Chicken in Bok & Beer 台北市大安區浦城街13巷4號 With the controversy still roiling regarding overcrowding in Shi-da night market and the...

Photo from this site It's been 5 1/2 years. 5 1/2 years of learning Chinese - with some extended breaks, but make no mistake, I...

A well-known essay on Why Chinese is So Damn Hard recently reappeared online. I remember reading it back when it first appeared, agreeing...

I used to have this idea that if I studied Chinese long and hard enough, someday I’d be “fluent”, like Fluency was a prize I could win and m...

Everyone who reads this blog even remotely regularly knows about my semi-fanatical obsession with two foodstuffs: 1.) sea urchins and 2.) ...

Back in 2009 I wrote about studying at Shi-da and gave my overall review of the place. Final verdict: you'll improve your writing and ...

I had a commenter ask about this so I'll go ahead and post it here (comments box deemed the reply "too long"): Shi-da The good...

Comfy student cafes in Taipei. We - we being four Americans, an Australian and a Taiwanese girl - celebrated Thanksgiving at Exotic Masala H...