finish the sentence:
You know you are in taiwan when______.
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The green flavor is green tea, not mint.
Purple flavor is taro, not grape.
White is hokkaido milk, not vanilla.
Black dots are red bean, not chocolate chips.
Bus and train stops are translated to at least 3 languages.
There are metal cans of burning paper on the streets.
There are scooters driving on the sidewalk.
Trucks, cars and scooters run red lights (in kaosiung anyway)
You have an adrenaline rush and see your life flash before your eyes at least once every taxi ride
Your budget for a weekâs worth of lunch-box meals is still less than what your friends back home spend on one meal out
You start following silly superstitions and do stuff you never used to, like avert your gaze away from the moon and never write someoneâs name in red pen
You consider Heineken an acceptable beer and McDonaldâs hamburgers not only edible, but a treat that reminds you of home
Your TV viewing more and more consists of âMasterchefâ reruns and CCTV of scooter crashes on the Taiwanese news
When people are walking around with bubble tea in small plastic bags
(Where as in Canada pple carry around a cup of coffee and in France pple carry a baguette)
When you buy street food and they put the food in a bag, and then another bag plus a pair of chopsticks. Or when i buy a cake paper plates, forks and knife comes with it. Itâs so environmentally unfriendly.
When you go through 4 sets of clothing and at least 3 showers a day. Or maybe thatâs just Kaohsiung where itâs so bloody hot that I sweat a swimming pool on a daily basis.