Taiwan: Hour 1
October 7th, 2006 - 5:46 pm
Landed here in Taipei a few hours ago. Note: Foreign airlines are, in my experience, always better than american ones because:
1) The attendants are all female.
2) The attendants are nice and don’t give you unwarranted attitude.
3) The attendants are attractive.
4) The food is better.
5) The seats are comfortable.
This morning after getting here, we walked around the streets and found a little hole in the wall place to have a chinese breakfast consisting of soybean milk, “oily sticks” (think fried dough), and chinese steamed pork bun. Oh man.. The food here is so good. If I don’t come back 10 lbs heavier, I will have failed.
So that’s how I spent the first 2 hours here. I’ll leave you with a an image of the first store we walked past after getting out of the cab. Offensive Engrish go!
I don’t understand. Did they not know what that word means, a la Japanese t-shirts with random English words on them? Or is this something like that “Blackie” (or is it “Darkie”?) toothpaste they sell in other countries?
wow, I`ve got nothing on that .. yesterday I saw a store that said “Testeful Living,” an honest mistake, and a woman wearing a shirt that said “FUCK YOU YOU FUCKIN` FUCK,” but that was obviously a Strapping Young Lad reference.
Glad to hear you`re vacationing the right way! Hole in wall GO!
I think they sort of know what it means, but they don’t know the connotation behind the word. Just like the “darkie” toothpaste (which is now called “darling” toothpaste) is just straightforward. Black people’s teeth look really white because of the contrast. They don’t mean it as an insult… Chinese people are just straight shooters. They say things straight out like “are you getting fat?” or “what the hell is wrong with your face?” (ok I made that second one up).