help and continue using english. âNo soupâ?
Ok now i know what they are saying but i dont know why. Its a âdry mixâ dish it doesnât have soup. And it doesnt come with a side order of soup. So i just said give me this the normal way, i always have this.
He then makes the dish and gives me an extra bowl of seaweed soup on the side.. which i didnt take.
If he just used chinese from the start im sure it would have at least made slightly more sense. Needless hassle.
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Shortly before midnight we were (2 people) running to a paid parking, so we can save some NTD to be there before midnight and there was some group of young adults sitting under the canopy in front of a convenience store (I think) and suddenly a girl put her leg into my way trying to make me to trip over her leg.
Fortunately I noticed it, skipped over her leg and managed to even point at her while shouting âHEY!!â, while just slightly slowing down.
Despite there were at least 6 girls and 3 guys at the moment, no one said anything and she just looked into the ground, anyway, I am wondering what is the thinking behind doing such shit.
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Saw this unusual agave plant in the arse end of Miaoli and snapped a pic.
Turns out that itâs supposedly a pretty rare event marking the end of the plants life ?
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And it is apparently an asparagus!
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[!quote] Taiwan News Formosa TV
A group of teenagers in Kaohsiung is getting flack online after posting videos on social media hurling YouBikes down the stairs. The teens are being slammed for vandalizing public property, and the YouBike company says it will seek compensation for the damages. The school of two of the students has apologized on their behalf, saying it will intervene in the matter.
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The videos show the students at Pingfeng park, pushing the bikes down a flight of wooden stairs, not far from a YouBike stand. Itâs unknown whether they were crashing the bikes down for fun or because they couldnât be bothered to take the bikes down properly. The operator says it can identify the culprits thanks to digital rental records.
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The school apologizing for the students is whack.
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They have brought shame on the school, which takes responsibility for its membersâ bad behavior.
Hereâs an anecdote to help show this is not only the case in Taiwan. In Japan, teachers who worked at a public school with (ahem) not always well behaved students told me that when they went on overnight school excursions with said students, at least one of the teachers accompanying the students slept wearing a suitâjust in case they were called in the middle of the night by the local police station to attend to an incident. 
Guy
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Previously read about this plant after seeing such tall flowering event. Not sure about what is really the situation but seems can blossom anywhere from 50 to 100 years old. Too many conflicting opinionsâŚha.
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Seems a bit silly. I would imagine the police would let the guy have a couple of minutes to get dressed.
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I presume that hustling down to the police station would be one way to show sincerityâand to try to get things (ahem) resolved should circumstances make that necessary.
Guy
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Arguably parents should also shoulder some of the shame.
No disagreement from me on that point.
I simply wanted to underline how school responsibilities in Taiwan (and more broadly in East Asia) extend in ways that some folks from elsewhere may underestimate.
Guy
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And collective responsibility in general.
Except on the roads and sidewalks
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If so, it seems like it would be better to do that not in a rumpled suit that looks like itâs just been slept in.
Thereâs not a collectively responsible unit in that context. Maybe the answer is to establish driving clubs!
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Knowing what I know about the Japanese market, I suspect there are suits for sale that are engineered and designed for such purposes to studiously avoid such rumpling. 
Guy
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Yes they probably have anti vomit suits as well
And disposable suits .
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