The Daily Bubble Tea

I once caught a fish this big.

• Guanxi – Taichung’s newest ex-pat magazine is out.
• Wandering Taiwan visits the Shanbanqiao Opera Life Culture Center.
• Stu hikes Snow Mountain.
• Mark goes to the Taichung Aboriginal Culture Festival.
• Shu Flies attends the Taipei Toy Festival.
• Biking in Taiwan rides Xindian’s Shizaitoushan.
• The Bradt Travel Guide with information on Lord Chi.
• Joshua Samuel Brown visits Keelung Night Market.
• Taiwanese Secrets with a travel guide for Dalun on the East Coast.
• Fili visits the 228 Memorial Park and Museum.
• Patrick Cowsill goes to court.
• Sponge Bear rants [Part I and Part II].
• Ben Goren rounds up today’s news.
• Formosa Plastics on fire [again].
• Global Voices Online covers a protest which turned the boulevard in front of the Presidential Office into rice fields.
• Save the Taiwan Humpback Dolphin reports that the environmentally destructive Hushan Dam will be completed in 2014.

• The Taiwan Pictures Digital Archive gets a facelift.
• Starbreez survives the Caoling Historic Trail.
• Taiwanese Secrets presents a travel guide for Hsinchu.
• Fili visits the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.
• Lady Gaga’s favorite tea cup is purple.  What about yours?  Tea Masters with some tips for finding your favorite tea cup.
• Michael C. cycles a coastal adventure.
• Brian Q. Webb visits the World Chocolate Wonderland in Taipei.
• Patrick Cowsill has the scoop on trailers available for rent in Banchiao.
• Taichung Photowalk this weekend.
• Craig Ferguson offers photo tours in Taipei.
• The Battle of Fisherman’s Wharf with information about Danshui’s past cholera epidemics.
• A Chinese tourist caught in May taking photos in a restricted area may have been directed by PRC intelligence.
• Letters from Taiwan with recent survey results for the President, ECFA, and Legislature.

A Spotted Tortoise Beetle [Aspidomorpha miliaris] snacks on a leaf in Jhongsing Village.

• Rich searches for Anping’s sword lions.
• Michael C. cycles along Shiping Road.
• Wandering Taiwan visits Penghu’s Erkan Clan.
• Tai Wander Years has his cat quarantined on arrival.
• Rice Society introduces readers to a Buddhist second-hand store in Taipei.
• Sponge Bear covers professional baseball in Taiwan and its state of crisis.
• David visits a village relocation site in Alishan.
• The Taiwan Link and the possible US Asia-Pacific policy shift.
• The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato and Michael T. review Formosa Betrayed.