Day 22 || Interesting bits about Taiwanese

It has been almost 3 weeks since I first came to Taiwan. Everything came so fast. Here are some of interesting things I have found as I live in Kangle society (though I am not sure if it’s correct or not)

1. Manual Rubbish Dumping
The locals would wait at the front door with their rubbish packed for the rubbish car to pick up their stuff. For Kangle, it is done every day at 1.30pm. One that amuses me was the fact that the locals would have to throw rubbish by themselves. This was unexpected as even in Indonesia, all you need to do is to dump your rubbish in rubbish bin outside your home and the rubbish company would pick them up.

And oh, they really have a cute and distinct sound when the rubbish bus is coming :)

(pictures and video coming)

2. Milk Teas
Almost every 100m, there is always a milk teas shop XD and they are priced reasonably cheap, starting from 15 Yuan to 50 Yuan. Their milk teas have so many flavors such as rose milk teas, chocolate milk teas, green tea milk tea, it is just too many to mention them all. Even green tea have four different brand...geez..Aren’t they just taste the same??! Now that I think of how much I loved Easy Way back in Australia…they must be making big bucks over there! I am just going to buy a pre-packed boba pearl and pour it with iced green tea.

3. Da Lu vs China
One funny thing I noticed that Taiwanese refer China as Da Lu. Have asked them why but they say it’s their habit. Strange …

4. Cute packaging
Ta-da..and never forget their super cute packaging. Everything is packaged well and designed really well.

5. Automatic Cup Sealer for drinks
Never think that only the milk teas shop have this! In actual fact, every restaurants or food stalls have this installed. So whatever drinks you bought from anywhere…looks as if you bought one from a milk tea shop.

6. Bakery Shops - Breads
Never had I seen so many varieties of breads in my life. They have the toasted maple syrup bread, the rose and cheese bun, strawberry rose bun, French bread, polo bun, pork floss bun. My gosh..no wonder 85 café is so popular in Sydney. Sydney’s bread looks so plain comparing to Taiwan’s…not to mention Indonesia..even plainer. I should have taken photos when I am inside the bakeries. Next time..next time …

My TN had asked me to do another assignment which is designing and translating their current website to English. At first I thought it’s going to be pretty easy but …I was proven wrong, especially when you had to do edit photo using Chinese language with Photoshop. Or even basic translation…Thankfully the TN did not expect me to translate them word by word but instead write them on what I had known.

Been spending 3 days and I finally managed to translate almost of all the pages (though I did skipped some hehe) and designed a front page for the English site. Cant wait till it's done.