The Daily Bubble Tea

Happy Thanksgiving!  Short list today:

• A Hungry Girl announces the 2009 Best of Taipei Restaurants Readers’ Favorites Poll.
• Sunpluggers on Kaohsiung’s Solar Stadium [HT: Hear in Taiwan].
• James Tung visits the Heritage and Culture Education Center of Taipei City.
• Daniel Carruthers cycles up Xiaogetou.
• Taiwan Flavors visits Jiufen.
• Problems continue for the Taipei Wenhu MRT line -  try changing the name again.
• The Taiwan Link covers Bill Owens’s editorial advocating the abandonment of the Taiwan Relations Act.
• Updates on independence activist Su Beng’s condition.

• Michael Turton with some inspiring thoughts on biking.  He also posts links on Mondays.
• Looking to get a tattoo?  Carrie recommends Needle No. 8 Tattoo Studio.
• Wandering Taiwan wanders through Danshui.
• Craig and Darren with photos from a photowalk along Dihua Street.
• Shu Flies goes to one of the coolest places in Taipei:  Taiwan Storyland.
• Rachel visits Puli.
• Patrick Cowsill gets a credit card.
• Jim does some sightseeing in Taichung.
• Stu hikes to Tapung Fort.
• Mutant Frog covers the recent American beef protests.  One protester has gone so far to say that eating Taiwanese cow dung is safer than American beef.
• INDIAC with the fifth letter on the erosion of justice in Taiwan.
• The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato covers ramifications of opening Taiwanese universities to Chinese students.

EVENT: Basic Aid Music and Art Festival in Puli Nov. 20-22.

• David introduces some great Taiwan blogs.
• Darren gets the Daily Someone back up to date:  Part I and Part II.
• Shu Flies takes a look at plus-size clothing stores in Taipei.
• Neil Wade goes river tracing in Hualian.
• The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato on his experiences with Chinese tourists in Taiwan.
• Letters from Taiwan with three examples of illogical legal cases.
• The Battle of Fisherman’s Wharf looks at how Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands were ceded to Japan.
• Hear in Taiwan with the story of the Hsinchih Trio.
• Wild at Heart covers the expansion of science parks.

EVENTS: Taiwan Band Festival Nov. 14 in Taipei.  Dihua Street Photowalk led by Craig Ferguson Nov. 15.  The 2009 Nantou Flower Festival will be hosting several events this month and next month.