Rose and Ron Krumpos in Taiwan

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Taiwan
An outdoor Mongolian barbecue with a Malaysian couple in Taipei
Rose got passes on Northwest for our honeymoon to Tokyo, Taipei and Hong Kong. We went to Taiwan's Taroko Gorge, a picturesque valley and gorges surrounded by 4,000 ft. mountains. In Taipei we met a young Malaysian couple at Genghis Khan, an outdoor Mongolian barbecue. We selected from a buffet of Oriental vegetables and thinly sliced meats, which were then stir fried on a flat grill. After dinner we attended a Chinese opera.

Except for military air charters, Northwest's American flight attendants only flew to Tokyo; Asian women worked Northwest's flights to Taipei, Manila and Hong Kong. The Chinese couple from Malaysia used English because Taiwanese could not understand their dialect. At a night bazaar we saw some snakes skinned for their meat (supposedly delicious) and a sidewalk dentist displayed the teeth he had pulled.

Imperial Chinese decor of the Grand Hotel dining room
At Hualien we were carried to a banquet in sedan chairs by aborigines of the Ami tribe. In Taipei, we also had dinner at the Grand Hotel...government-owned and built on a hillside sparing no expense. The architecture was similar to the Emperor's palace in Beijing and the restaurant's interior had imperial Chinese decor, with intricate carvings on highly polished woods, accented with rare antiques, and serving court haute cuisine.

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