Day at night

FOOD. One thing that's easy to notice in Tawan is how much people love food here. You turn on the television and 3 out of 5 channels are either showng food from local resturants or interviewing chefs about their cuisine. We might have the food network out in the states bu it pales in comparison to how food is placed here in society. Ryan even tells me he can over hear peoples phone conversation and much of the time it's about food. I'm not complaining though, I love it!

We started the day with a real good beef noodle soup. The broth was rich and heavy and the noodles fresh. The beef cuts were lean and not too fatty. That along with some flavord tofu sealed the deal for me.

We walked around Zhongli for a bit until Ryan had to go to work. There's a cool park by his place where a bar sits in the middle of it. A bell and a buddha statue also stood in various places at the park. 

 For some reason I had a strong urge to watch MIB 3 and there is a movie theater right by Ryan's apartment so I thought I'd watch it until he got out. Watching an american movie with Chinese subtitles in a theater was a bit new to me. The movie was pretty good and it anaged to submerg enough into American culture to the point where I was surprised that I was in Taiwan after the movie was over. It's like a traveled back to America for a bit and got sucked right back into Taiwan again. 

That night we met up with some new found friends and just exchnaged some stories in a chill manner. I ended up going to Taipei the next day tto wander around. It's not too easy to navigate through and many of the attractions are spread out so I mainly just got to check out Ximending; a shopping district in the city. The lights are so bright and numerous that it drowns out the darkness.

The next day after that entailed a trip out to Tainan where some of Ryan's friends live.