Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌 @wordsfromtaiwan Twitter profile

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

6 months

Great to see in-depth coverage by @guardian on #TaiwanElections , including this solid piece on #Taiwan 's cat warrior @bikhim . Honored to have my humble blog cited 😸🥹

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6 months

Taiwan’s ‘cat warrior’: former US envoy Hsiao Bi-khim hopes to be next vice-president

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

For 2+ yrs, Shih Shui-huan's morning routine consisted of making 2 bento boxes replete w/ the flavors of her hometown, #Tainan . Oddly enough, the bachelorette lived alone in employee lodgings as a Taipei postal worker. She was also severely malnourished—weighing 38kg upon arrest.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

8 months

Kuo Hsueh-hu #郭雪湖 was actually a pioneering gouache painter in #Taiwan who grew up under Japanese colonial rule. "Festival on South Street" is currently part of the #Taipei Fine Arts Museum's collection. Watch a PTS documentary on the beloved 🇹🇼 artist:

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@tongbingxue

8 months

Dihua Street, Taipei, 1930, gouache, by Guo Xuehu. The oldest street in Taipei, known as Centre Street (中街), was constructed during 1850s, and throughout the rest of the 19th century, Dihua Street has been an important centre for commerce in Taiwanese products and produce .

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

Urban greenery — my #Taipei bus driver today has a mobile nursery for avocado seedlings 🌱

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 months

#Taiwan unveils special #postmark for use on May 20, 2024 — the date of @ChingteLai and @bikhim 's presidential inauguration

Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

3 months

#Taiwan President-elect @ChingteLai and VP @bikhim have decided to hold their #inauguration banquet in #Tainan to celebrate the southern city's 400th anniversary. #Formosa Yacht Resort will host Taiwanese and international dignitaries on May 20th.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

1 year

RIP Ju Ming (1938-2023), who took his own life today. A #Taiwanese sculptor whose artistry started with an apprenticeship to an acclaimed Matsu temple carver, Ju was famous for his minimalist sculptures portraying scenes from everyday life. He also painted and practiced Tai Chi.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 months

Earlier, the emcee announced Peter Huang (黃文雄), of "Let me stand up like a #Taiwanese !" fame after a failed attempt on CCK's life and now in his 80s, was among the crowd. UMC founder Robert Tsai (曹興誠) also took the stage to say: "Let's not become a second Hong Kong, ok?"

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

1 year

President @iingwen looking lovingly at a Tatung rice cooker at @yunhaishop is my fave photo from her New York visit, find out more about this #Taiwanese pantry shop in Queens from culinary entrepreneur Lillian Lin on #TaiwanGameChangers , now on YouTube!

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@ghostislandme

1 year

When China banned 🇹🇼 pineapples in 2021 to flex its economic might, food entrepreneur Lillian Lin and her team crowdsourced US$110K to bring 14 tonnes of fresh fruit — about 40,000 pieces packed in a 20-foot container — to the US as part of the global #FreedomPineapples movement.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

1 year

My #Taipei e-bus came decked out in #Pokemon plushies today

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@wordsfromtaiwan

3 months

Nymphia Wind on 🧋: "I obviously came here to represent my country, and I'm not going to do it by putting a flag on my dress. Boba tea is the national drink of #Taiwan . We invented boba tea. Put that in your brain! That was my way of being camp and still representing my country."

Entertainment Weekly

@EW

3 months

In her exclusive first interview after winning 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' Nymphia Wind tells EW she wants Asian people to see hope in her victory, and explains the full significance of her epic boba tea lip-sync on the finale.

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

1 year

#Taipei scooter life

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

2 months

"If you can't love yourself, how you gonna love somebody else?" said President Tsai Ing-wen of #Taiwan in welcoming drag queen #NymphiaWind to the Presidential Office. @66wind99 's outfit was inspired by the endemic yellow water lily (黃蓮花/臺灣萍蓬草):

蔡英文 Tsai Ing-wen

@iingwen

2 months

Delighted to see @66wind99 & fellow queens perform at the Presidential Office today. Nymphia, as the S16 winner of @RuPaulsDragRace , is now a queen for the world. We're all looking forward to you lighting up the stage with #Taiwanese pride at our pavilion at the Paris Olympics.

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

1 year

The widow of late artist Ouyang Chien-hua (1927-2011) has donated 12 illustrations to the National Human Rights Museum. The couple first fell in love on Green Island as political prisoners. Their aim is to preserve the history of what transpired under martial law in #Taiwan .

Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

4 years

#Taiwan 's National #HumanRights Museum releases third volume of its serial publication "Facing the Sun (向光)," themed on #WhiteTerror abuses that targeted #women ahead of #HumanRightsDay .

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

8 months

😸 Her father was an adopted 🇹🇼 reverend who was raised by Christian parents, for his birth father had to give the 2-year-old up for adoption after his wife died. Her mother came from #Mayflower descendants. Fun facts about #Taiwan 's cat warrior @bikhim :

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

1 year

The number of #WhiteTerror victim names etched on #Taiwan 's Human Rights Memorial will be updated from 8,088 to 17,941. The site was first unveiled at the 2015 launch of the National Human Rights Museum; more victims have been identified since. Full list:

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

Shih Ju-chen spent 17 years behind a brick wall inside a firewood shack. The secret chamber was just as wide as his shoulders, so he could lay or sit, but never stand. Accompanying him was a chamber pot and a kerosene lamp too risky to use at night—it was lit during daytime only.

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

2 months

Crowd count at 15k now

Brian Hioe 丘琦欣

@brianhioe

2 months

MC claiming 12,000 are outside of the legislature as part of the demonstration despite the rain

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

In other food news, #Taiwan now has #luwei vending machines. This one at Shilin night market offers marinated duck tongue and feet, chicken hearts, quail eggs, pressed tofu, kungfu tofu, kelp, and boiled peanuts 👀

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

2 months

"For the 1st time in the history of #Taiwan 's presidential inauguration ceremony, female ushers will be wearing #pants ." The black, white, and milk-tea colored fabrics were made from recycled plastic bottles in line with the theme "Weaving Taiwan together; progressing democracy."

Radio Taiwan International

@RadioTaiwan_Eng

2 months

The 16th #Taiwan presidential inauguration ceremony uniforms have been revealed, featuring women's pants for the first time in history. Read more:

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 months

"Before I became a K-pop fan, I was born a #Taiwanese ." Of the 30k who peacefully encircled #Taiwan 's parliament yesterday, the youths led in turnout. They put a political spin on their #fandom energy by handcrafting posters and adapting their lightsticks. #追星之前我是台灣人

Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

2 months

Middle schoolers, high schoolers, university students are steadily showing up after a full day of classes. This heart-shaped sign says: "Vote wisely, and you get to stan your K-pop idols freely. Vote poorly, and you have no choice but to follow Han Kuo-yu 😭."

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

1 year

We have entered the era of #bawan pizza (glutinous meatballs stuffed with pork and bamboo) topped with sweet chili sauce, cilantro, and cheese #Taiwan

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

This #WhiteTerror feature is based on: Read the de-classified military documents from #Taiwan 's Transitional Justice Commission, another gem of a #TaiwanResources :

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

8 months

Update: #Taipei #Pokemon -themed #bus has seriously leveled up

Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

1 year

My #Taipei e-bus came decked out in #Pokemon plushies today

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

3 years

"Pineapple" #Taiwan , circa 1931.

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

8 months

"My daughter's birth certificate lists a 2nd name next to 美琴—that of her grandmother's. But she opts not to use this non- #Taiwanese name. She wanted a name that would embody her unique background." @bikhim 's #dad on how this cat warrior chose her #name :

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

10 months

Branded #EasyCards are all the rage these days, and some are pretty darn cute/outrageous 😆 #Taiwan 's celebrated train #bento (note how several rice grains stick to the plastic bento cover!)

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

3 years

"The Ambience of #Taiwan " Colonial era postcard envelope dating from 1930 to 1945. #Formosa

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

5 months

Thanks @Harvard_Press 🙏

Harvard University Press

@Harvard_Press

5 months

@wordsfromtaiwan Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We’re updating the country code listing. Our site was pulling code from the International Organization for Standardization country codes:

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

10 months

My #Taipei e-bus was a #Totoro wonderland today 🌰🌱

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

9 months

#Eslite 's largest branch in Asia opened last month at Yulong City in Xindian, #Taipei —an elegant, sprawling eight-level complex housing about 250 luxury and lifestyle brands, restaurants. The #Taiwanese carmaker's mall has great crowd flow design to handle the influx of visitors.

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

4 years

This is a guide to Formosan #mythology encompassing documented #lore and historic testimonies from indigenous cultures, transplanted beliefs (both Han and Japanese), as well as many, many locally sprung and uniquely #Taiwanese creatures, spirits, and deities. 💯 #Taiwan #Formosa

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@wordsfromtaiwan

7 months

Jaw Shaw-kong #趙少康, the KMT vice presidential candidate in the 2024 #TaiwanElection , is also the oldest son of a military official who has witnessed most of the destructive moments that came to define the waning years of #Nationalist China. My primer:

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

1 year

Here are 5 #TaipeiMetro lines as manga characters, re-imagined by artist TaaROO @taro27723 : The orange line is represented by a gangster-inspired personality who looks out for his community and works as a social worker. Cat lover.

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

New ㄅㄆㄇㄈ stamps coming to town (March 2023) #Taiwan

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

1 month

"Mayday can live without Taiwan, but they can't live without China. We can live without Mayday, but we can't live without Taiwan." People in #Taiwan distancing themselves from their childhood idols after the pop group's frontman refers to himself as "Chinese" at Beijing concert.

kyubunnkou

@kyubunnkou

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台灣人在抗爭，這種重要時間你們五月天沒發聲就算了，最差的是在那邊跪舔中國，實在是氣到不想講話了，拜託不要回來了，你們實在令曾經支持過你們的台灣人失望

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

4 years

#Taipei101 will light up with a message of support to all #Taiwanese medical professionals working to curb the #coronavirus on Feb. 5 and 6, from 6.30 to 10pm. "Frontline defenders, thank you for your loving care, and please look after yourselves too. Don't give up, #Taiwan ❤️."

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

3 years

#SmithsonianOpenAccess Map of China with single design error, 1968 The most famous rarity of the Cultural Revolution proclaims "the entire nation is red." But #Taiwan is white, a fact that caused the #stamp 's hasty withdrawal. Very few examples survive.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

5 months

A disability rights lawyer by the name of Chun-Han Chen (陳俊翰), who lived with a hereditary condition known as Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), ran for public office in #Taiwan as a legislative candidate on the Democratic Progressive Party's 2024 election-party list 🧵

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

Ting was able to leave a letter and lock of hair to ex-flame Kuo Chen-chun who was also arrested. She told him when + where to find a certain cigarette box. Kuo spent 22 yrs as a prisoner before release; he buried Ting's hair under a tree at her school, Tainan Girls' Senior High.

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

3 years

"Taiwanese #food vendor" #Taiwan circa the 1930s.

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

11 months

There's a march for #pedestrian rights on AUG 20 in #Taipei calling for 5 major reforms: 1. Update pedestrian infrastructure 2. Revamp driving test 3. Train law enforcement 4. Update traffic laws in line with 3E (education, engineering, enforcement) 5. Mobilize local governments

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

Shih, who was secretly sheltering her wanted brother, evaded suspicion by buying single-household groceries. He spent daytime in the ceiling, and slept below the wood floors at night, according to accounts theorizing the KMT soldiers had little knowledge of Japanese architecture.

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

2 months

Joseph Wu, the longest-serving foreign minister in post-martial law #Taiwan , will step down from his role at @MOFA_Taiwan to head the National Security Council in May. He'll be remembered for his tweets calling out the CCP and celebrating the good food & wine of friendly nations.

外交部 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC (Taiwan) 🇹🇼

@MOFA_Taiwan

7 months

To all the freedom-loving people around the world, I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year! JW

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

Both women were gunned down at Wanhua's Machangding execution grounds on July 24, 1956. Their fabricated crimes were attempting to overthrow the KMT gov through recruitment + sheltering dissidents. Many have stated that their membership were to a fictitious org that never existed

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@wordsfromtaiwan

9 months

Good news for the global pangolin #conservation movement — a new baby pangolin was born last month under the care of #TaipeiZoo , the world's leading expert in pangolin breeding and dietary research. She was fathered by a Formosan #pangolin rescued in 2020.

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

4 years

Beautiful #Wulai ♨️ #Taiwan

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@wordsfromtaiwan

8 months

#Taipei is lovely for evening hikes 🌳💡

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

11 months

In today's #TaiwanPizzas , Domino's has paired up with @HakkaAffairs to launch 2 limited pizza flavors — classic Hakka stir-fry 客家小炒 (bean curds, celery, pork strips) and #Hakka braised pork belly 梅干扣肉 ( #Taiwan hog, fermented mustard greens). Half-n-half is also available.

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

4 years

#Masks of the day 😷 #Taiwan

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

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Matthew Kendrick

@matt__kendrick

2 years

NEW: We asked voters to find Taiwan on a blank map after 56% said they were familiar with the China-Taiwan relationship in a previous survey. Only 34% could identify it, and the share that said they were familiar with the relationship fell to 49%

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@wordsfromtaiwan

3 years

Everyone's favorite peace sign ✌️

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Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

7 months

"President Tsai's PhD was valid and properly awarded by the University," states ICO, the UK's independent body for upholding information rights, on disclosure requests re the Taiwan President's LSE degree and "the subsequent whereabouts of her PHD thesis."

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@wordsfromtaiwan

4 years

To promote #Taiwan 's epidemic prevention policies during the ongoing #coronavirus pandemic, Chunghwa Post is offering a special set of two #stamps featuring the text: "All out against the pandemic; #COVID19 we shall defeat. #TaiwanCanHelp ."

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@wordsfromtaiwan

3 years

Taiwan's oldest natural science museum launches new permanent exhibition -- "Exploring #Taiwan ," on the cultural and nature stories of our land.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

Happy #LanternFestival from #Taipei ! 🐯✨

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

Who's having #hotpot for #Christmas ? 🌽🥟🥬🌶️🍥💚 Found a 30-year-old supermarket dedicated to #vegetarian #Taiwanese food! (Yes, those are #vegan prawns and sea cucumbers; not-pictured, a plant-based imitation softshell turtle...)

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@wordsfromtaiwan

1 year

🕊️ #Taiwanese fashionista Hsu Sho-er, one half of the silver-haired duo who ran a laundrette in #Taichung and modeled clothes that were never picked up by customers, passed away yesterday, aged 87.

Chris Horton 何貴森

@heguisen

4 years

The story of viral Instagram models Chang Wan-ji & Hsu Sho-er is so pure. Was a joy to interview them and their grandson, Reef, who helps behind the scenes. A super sweet Taiwanese family sharing love with the world. (Great photos, as always, by @Anrizzy )

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

Pro-democracy Taiwanese activist #NylonCheng died by self-immolation in 1989. His life was spent in pursuit of #FreedomOfSpeech . A reproduction of the #FreedomEraWeekly editorial headquarters that he founded and died in, now stands within Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

#Taiwan 's plant-based culinary diversity is a #vegetarian 's dream spread (that's #vegan squid made from coconut meat and drizzled with Taiwanese five-flavor seafood sauce!) 🌴🥥 #TaiwanIsOpen 🥢

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@wordsfromtaiwan

8 months

#SushiExpress is a Taiwanese conveyor-belt sushi brand. Its new #Taiwan -style special menu offers traditional roadside banquet dishes with a twist, such as oyster omelet, roast corn, basil conch, black pepper beef, sous vide chicken with pickled peppers, and bubble tea #sushi 🧋🍣

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@wordsfromtaiwan

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W/ plans to peacefully gather around the #Taiwanese parliament again June 19-21, supporters of the #BluebirdMovement against the recent legislative proceedings in #Taiwan are braving rain & humidity to make their demands heard: "How dare you roll back our #democracy , Kuomintang?"

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@wordsfromtaiwan

3 years

"Woman with tattooed face smoking pipe" #Taiwan circa 1960s.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

9 months

Stoked to have seen the vivid and intricate #plushie animals and #birbs by artist @icecream80810 (she specializes in #Taiwanese endemic species!) at the 25th #Taipei International Birdwatching Fair at Guandu Nature Park 🪶

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

Did you know that #TaipeiMetro has bespoke #stamps for each MRT station? 🟥Tamsui-Xinyi: #Tamsui stamp, based on "the reconstructed relics of Taiwan's long-ago Dutch colonists" #Xinbeitou stamp draws from "its history as a resort area… when #Taiwan was under Japanese rule"

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@wordsfromtaiwan

3 years

#SEQALU fans, here's a primer to the 1867 Rover Incident that reflects the diverse backdrop of #Taiwan , or #Formosa as it was known by the world in the 1800s, involving US, British, Qing, Formosan (Han, Hakka, Indigenous, "half-castes") traders, diplomats, even the US President.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

Shih wrote 68 letters to her sister and mother in Tainan when she wasn't working at the prison's sewing factory. Her last letter delivered 2 days before their execution didn't read like a will; she asked for two yards of patterned fabric so she could make Ting's kid a new dress.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

Her brother was never found. It is said that Shih Chih-cheng (1st row, 1st right) froze in the ceiling while the secret police came to take his sister away (she had a pre-arrangement w/ colleague to find him an escape car). He was last seen walking down Taipei's Zhongshan N. Road

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@wordsfromtaiwan

3 years

"Color #map of #Taiwan with scenes of Japanese life on the island" Published by Osaka Commercial Shipping in the 1900s.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

But a spurred admirer repeatedly tried to get her friend in trouble. Ting Yao-tiao cautioned Shih re her suitor's unsavory character, and in return, he reported Ting's book collection — but his letters were intercepted by Ting's friend Wu Li-shui, who worked at the postal office.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

4 years

The National Museum of #Taiwan #Literature has created a #boardgame as an educational tool for teaching #WhiteTerror (1949-1992) history through a literary vantage. #Taiwan

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@wordsfromtaiwan

4 years

#Taiwan #Railways Administration unveils new visual identity for its famous #train #bentos . #Logo re-branding spearheaded by the Taiwan #Design Research Institute.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

But when Wu was implicated himself, he admitted to burning those letters and surrendered Shih and Ting's names upon being tortured. They were imprisoned from 1954 to 1956 at Qingdao E. Road (today's Taipei #Sheraton )—Ting gave birth behind bars (the prison had a #daycare center).

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@wordsfromtaiwan

3 months

#Taiwan President-elect @ChingteLai and VP @bikhim have decided to hold their #inauguration banquet in #Tainan to celebrate the southern city's 400th anniversary. #Formosa Yacht Resort will host Taiwanese and international dignitaries on May 20th.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

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🐕🐈‍⬛🐕🐈‍⬛🐕🐈‍⬛ #Stamps commemorating the May 20, 2024 inauguration of President @ChingteLai and VP @bikhim "explore how #Taiwan connects to the world through #democracy and freedom, technological innovation, medical rescue work, and cultural creativity."

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@wordsfromtaiwan

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"Formosan Chinese girl slicing pith into paper in Taihoku, #Taiwan " She tends to a long strip of pith with a long stick. In the background, tall stacks and bundles of an unidentified material can be seen.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

3 months

Pizza Hut #Taiwan markets its cheese-stuffed, crust-only pizza with a guide to #Taiwanese pizza snakes — add cilantro for Formosan bamboo viper, extra cheese for Burmese python, or pair with a pizza turtle to complete the Taiwanese habu.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

4 years

#Taiwan 's National #HumanRights Museum releases third volume of its serial publication "Facing the Sun (向光)," themed on #WhiteTerror abuses that targeted #women ahead of #HumanRightsDay .

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

Beautiful #bird #stamps exhibition running until Oct. 16 at #Taiwan 's Postal Museum (CKS Memorial Hall MRT)

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@wordsfromtaiwan

10 months

☀️ One of my favorite things about living in #Taipei is that the mountains are always just a quick bus/metro ride away. #Hiking trails like this one (Xianjiyan Trail, Wenshan) are well-maintained, used frequently by old-timer hikers, and decked w/ #temples replete with character.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

3 years

"Men reading newspapers posted along #Taipei sidewalk" #Taiwan . Between 1955 and 1956.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

1 year

The award for investigative reporting in Mandarin goes to @tw_reporter_org for "its reportage on human trafficking of African students by #Taiwanese universities. The journalists uncovered a criminal network that led to the Taiwanese gov pressing charges against the offenders."

Human Rights Watch

@hrw

1 year

📣 We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2023 Human Rights Press Awards! Winners include reporting on: Covid in Hong Kong, the Myanmar military’s abuses against the Rohingya, and human trafficking of African students by Taiwanese universities️.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

3 years

Hi #TaiwanTwitter ! Here is my first #podcast project as an intern with @ghostislandme — a politically charged absurdist skit set in the year of 2049. It is my tribute to this #IslandOfResilience and a cheeky call to #DefendDemocracy 💪 🎧 #WhereIsTaiwan ??

13. The Missing Case of Taiwan (Min)

Listen to this episode from 小鬼登島 In Training on Spotify. It’s 2049, and Taiwan has disappeared. The first dawn of this new year brings ominous tidings from the Taiwan Strait — #WhereIsTaiwan. Unravel...

open.spotify.com

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@wordsfromtaiwan

4 years

A #Taiwanese #temple offered up #Pokemon -themed dough figurines as #GhostMonth offerings This temple 👉

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

#Taiwan 's Napoli food chain is now offering Lao Gan Ma chicken pizza 🌶️

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

Starting Nov 1, #Taipei Metro will offer menstrual products for free at 20 MRT stations: #EndPeriodStigma #ItsAboutBloodyTime

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@wordsfromtaiwan

3 months

🕊️ #Taiwan has formally declared MAY 19 as WHITE TERROR MEMORIAL DAY (白色恐怖記憶日) in memory of those who were persecuted under martial law over a period of 43 years that started on May 19, 1949 and ended in 1992. The memorial day will remain a work day.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

3 years

"Front of the Taichu [Taichung] Station" 1920 postcard. #Taiwan

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@wordsfromtaiwan

18 days

This #protest sign says: "Legislators who are CCP cronies should have the guts to ask for their paychecks from China, and be paid in RMB, instead of relying on #Taiwanese taxpayers and our New Taiwan Dollars."

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

Thanks everyone! I've filed the story on Medium with source links and proper credits ^^/

Portraits of White Terror: Shih Shui-huan (1926–1956)

For 2.5 years, Shih Shui-huan’s (施水環) morning routine consisted of making 2 bento boxes replete with the flavors of her hometown, Tainan…

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@wordsfromtaiwan

3 years

"Shimizu [Qingshui] Cliffs" 1941 photographic print of Qingshui Cliff on the Suao- #Hualien (Suhua) Highway. The schist-marble cliff is over 1,000 meters high and drops almost vertically into the Pacific. #Taiwan

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@wordsfromtaiwan

1 year

#Taiwanese convenience stores upping their #vegetarian game: this 7-11 dedicated a whole corner to plant-based versions of popular local + western snacks, including beef noodles, sausages, bawan (stuffed glutinous meatballs), and a grand variety of vegan-friendly instant noodles.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 months

China is conducting military exercises to intimidate #Taiwan today, but the #Taiwanese are more preoccupied with making the perfect sign for tomorrow's civil protest in Taipei calling out China-leaning lawmakers for undermining Taiwan's democracy. "NO MORE DEMOCRACY=NO MORE BL"

主委🖤🩶🤍💜

@baron_hq

2 months

準備了幾款標語手板，如果你也準備上街頭，還沒有又低調又酷的標語，請大啊挑看選看🐱✨ - 為了民主、為了你看本子的自由，講到爛掉的口號跟最新的呀咧呀咧，從青島東上最凶的到最油的任君挑選！排版：宇宙ㄣㄣ部分文案：我、哈娜老師

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@wordsfromtaiwan

3 years

Fine early #map of #Formosa and the Pescadore Islands (Penghu), published in Leiden circa 1720s. Oriented with east at the top and shows extensive sounding and nautical details. There are very few independent maps of Taiwan, this being one of the earliest.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

4 years

#Taiwan CDC invokes traditional #mythology in its public #health campaigns: enterovirus ("always on the lookout for kids"), bubonic plague (the little "ghost" mouse bride), viral gastroenteritis (loo ghouls), and dengue fever (“nowhere for you to run") 😂

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@wordsfromtaiwan

7 months

Coming in Jan! ㄙfor Sanxia, New Taipei🥐 一 for Yilan🍊 ㄨfor Wenshan, Taipei🦒 ㄩfor Yuchi, Nantou🚵 ㄚfor Alishan🌸 ㄛfor Zhuolan, Miaoli🍇 ㄜfor Emei, Hsinchu🌉 ㄝfor Qieding, Kaohsiung (Black-faced Spoonbill) ㄞfor Baisha, Penghu (Jibei) ㄟfor Beinan, Taitung (sugar apple)

Min Chao 🍍🥭🍌

@wordsfromtaiwan

11 months

Second set of #zhuyin stamps set to debut this Nov! #Taiwan

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@wordsfromtaiwan

3 years

Commemorative #stamps in memory of the late #MrDemocracy Lee Teng-hui to be released July 30, the date of his passing last year. The backgrounds have largely been left blank in deference to the character "hui 輝," or "splendorous light," in Lee's name.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

3 years

"Eight Taiwanese women in silk gowns" 1923 postcard. #Taiwan

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@wordsfromtaiwan

4 years

Did you know that the earliest financial institutions in #Taiwan were so-called "merchant houses (媽振館)" that handled loans and currency exchanges for #Taiwanese #tea traders and international buyers? The term "媽振" is derived from the English word "merchant" during the 1860s.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

1 year

🍻 "a betel nut treat that won't stain your lips" — #Taiwanese brewery Taihu unveils betel nut IPA

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@wordsfromtaiwan

3 years

1750 map of #Taiwan published by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, Royal Hydrographer to the King of France. One of the earliest obtainable maps to focus on #Formosa , based upon Jesuit sources. Note along the coastline indicates little is known about the east coast.

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@wordsfromtaiwan

2 years

Sunset in #Taipei 🌄🌇

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