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Taipei, National Palace Museum *Part 2*

3 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Brickster

Jadeite cabbage and meat-shaped stone Long visitors' queues are waiting in front of the vitrines of two showpieces artfully carved from gemstones. Two well camouflaged locusts sit on a piece of jade carved in the shape of a cabbage head. The partly...

Taipei, National Palace Museum *Part 1*

29 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Brickster

Treasury of Chinese Culture The world's largest and most valuable collection of Chinese artworks can be found not in China, but in Taiwan. The National Palace Museum in the north of Taipei has around 700,000 finds and artifacts, only a fraction of wh...

Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei

23 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Brickster

A short historical review. After the Japanese invasion in Korea, which was allied with China, the Chinese-Japanese war began in 1894. China suffered a defeat and had to cede Taiwan to Japan. Until 1945, i.e. for 50 years, the Japanese flag blew over...

Traveling in China

10 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Stat1c

Hong KongHong Kong is unexpectedly green, with many routes that can be done on the islands and a walk from which you can watch daily, from 8 pm, a 10 minute light show. TaipeiThe surprise of the holiday was Taipei, a city with few tourists, many beau...

Off-Beat Tourist Spot: A PX Supermarket 全聯福利中心 Chyuanlian Fwulih Jongshin

5 Mar 2019 2 minute read 0 comments MaaDawCG

Contents of This Post What is PX Mart?; Why should tourists go there?; Caramel-flavored drinking yogurt; Label notes; Explanation of GR Tonal Spelling What Does the Name Mean? The somewhat oddly named PX Marts that one sees all over Taiwan are a supe...