Buddhist temple

night market food and extreme humidity

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August 7th 2006
Today is our last full day in Taiwan. We stayed 2 nights in Hsinchu, a large town SW of Taipei, where Wendy's aunt's husband is from. Mostly, we've just been laying around in the dense humidity and eating really well. In Hsinchu, I had an amazing traditional Chinese dinner at the inlaw's home. It was a group effort by the grandmother, her daughter-in-law, and the Vietnamese maid. There were about ... read more

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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