Biking around an older part of Taipei’s 三民 neighborhood I wasn’t too familiar with, on a market street with shops and food vendors, I see an old truck with a raised blue awning parked near the corner of the intersection. It was a shot-from-guns puffed rice treat maker!
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wilbeck
First stop after landing at 5:30am with little to no sleep on the 12 hour flight was to head to Wilbeck Coffee, which is my personal world favorite. Kevin roasts the beans in a little copper roaster almost one bean at a time, and the steam milk is a close cousin to whipped cream. Then… Continue reading
kitsune
Sean: Café Kitsune, Tokyo
palace museum
In November I got an invitation to teach a one-week workshop at the Palace Museum on two diverse subjects: solubility parameters and anoxia. We decided that the Christmas holiday would be a good fit with Sean’s school and our other work schedules, and Fall is usually nice weather in Taiwan (and that turned out to be true enough: sitting around… Continue reading
aikido in taiwan
Looking online before I left, I found only two aikido dojos in Taipei, one high in the forested hills outside of town, and another just a short walk from my wife’s family’s home in the Sung Shan district. That sounded great, so I took my lightweight gi and a white belt and walked over to… Continue reading
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