Author: Melissa
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Tea Cuisine
The long-standing Ten Ren tea brand now has chain restaurants serving tea-infused cuisine. Everything from veggies to pork ribs and dessert is cooked with ingredients such as green tea, black tea, tea seed oil, Pu-Erh, Oolong, and others. The food is great! On the lighter side and tasty still. Main course Green Tea Chicken with old Shaoxing wine appears modest but is…
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Can I Make friends with you?
Out on the streets, there isn’t much public table I can write on, so I decided to use a dirty transformer box as a table. While contemplating what to write to the newly weds, a young man approached. “Do you have the time?” I wrestled out my iPhone. “It’s 1:41.” “Thank you.” Before I can put away my…
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Foreign language
The kids in the back of the bus were speaking English. Not necessarily fluent, but perfectly at ease. Maybe they’re members of the ambassador club of NTHU, like I was before. A dark, thin man was standing next to me, eyeing the kids suspiciously. “Foreign language,” he muttered now and then. His phone rang. “Wei,” he spoke…
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Rain
Splash Splash Wham Wheeze Wheeze Drip drop Drip drop Shhhhh……. Pzzzzzz [Weather is neglected] Whaaaaaamm Whaaaaaaaammmm How many vocabularies are there for the sounds of rain? Obviously I can’t think of many.
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4 Drinks per meal
In the beginning, there was only one drink. It’s for after dessert. There was no milk tea option, so I ordered a raspberry yogurt sawa. Sounds good. But after ordering, he asked for a glass of red wine for each of us. Gosh, you have bottles at home! Why bother? Then already, the first “course” was champagne. Yes,…
