Getting Ready Soon after our festival tickets, flights, and hotels were booked, the girls of the group going to EDC went shopping for daisies, rhinestones, and beads to make costumes and kandi. We had been excitedly looking up outfit references and planning our own. Dressing for a rave is sort of like dressing for Halloween: […]
I had heard stories before that the supposed best coffee in the world is made out of coffee beans eaten and then pooped out by a weasel/cat-like creature. I immediately wrinkled and nose and said there was no way I was drinking anything derived from poop no matter how good it’s claimed to taste. However, […]
The National Palace Museum is a museum of antiques from the Forbidden City nestled in the lush forests of Shilin District in Taipei. The museum was first established in 1925 at the Forbidden City after the expulsion of the last emperor of China and consists of valuable items from the Chinese imperial family. A large portion […]
I hate that this is a topic that requires its own post but despite how far women’s rights have come in the past century, we still have a long way to go. I also hate that, before I plan a new travel destination, I have to Google “Is ____________ safe for solo female travelers?” But […]
I had barely gotten back from a month-long whirlwind tour of China when I found myself on a flight to Los Angeles. These would be my first memories of the city I was born in as an adult. Sure, my family did the customary trip to Disneyland when I was a kid but it’s simply […]
Living with Needle Butt is both and blessing and a curse. It’s mid-morning, late-March and the early spring sun is wavering behind scattered clouds, shifting the light in my living room between shade and sunlight. My hands are shaking. I just typed in my credit card details and, after hovering my mouse arrow over the large bright blue […]
Maokong, literally meaning ‘cat empty’, sits on the southern edge of the Taipei basin and is widely known as the most scenic spot in the city to drink quality, locally-farmed tea. Maokong used to be inhabited by many tea farmers who created various footpaths to transport tea to the city. However, during a period of decline, many of […]
For some strange reason that I have yet to figure out, Asian people are obsessed with making poop cute. You’ve seen it: the popular poop emoji with the smiley face, poop plushies, poop keychains, poop stickers, poop logos, poop anything that goes in Asia (and anything goes in Asia). In Taiwan, they take this to […]
Macau is often compared to Vegas and called the Vegas of Asia. With it’s multitude of mega-casinos towering in the hot sun and shooting beams of light into the sky at night, it’s easy to see what people would think so. However, if you go to Macau under the assumption that it is indeed like Vegas […]
Needle Butt, or 屁股長針 (pì gu zhang zhen) is a Chinese saying literally translated to “needles growing out of one’s butt.” This means that, due to the prickle of all the needles on the butt, the sufferer is unable to sit still for long periods of time because…well…it’s uncomfortable. I’m not sure exactly where my […]