Pai Su-Yu is my Chinese Name that I use sometimes to sign my Articles.
Taipei has taken center-stage as a cultural cuisine capital worthy of international acclaim. Even the inaugural Michelin Guide Taipei 2018 will attest to this. Throughout Taipei city, a wide range of rich gastronomic surprises await those whose culinary sense of discovery is open to explore new cultural cuisines.
The Red Room was created from a conversation between Ping Chu and Ayesha Mehta, its co-founders. Good ideas materialize quickly here in Taiwan and in 2009, these like-minded people and their friends gathered at the Aveda Learning Kitchen for the first “official” Red Room gathering. Each person brought wine or something to add to the
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Dozens of Taipei dragon boat teams have gathered for months along the Tamsui and Xindian rivers, practicing for the 2017 Dragon Boat Festival, an ancient celebration that ignites passion and enthusiasm across all age groups. Lucky charms and sachets abound.
Kite season in Taiwan usually gets underway at the beginning of April. However, with all the mild, sunny days that Taipei has been having so far this winter, people are heading to open spaces such as the plaza adjoining the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, to fly kites. On a recent visit there, friends and I counted five kites flying high in the sky. They were magnificent to watch as they danced and bobbed in the gusts of wind.
Pei Pei Tang: Environment advocate and community builder. Passionate about protecting Taiwan’s natural areas, she leads “clean-up Taiwan” projects, engaging friends and strangers to tackle beach trash and raise awareness of ocean pollution. Responding to storms, she clears blocked roadways for safe travel. Generous supporter of Community Services Center’s mission to connect local and international
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Each year in Taiwan, as the first day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar draws near, ghosts are on everyone’s mid. For it is on this day that the gates of Hell are opened and hordes of hungry ghosts rush forth to eat, drink and collect “ghost money” from the living.
There are many legends associated with the zodiac dragon, the mightiest of all the zodiac mythical creatures. Dragons have long been associated with Chinese history and culture, where they are the symbols of good fortune and auspicious power. The classic dragon has the head of an ox, adeer’s antlers, the mane of a horse, the body of a snake, the claws of an eagle and the tail of a fish.
The Women in Conversation organizers (Sue Babcock, Constance, Chao, Rachel Coupaud, Zee Dlamini, Prashantha Lachanna, Bunny Pacheco and Gabriele Seewald) created something extraordinary. Their conference was professionally executed by the selection of speakers addressing issues women face in the areas of business, finance, economics, beauty and health, and their deep personal connection with these issues.
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