Yes, it's a punny title, but I won't change it.  It felt like magic when I began losing weight without tryin...

One cold morning in 2004, I walked into work to find my colleagues congratulating each other. We're talking clinking coffee mugs, back p...

Consider these two facts: There are more foreign women than men in Taiwan . Mostly, they're from Southeast Asia or China and either marr...

As usual I don't have a great header image, but I thought a memorial temple to five women who were screwed over by the patriarchy in Tai...

Just wanted you guys to know that I've updated my post on an English-speaking OB-GYN in Taipei, as my old clinic has closed and Dr. Wang...

Over the past few months I've been gearing up to write my dissertation, and was feeling a bit blue about having lots of reading to do be...

In part because Lao Ren Cha' s initial goal was to write about life as a female foreign resident in Taiwan, and in part because I just c...

My new queen Joanna Chiu hits the nail so perfectly on the head that the nail goes straight through the wood, through the table and right in...

I borrowed this photo from here , but hey, go ahead and buy their sticky rice sausages! Free marketing! Those sausages sure look good. I ...

I'll be expanding this more in the coming weeks, but I feel like I need to say something now, however short and underdeveloped. If you...