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China, Palau, Japan, Taiwan

I'm back in CA at last, getting ready for the kickoff crunch, so to speak. For some reason i STILL have lots of things to take care of here, just like when i was in Taiwan... but first some notes about my trip ;)

I spent a few days in China visiting dad's factory, trying to get an broad overview of the operations while i still can. In the end I'm not sure how much I actually learned about the business, but i took some over-production samples back to the states to see what i can do with them... we'll see =)

My new year weekend was spent in Palau with family and my cousins' family. We spent the days snorkling around sunken warship, coral reefs, tropical fish (they ate bread out of our hands XD), and jellyfish; at night we played cards and watched taiwan new years program on TV =p. It was a great fun! I will be sure to go back there once i get a scuba license =D

I went to Okinawa and Tokyo for 2.5 days each with family and yet another cousin's family. The last time i visited japan was 15 years ago and i didn't remember very many things. The weather was miserable, but visiting cousin i haven't seen for 10 years was pretty exciting. We went to the newly remodeled aquarium with my nieces, featuring the largest underwater observation window in the world. Everything (well ok, many things) in that aquarium is super-sized, everything from huge manta rays and whale sharks to giant lobsters and hermit crabs... and i've really been to alot of aquariums. Did mostly shopping in Tokyo... it was fun walking around akiba, jiyou ga oka and shinjuku while catching up with t.

W finally came to visit a week before i return to CA =) Went to the usual spots like 9fan and danshui and baitou... we went to the miniature museum in Taipei (which was great) and bought this (the 2nd one) model kit in case i don't have enough things to do back in Cali ^^;; and we had some awesome Tonkatsu dinner =) The rest of time in Taiwan was spent taking golf lessons, attending seminars, visiting relatives, hanging out with friends, going to the acupuncturist, making photobook and before i knew it 7 weeks had flied by.


ohoh almost forgot the mention all the interesting food i tried during my trip. I tried the following food for the first time- in china: bee larvae(interesting, but i think it'd taste better if i didn't know what they were =p), blowfish (chewy... this was an non-poisonous species, supposedly), 拉尿蝦 (some sort of lobster like shrimp, pretty good); in Palau: bat soup (i ate some bat too... taste like tasteless chicken); in Japan: fancy tofu cuisine, real okonomiaki, rice cake pancake thingy (forgot the japanese name for it).

yay.

Labels: travel

posted by wooden @ 5:36 PM