Taiwan has been through many cycles of lotto mania in a history which dates back to the early 1950s. The biggest problem was “大家樂” Ta-chia-le (‘Everybody Happy’) craze that happened around 1978’ when the government issued lottery shut down. People turned the mania to the underground trade. This illegal gambling got so big influence on people’s everyday lives through their home to office. Most people believed that the numbers would be seen in every natural phenomenon. Therefore they prayed in every possible temples and even prayed to the rocks, trees, and even any objects. This corruption made people broke and criminal increased.
The Taiwan lottery business was back in 1999 to now issued by different banks. For now, most people in Taiwan play the lottery as a game, but still some people become addicted to it as a gambling. Or, you can have a chance to win NT$2 million (about US$600000) but cost nothing just by getting a recept on every purchase that we called “Receipt Lottery”.
Here are the real numbers in the real objects you can find, not only in your imagination!
More information of Taiwanese lottery here.
Betel nut is a common crop in Taiwan for chewing, it is similar to a chewing tobacco like Skoals or Redman. Betel nut is wrapped in a betal leaf and usually been seen in Taiwan and sold by we called betel nut beauty (檳榔西施: bīnláng xīshī) along roadsides.
Betel nut is called “Taiwanese chewing gun” in Taiwan, however betel nut may cause oral cancer. The study reveals that oral cancer occupied the 4-5th ranks according the Taiwan caner death reasons, and that was in terms of Taiwanese habit of chewing betel nut. So how about trying betel nut chewing gun with vitamin supplement! More fresh, more health.
Though betel nuts are chewed in many regions of the Asia-Pacific, the betel nut beauty phenomenon is distinctly Taiwanese. Also betel nut beauty is as icons of Taiwanese culture and appear frequently in art, film, and even betel nut beauty figures from vending machines.
This is the improvement on the way people mix drink. A modular beverage cans is the solution for doing that without a cup.
In Taiwan, the market target of energy drink is blue-collar workers, they drink a lot because of their overtime working. So the energy drink makes them keep physical strengh, however that may cause overdose as well. Whisibh is the energy drink with the best market penetration in Taiwan and becomes the No.1 energy drink which has penetrated the blue-collar workes by series of TV commercials (1)(2)(3)(4) from 1980’. Usually, people like to mix one or two other drinks with energy drink to make it has diverse tastes. Sometimes you will see workers mix it with coffee or with coconut milk, soda or any other possible drink you want to fill. Some grocery stores offer what we called “energy set” which contains a bottle of Whisibh, cigarette and a small bag of betel or a bottle of Whisibh and two cans of soda.
The subculture of Taiwanese blue-collar workers is one of the most local and representive culture in Taiwan. However this group was the achievement in early industry in 70’ Taiwan but they are with lower social status in Taiwanese society nowadays. Even the situation and economic conditoin is not that good, they are respectable and honorable to me. So they deserve better.
The question “Have you eaten yet?” (呷飽沒) is a common salutation in Taiwanese dialects and is used as a greeting when initiating conversation. The phrase is believed to stem from times of material scarcity, when asking someone if he had eaten was an inquiry into his state of being and thus conveyed caring and good will, as if saying, “I hope you are not enduring hunger and have had a meal.”———-http://www.culture.tw/
This T-shirt has a stomach image on the front and the decals of food images with velcro are used to stuck on the shirt. It’s designed for forigners to answer the qusetion “Have you eaten yet?” asked by the locals.
How people release their pressure?
You may meet someone you don’t like in workplace or you may hate someone because of something bad, and you really want to do something mean to him or her.
However, most Taiwanese don’t express the feelings in direct ways based on their Chinese background. Chinese are used to repress their emotions of love or hate. So here is the solution for them to release you anger by putting your ass in their face.
Also, In Taiwan, especially in the realm of politics. You will see how people involved in political TV talk shows every night, and how people like or hate a political party and a single politican. This furniture piece gives you the opportunity to make you better. You can download and print the pixel image of a politican’s portrait out, and place it in the bottom of the box of the seat, then fill it with colored blocks to figure the look of a person.
Hope that helps.
Politics is a very sensitive issue in Taiwan based on the controversy history of Taiwan. Nowadays, the relationship with the People’s Republic of China and the related issues of Taiwan independence and Chinese reunification continue to dominate Taiwanese politics. Taiwanese are keen to join political activities so bad to speak their position and point of view, and sometimes play it as a show.
People wearing the customed shirt (printed as appeals, protest or support) parade through the city for a weekend or congregate in a location for a whole week. To see the motion to depose the president Chen Shui-bian in 2006. People wearing red cloth who called “Red T-shirt Army” congregate in main Taipei. Few days after, another demonstration in support of the president was put on in another area in Taipei.
Therefore, some conflict were provoked when one man bumped into a group with an opposite political position from him. Under that circumstance, you may feel scared and embarrassed if you are just off the demonstration and you have to walk home with your “wrong”color T-shirt passing another demonstration people with an opposing political view from you. Here is a solution for you to protect yourself from getting hurt. To zip up to change the graphic on your T-shirt.
see the blog: That’s Impossible! Politics from Taiwan
In Taiwanese traditional funeral ceremony, people burn paper offerings for their ancestors and for deceased family members. At local supermarket you can buy so called “hell money”(another kind) issued by ‘the hell bank corporation’. Also you can find other items of clothing and luxury goods such as televisions and mobile phones made of paper in some particular stores. People believe that deceased people enable spend “hell money” and use every paper items burned by people alive, so they can live better lives in the afterlife.
In the past, you will see some simple paper dolls as kids(servant) to serve the people who have passed away, and traditional paper house that’s for the dead to live in. Nowadays, the paper offerings funeral industry is blooming even in economical depression, peopel can buy everything they want to burn in market (or customize it). Not only the basic paper products you can find in online shop, but much creative items such as iphone, New BMW X6, Wii, ps3, cellphone and digital camera, customatics, massage chair, golden watch, laptop, bali villa, even the gun?! for the mafia I think….
Anyway I will say tha is dedicate paper art operated as a fashion/ modern industry. Beyond that, you can also print and fold paper offerings by yourself.
Today people can do everything via internet serivice such as the ancestor worship, worship guide, throw bamboo rope by wii and draw divination lots on web, To send the gift to people in heaven by Gmail(Godmail), and burn it on web! That’s much eco-friendly.
Let’s think a new way to show your love to the family members in heaven.
What’s Taiwanese doing in the night? According to the latest statistics from Taiwan tourism bureau, nightmarket is the main attraction you must see for tourists to visit Taiwan in recent years, even surmount Taipei101. There are 300 nightmarkets around Taiwan, each night market having its own traditions and characteristics! It’s a core of local culture and cuisine of Taiwan. The local sidewalk vendors begin setting up little booths around 4 p.m, and people crowd to walk and eat along the narrow street at the peak time between 8 to 11 or later. Not only classic street snacks, but you’ll find everything you need, kitchen wares, clothing, accessories, plush toys, ,you name it. Also to give it a try- the world’s most unusual food in the world ranked by www.virtualtourist.com- pig’s blood cake! or other “strange” snacks you may think.
Is any better way to make you feel comfortable and easy to enjoy everything in a nightmarket especially when and you are keen to play an arcade game machine, with a tomato stick, a bag of steamed buns, and a cup of bubble tea in your hands? Here is a solution for you while your nightmarket snack hunt!
Do you think you have enough hands when enjoy your time in Taiwan’s market?
basketball trash bag
with trash
throwing skill
How to dispose the waste in Taiwan?
Do you think that’s a piece of cake to dispose the garbage in Taiwan? NO, You need to practice! and…..you need this!
Compared with the other plastic shopping bags, don’t you think the existing trash bag a little bit boring? Can you imagine how fun it is if the city-approved trash bags would be like this! A basketball trash bag!
To think of the trash things. The piles of trash might be sculptures, and the interaction between citizens and trunk is also interesting. In Aug 2009 during the World Games in Kaohsung Taiwan, Mayor of Kaohsiung, Ms. Chen Ju, used garbage trucks as town publicity under a limited funds. In this vedio, she is anouncing and inviting citizens to watch the games in World Games 2009.
People outsde Taiwan said that might be a strange things to experience dumping the trash in Taiwan. It’s like a ceremony, people get together at a given time with a bag of trash, standing at the side of the road, then the trash truck comes with classic music “Für Elise,” or “The Maiden’s Prayer” , and people moving along with the slight track of the truck to throw the bags into the garbage truck.
Sometimes, if you get late at the given time, you have to race with the garbage truck with your trash bag. Do that alone or with your partners. To Keep the same speed with truck, and suddenly, give it a shot, a nice shot! Trust me, you don’t want to pick it up and to do that again if you failed!
So, to be a professional trash throwers! You can be the best shotter in the field of disposal.
