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Has TAIPEI developed that COOL FACTOR much like Tokyo & Seoul?
When I view the neon-lit streets, alleys, and nightmarkets of Taipei on YouTube, it certainly seems it has. What do others think?
I was in Taipei years ago, and I didn't see it then, but I was also in Seoul for years as it transformed into something very cool. I kind of suspect Taipei is either on that same path, or has already arrived.
LOL. I have quite a few Taiwanese friends. Taiwan cool? I wouldn't hold my breathe. Now granted, I've only been in the airport (we always fly Eva Air from Seattle to Taiwan to Thailand) and I've been in this airport a dozen times.
Taiwan has this kind of frumpy, nerdy, conservative vibe going on. My Taiwanese friends would tend to agree.
Yeah, I've heard that Taiwan is more a tea culture. Drinking is way less interesting in Taipei, or so I've heard.
I go for drinks fairly frequently (well, at least before the lockdown) and there are definitely a lot of bars popping up these days.
Tea and coffee are both very popular too. Taipei frequently appears on those "best coffee cities" clickbait travel articles. I don't know how legit they are though as I don't drink coffee.
Taiwanese are much more subdued when it comes to that.
Yeah, Chinese cultures have less drinking than Japanese and South Koreans , also Southern Chinese drink less than northern Chinese.
Shops and vending machines selling tea are everywehere in Taiwan. Different types of tea are popular in Taiwan, including various Chinese tea and other teas with milk. Tea is grown locally, more expensive than tea grown in mainland China but cheaper than Japanese tea , but most coffee are imported.
Taiwan and Hainan are unique in east Asia with a wide selection of tropical fruits.
To be fair Taipei is one of the few great first world cities in Asia with personal democratic freedoms, so that already puts it in very rare company - only Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore and Hong Kong could really claim to be peers in that respect, and Hong Kong is rapidly losing its status. I kind of feel like in today's environment, any Western educated person who is fluent in Chinese would probably find Taipei their best or second best choice of city in east Asia.
To be fair Taipei is one of the few great first world cities in Asia with personal democratic freedoms, so that already puts it in very rare company - only Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore and Hong Kong could really claim to be peers in that respect, and Hong Kong is rapidly losing its status. I kind of feel like in today's environment, any Western educated person who is fluent in Chinese would probably find Taipei their best or second best choice of city in east Asia.
Singapore barely has any democratic freedoms. Taipei sticks out like a sore thumb in Asia in democratic practices, LGBT rights, women's rights and gay-friendliness. I am gay myself and I see gay men and lesbians everywhere all the time. On those levels there's no peers in Asia except Tel Aviv, which is practically Europe.
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