Tuesday, February 1, 2011

The modern face of old Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung was a central hub in Japan's occupation of Taiwan, but today, while drinking water treatment facilities, the railway and other port facilities are a visible legacy to those colonial days, it is also a vibrant cultural and commercial experience in its own right. 

 

Dai Tian Gong Street Food

The 60-year-old Dai Tian Gong Taoist temple in Hamasen has a courtyard that hosts a night market with excellent street food. It may be a little surprising to see night market operating on temple grounds -- it brings to mind Jesus freaking out at the market that operated on the grounds of his local synagogue -- but the Taoists don?t mind mixing commerce, stinky tofu and their religion.

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Connie Nielsen Cristina Dumitru Daisy Fuentes Dania Ramirez

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