The Revenge of the Recyclables

By Rebecca Kehl – Dec 2015 In this article, a mystery will be revealed before your very eyes… It is the 2-fold challenge of curing modern man’s addiction to plastic. I shall reveal the mystery now, at the beginning, to save you all the suspense. The answer is: Completely adapting to a life of reuseables (the

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Aboriginal New Year’s Feast in Chingchuan

Check this out – The Wild East’s Wild Feast! What can be better than being able to spend the weekend and your New Year’s outside the crush and smog of the city? ChingChuan, located in the mountains of Hsinchu, is home to a fusion of people including the indigenous Atayal

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Hungarian loses appetite at Taiwan breakfast shop

By Frank V., for The Wild East Offering my Hungarian-Jew-style comedy to Taipei Comedy Club guests for the third time some weeks ago, I felt the support of the local audience again, which is the best drug for a comedian. I always wonder why comedy has no tradition in Taiwan,

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Upon visiting a McDonald’s in an Asian city

The Wild East / Comedy Got off the bus. Saw the yellow arches and headed towards that venerable international institution. My friend, whose birthday it is this evening, may have looked back from his seat on the bus and wondered why I hadn’t entered the MRT station. Instead, I made

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Something’s Cookin’ in the Kitchen: Le Rouge Restaurant

Review by Trista di Genova / The Wild East How do you eat it at Le Rouge French-Italian Restaurant? As often as you can. I still recall the incredible Thanksgiving dinner Zacharie Touzin single-handedly pulled off some years ago – tender turkey basted to perfection, stuffing, mashed potatoes — the

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The Italian artiste at Marco Polo Restaurant

By Trista di Genova / The Wild East Preview of upcoming article for Wine & Dine magazine Hungering for a taste of the fine Italian cuisine of my ancestors, the folks at Far Eastern Hotel in Taipei kindly invited me for an amazing lunch recently, a chance to sample the

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My Run-In With The Dumpling Vendor

by Trista di Genova There’s this little place deep in the Heart of Banciao where they admittedly have some great shui-jiao but some lousy, cheese-emporium-like service. When I ordered some curry dumplings, they said they were all out – mai wan le so I tried to score some Korea-style dumplings

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Taiwan people's national sport: "Eating Something"

By Trista di Genova, The Wild ‘Eats’ Today I was reminded again, that more than baseball, more than mahjong, betel-nut chewing or basketball, the nation’s national sport is actually to ‘eat something’. This was made ever-so-clear today at the International Day food festival at Taipei Medical University. The international students

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Potluck in DaAn Park – Rain or Shine

By Taipei Potluck & Music Circle – 大安公園共享音樂餐會 WHEN: Sunday, November 6 · 3:00pm – 10:00pm, Taipei, Taiwan Location: Da An Park – 大安森林公園 Walk north from the Heping / Jian Guo Road Corner edge of the park, to the second pavillion. Call if you can’t find it, but please

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