The Land Where It’s Already Tomorrow, Chapter 28: Mongolian Feasting, The Five-Dollar Bill, Quick and Dirty Service, Coming Up for Winter Vacation
January 22nd 2007 I’m posting this week’s entry a bit early, because (with Winter Vacation coming up) we will be in Taipei over the weekend. We east-coasters will be very busy in the big city, and we are especially looking forward to a Mongolian barbecue. You pick out from a wide variety of meat, fish, seafood, and vegetables (by the way, the alternate spelling of “pick out” is with a “g” instead of a
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In 1895, military defeat forced China to cede Taiwan to Japan. Taiwan reverted to Chinese control after World War II. Following the Communist victory on the mainland in 1949, 2 million Nationalists fled to Taiwan and established a government using th... ... read more 
