2006-12-08 22:13:18 · 7 answers · asked by Mary H 1 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Taiwan
-If you try to walk on the street, you will be pretty much get hit by car or scooter in a minutes.
If you don't hit by car but it was very close to an accident, then then no biggy deal( hol** sh**). cuz there is no bad things happend at all. even you are so shocked with almost got killed, it is ok. cuz there is no accidental happening occured YET.
-Scooter drivers are driving without brain.
-Air polution from scooters is horrible. I am not a smoker, I am worrying about my lung.
-So many street dogs. ( 12years ago it was doggy year in Chinese calender. they bought dogs and next year most of them dumped on the street. so sometimes you can guess a dog what kind of mix breed. even better, winter is not cold enough, they all survive. ) This year is dog's year in Chinese calender, I wonder about thoes dogs from next year.
-Pretty nice food. and cheap.
-Tea shops everywhere. It is good.
-If you are lucky you will see computer mouse size of cockroach. sometimes they even fly. cockroach is your best friend and seconldy ants.
-Tile floor. Sometimes tile wall you can see.
-Many of Taiwanese man chewing "Bbing lang"(beatle nut. I don't know how to say it) After chew it, whole teeth are turning into red, and they have to spit out the juice when they chewing it. It is toxic. If you do swallow it, will cause cancer. and also will cause tongue cancer.
-Interesting housing.
-Everywhere you see a leather sofa. even same design.
-When you want to buy some stuff between Taiwanese and other country produck, even Taiwanese recommand none Taiwan product. cuz they know what is quality one. hilarious.
-Wonderful TV. Every 15 minutes you see advertisement for 5~10minutes. And if you miss the movie tonight, you don't have to worry about it. you will see again tomorrow some other time. and over and over again for few days.
No new movies. movies from 5~7 year ago. and show us over and over again with advertisement every 15 minutes. It is GREAT!!!
And every channel has differnt sound volume, so when you change channel you need to be not surprised.
For certain that beautiful reason, I stop watching TV.
-Ceremony most everyday. Burning fake money to their god or ancestors in front of their house or their shop. They want to be protected by their god.
-Movie stars name or name for everythings has Chinese name. If you say Julia Roberts. They have no idea. you got to know Chinese name of her. And also movie name too.
-Most house of kitchen is freaking small no matter how big it is.
-50%~or more of brand sale.
etc etc.
Everything is interesting facts to me. To you too??
2006-12-08 22:55:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
- Jade mountain (Yu -Shan) has the largest mass of any mountain in South East Asia .
Vango - I SAID 'LARGEST' NOT 'HIGHEST' - YU-SHAN HAS THE LARGEST MASS OF ANY MOUNTAIN IN S.E.ASIA. Obviously didn't read my answer - never mind.
- The Southern most tip of the island is in the Tropic of Cancer and gets hot weather all year around (where as the rest of the island gets 3 seasons worth of hot weather and one season a bit milder - not really winter).
- You get an interesting mix of Chinese, Japanese and Western culture.
- Taipei never sleeps, the night-markets close at about 2 - 3am, then the day markets open an hour or two later. There are 7-11's on every corner which are open 24hrs and you can even go shopping at a supermarket any time of day and night. There's even 24hr book stores - people really go there and just read books from cover to cover!
- Taiwan 'still' has the tallest building in the world - Taipei 101.
- Many many beautiful national parks - too many!
- Apparently, Ilan (NE of Taiwan) has one of the 'only 2' cold water springs in the world. It's not really cold but when you compare it with the others it's a bit cooler. Taiwan has dozens of hot-springs!
Is that enough? I know the girl before me listed more so I'm just going to leave it there.
2006-12-09 06:23:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the pronouncements of many people (including many persons trained in the legal profession), the ROC on Taiwan fully meets the international law criteria for statehood.
Those criteria include: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states.
In fact however, the ROC on Taiwan has neither a permanent population nor its own territory. This is because there is no legal basis under international law or under ROC law --
(1) to consider native Taiwanese persons as ROC citizens, (2) to consider that the territorial sovereignty of Taiwan belongs to the ROC!
As we know, the ROC on Taiwan applies to join the United Nations every year, and is always refused. Why is this? The answer is simple: the ROC on Taiwan is not a sovereign nation.
2006-12-11 21:13:59 · answer #3 · answered by IR-student 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The National Art museum has the biggest collection of Chinese artifacts in the world - much bigger than anything in China.
Green island (to the southeast) has hot springs running into the sea - a rare phenomenon.
Yu shan (Jade mountain) is not the highest in SE Asia as DR stated (Kinabalu in Borneo is higher). Nonetheless, for such a small island, Taiwan has an exceptional amount of high mountains - more than 100 over 3000m.
Second most densely populated country in the world (next to Sri Lanka)
2006-12-09 19:12:49 · answer #4 · answered by Vango 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
oh woman tremendously much all human beings in Taiwan loves hi kitty, there's a motel in simple terms of hi kitty, a hi kitty cafe, girrrrrrl taiwan is the situation to be so captivating(: i in no way been there, however the photos say 1000 words. i don't comprehend plenty with regard to the persons i in simple terms comprehend that hi kitty is their idol and MINE TOO (:
2016-12-13 05:38:45 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One thing I find quite shocking is that there are very few rubbish bins you could find at public places and/or along the streets. Most of the time I need to bring the rubbish home and only get rid of them when the rubbish truck comes (sometimes I miss the truck and have to keep the rubbish for another day). Interesting... huh? more of like "inconvenient" :(
2006-12-10 21:45:43 · answer #6 · answered by panic-over-nothin 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Beautiful blue sky is funny
2006-12-12 08:07:00 · answer #7 · answered by Mark L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋