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... it felt like university all over again! Because of the heavy rains today, we stuck close to the hotel to have a mid-morning snack, and ended up back at Wan's. Ordering here was quite the task, as while they did have an English menu, the order form was only in Chinese, forcing us to cross reference the menu and form. Items were numbered, but not in the same order on both the menu and form, and took forever to locate items on the form - it ended up being easiest to search items line-by-line, looking for matching prices, and then comparing the corresponding Chinese characters.
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 
