I'm in Taiwan Scene writing about expat lives old and new, how the beer and food scene in Taiwan has changed, and what's on offer to...

The view from the British Consulate at Takao You're a pretty city, Kaohsiung, and I enjoy visiting you, but you can't justify a t...

It pains me to say it, but Taiwan has some deep discrepancies between the human rights ideals it claims to espouse, and how it treats not on...

So, I'm meant to be on vacation after a long slog to finish a huge paper - that's why Lao Ren Cha  has been quiet for most of No...

Sexy Legislator and Chthonic frontman Freddy Lim, performing at the Taipei pro-marriage equality rally on December 18th in support of thre...

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...

This post is coming late, because I took a short blogging break following my two post-election posts. The reason, dear readers, is that I...