A Very Chinese Day…As Told Through Instagram

Today was a very Chinese day, and because of that I felt like snapping some shots and playing around with them in Instagram (follow me @franko76). No, that really didn’t make much sense… It started with lunch with a friend at Din Tai Fung (I always seem to end up there). I eat there way too much and [...]

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Chinese Tiger Shuffle

Traditional lion dances are cool enough, but add in LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem and a whole new dimension of awesome is added (These guys modified the lions’ heads with tiger heads). I’ve seen my share of lion dances before but nothing like this. Combining the traditional with the modern is a creative spin on this [...]

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1911

I want to watch this movie so bad. It stars Jackie Chan and Joan Chen and it’s about the 1911 Xinhai Revolution that overthrew the Qing Empire and started the Republic of China. Interestingly enough, Joan Chen also had a role in The Last Emperor which also featured this revolution but this time she plays [...]

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Oakland Kid Singing Chinese Opera Is Full of Awesome

Now this is something you don’t see everyday. Fifteen-year-old Tyler Thompson from Oakland has been singing in Chinese since kindergarten and is now performing Chinese opera, complete with all the moves. It’s always refreshing to see people embracing cultures other than their own. While many aspects of Chinese culture has been accepted by foreigners (the most [...]

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Chinese Clone Apple Store

Now the Chinese have been known to pirate DVDs and make almost perfect copies of electronics, but this, I really have to say, impressed me. Yes, I know it’s wrong and against the law but you really have to marvel at the attention to detail the designer paid to this Apple Store knockoff. From the [...]

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As American As Chinese Food

Stumbled upon this interesting little video the other day and thought I’d share. A lot of what most Americans think as Chinese food really isn’t Chinese. When I was in Taiwan I never ate (or found places that served) broccoli beef or orange chicken. Chinese food here is different from Chinese food in China, and [...]

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Re-enactment of My Virtual Trip

A little while back I took a virtual trip to Taiwan (Maybe that was a premonition of me actually coming here? Hmmmm). I thought it would be fun if I tried to stop by the places I visited on Google Street View. First stop, Xi Men Ding (西門町). Of course I had to stop by the [...]

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My Virtual Vacation to Taiwan

Ok so I’m dirt poor these days. Times are tough. Every bit of opportunity to save money I take. I try to go to Taiwan about once a year but haven’t gone in a while because of the money situation. It sucks. I miss it. So the other day I decided to take a poor [...]

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