Taipei China

We were walking around the Yong Kang Street area a couple of months ago on a rainy evening when we stumbled across a fine looking French patisserie called La Douceur .  Even though we only just had dinner, the uber enticing cakes on display lured us in. Judging from the diplomas on the wall I assume the chef learned his or craft in France, where the big shots of pastry making are.  They certainly looked as good as anything I’ve seen in Europe. I’ll stop typing now and just let the...Read Full Story

Man I miss the coffee in Sydney, and I’m not even much of a coffee guy.  After living in the UK and travelling around Europe and America, I have come to appreciate just how good the coffee in Sydney is. What I didn’t realise was that Taiwan has a lot of cafes (not named Starbucks, Dante or Mr Brown, though some of the “gourmet” ice coffee  there isn’t actually too bad) and some of these places take quite a bit of pride in their coffee too. A very popular cafe around the Sun Yat Sen...Read Full Story

Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. This is a guest post by Dwight Turner , founder of In Search of Sanuk . Have you ever had a layover in Taipei, Taiwan? I found out pretty late that I had misread the itinerary and had a 10 hour layover in Taipei, Taiwan. Not happy. I have been in transit in Taipei more than a few times and nothing I could remember made me think being there for that long would be tolerable. Maybe if...Read Full Story

May 24, 2011 | Filed under: Industry News | Posted by: Kristofer Brozio The show must go on, and the next tech show, Computex 2011 is going on May 31st to June 4th. No I won’t be there, but I’d like to be. In the mean time I’ll post anything related of course. Genius, a leading manufacturer of computer peripherals, will be showing off their iF product design award-winning Ring Mouse, as well as several other new products, at Booth #M110, Nangang Exhibition Hall 4F from May 31...Read Full Story

WASHINGTON : China has cancelled or postponed several military exchanges with the United States in protest against a proposed 6.5 billion dollar arms sale to Taiwan, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday. “The Chinese reaction is unfortunate and results in missed opportunities,” said Major Stuart Upton. Upton said senior level visits and exchanges involving humanitarian assistance, and disaster relief issues that had been scheduled to take place before the end of November, were cancelled or...Read Full Story