The Taipei Kid

…tried to keep my hands on the table.
Quick! Get out your Grease 8-track tapes, your Xanadu videocassettes (hopefully in betamax) and put on your leg warmers—Olivia Newton-John is coming to Taipei! Now this we would actually go see, as long as the show is more Physical and Magic and not the 90s new age earth-mother […]

Wallpaper magazine recently gave Eva Air an award (”Best Livery”) for its mile-high shrine to Hello Kitty! Top that, Alaska Airlines!

I had blogged about what I hope is the now-famous “Flirt…the art of pleasure” microwave and now they’ve got a “Flirt…the art of pleasure” rice cooker. I really wanted to get it, but my Winnie the Pooh rice cooker still seems to work fine, despite the fact that the lid is slightly broken and the […]

Taipei’s sparkling clean subway system failed to make the list of the Top 11 underground transit systems. Maybe it wasn’t “eye-catching”, “diverse” and “popular” enough, but it is clean, and nice, and it works.