I'm actually applying for the public school program but I don't know Chinese. I want to find somewhere to chill and get a nice ltr gf but it seems from what I've read very hard. They will fuck the White guys but don't want a serious relationship.
What's Taipei like in general? Lots of wild subcultures and wild nightlife? Is it a cool place to live or boring af like Kuala Lumpur?

>>2865116
>>2865118
Taiwan sucks. Nobody speaks English and Mandarin is hard as fuck to learn. Not sure why someone made its own general here

>>2865122
I've seen lots of anons on here talking like it's the best secret spot if Asia

Does anyone have any resources for learning mandarin?
And, if I speak like a mainlander visiting taiwan are they going to get mad at me?

>>2865123
Best secret spot if you like pointing and trying to speak baby Mandarin to someone laughing their ass off at you. There's no way to communicate with dignity as a tourist

>>2865122
>>2865128
Is this negative nigga correct?

>>2865122
>>2865123
The food in Taiwan sucks (relative to other E Asia destinations, in a vacuum its fine/good) but otherwise it has better English levels than Korea Japan and all non Tier-1 Mainland China. It is (or was) a good secret spot because it was not popular with tourists despite being very nice and accessible but that is less true now than it was 10 years ago.


>>2865126
I speak mandarin with a mainland accent and I deliberately play it up when in Taiwan because YES you will get reaction but no not a negative one just that you are a novelty and the girls like it


>>2865129
No

>>2865129
>>2865148
>I speak Mandarin fluently and even have a Mainland accent. Anyways, Taiwan is great they totally speak English!
LMFAO

>>2865148
>it was not popular with tourists despite being very nice
Gee I wonder why, doesn't every tourist speak Mandarin fluently like me? People are so irrational..

>>2865116
>Taiwan General
>/thg/
Where the fuck did the H come from?

>>2865188
Thaiwan, because all the study partners are thai women

>>2865150
If you want to immerse yourself in any culture, its important to at least make an effort to learn the language. Or are you one of those people that travels just to blow all your extra money to feel like a rich person for a week?

>>2865239
No need for your incel projection, clamp your clitty leak and try communicating like a normal person.

>>2865122
>Nobody speaks English
Why should they? It's not a western country.

Why are there 2 Taiwan generals?

>>2865351
the other one got infiltrated by CPC sympathizers

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Anyone worked for pic rel? I'm just applying. Any good city recommendations?

>>2865149
>>2865150
I don't know what your point is - don't go to any country where you don't speak the language? Taipei has better English levels than Korea and Japan by a wide margin but those are more popular with western tourists

>>2865118
>it seems hard
wtf no
if you are east Asian or white, it's easy as
>>2865122
>Chicom demoralization only got second post
Must have your holiday crew working
Xi won't be pleased

>>2865123
ymmv
only discovered some of the best stuff because locals dragged me out to it
you'd be surprised how many good restaurants and bars are either 3 floors up or down with nothing more than a tiny hand sized sign
they aren't trying for your money so if you're coming from a place where everyone will kowtow to your retarded whims its obviously going to warp some people's view
Unlike other economies dependent on visitors money, Taiwanese don't need you and have to put in effort simply to deal with you and your dumb foreigner ass, if you understand that fact you'll have a good time

>>2865238
There's not many Thai people in Taiwan and they all have normal jobs, feel bad for them they have that stigma because they're all decent people
t.drinks with Thais

>>2865476
>they aren't trying for your money so if you're coming from a place where everyone will kowtow to your retarded whims its obviously going to warp some people's view
>Unlike other economies dependent on visitors money, Taiwanese don't need you and have to put in effort simply to deal with you and your dumb foreigner ass, if you understand that fact you'll have a good time
Bro you keep repeating this. Negative energy npc

>>2865516
I'm simply telling you what I see
Travel to the country all the time and its how they are
Go to Thailand or something if you desperately need validation as a tourist

>>2865476
If you can't read Chinese, you're pretty fucked in Taiwan. Yes you can still get your necessities, but you won't be enjoying the best of what the country has to offer, and you'll probably be coping with a lot of cans of Taiwan Beer from convenience stores. Translate apps often give you gibberish results for wall menus, and even if they do give English words, you can't order by shouting an English word! The only way a non-Chinese speaking person without a local friend can order is having the cook come away from his station, walk to your side, and see which item you are pointing at on the wall menu (which may not even be at a level that allows items to be pointed at, sometimes I wished I had a fucking laser pointer kek). Very inconvenient and annoying for a people who pride themselves on workplace efficiency. The best dining spots you won't even be able to get a seat, much less a table, as a solo foreigner wandering around. Great Chinese restaurants are always fucking crammed with diners, and the harried staff have no time to explain the menu items to a foreigner, much less do so in English.
>>2865467
Facial asymmetry is deemed very unattractive by East Asians. Look at the mugshot on your driver's license; if your face isn't symmetrical, you're unlikely to have success with dating in Taiwan.

>>2865524
I'm thinking of moving to Taiwan soon. I'm obviously willing to learn the language but don't know shit now. Would be nice to find a serious Taiwanese gf obviously too. What am I in for?

>>2865524
Keen to see you go on a shooting spree friend

>>2865537
A lot of women will treat you like a handbag and you need to accept that
Otherwise it's not hard to find a decent one if you are legit and staying long term, ignore the agitprop nonsense from other "people" here

>>2865617
Appreciate the positive response

Does anyone know anything about living in Taichung? Looks superior to Taipei in a way. Huge city with 30% cheaper rents sounds good

Taiwanons, what are my chances of finding a wife or gf?

>Pros:

>White
>Financially comfy
>6'1
>Athletic
>Post grad
>Good looking
>Green eyes
>Strong jaw

>Cons:

>42yo
>Bald
>No Mandarin skills
>Just an English teacher

How much ick do they feel with the LBH English teacher?

>>2865644
You can be an English teacher and pull girls if you're young and nobody will care. Old, bald, and still working as a dancing monkey will not get you anywhere in developed parts of Asia unless you're settling for the absolute worst washed up women.

You'd be better off considering Cambodia.

>>2865648
Hmm. But I'll take a 35yo, even a single mom. Maybe you'd consider that washed up? I'm ok with that.
I'm a state licensed teacher. I have money. I just want to chill though. Semi retired. But I'm probably gonna give heavy LBH vibes anyway ig.
I used to work in Cambodia. All over SEA. I kinda like the ultra clean, ultra modern, ultra safe East Asia though.

>>2865116
I watched a woman cross the street as the wind blew her hair in all directions, over her sight. She continued walking undisturbed with perfect posture and defiance at a steady pace. She had so much dignity and will, and beauty.

You don't need to know Chinese in Taiwan to have fun for a few weeks. It's only needed to date high quality local women. If that's not your aim, then you won't be disappointed. This holds true everywhere. High quality women expect being able to communicate with their partner...

>>2865680
wait, you actually might be disappointed. Taiwan smells a lot and it's not as fun as Vietnam.

I heard you can see a lot of Indonesians and Filipinas who work as maids hanging out in the parks on Sundays.
A little push push in the bush maybe?

>>2865644
>>2865650
Not hard you just need to put yourself out there with the shitty hours of their bars.

Being bald is probably the biggest hurdle unless you're built

>>2865691
>shitty hours of their bars.
Gross. Not interested in degeneracy

>>2865694
>Gross. Not interested in degeneracy
Ah so you're the life of a party, if you're not open to some basic social drinking once in a while to break into the community good fucking luck in any Asia country anon.

I'm not saying you have to go the club each night but if you're not open to at least meeting people in an open social setting like that, you've basically limited yourself off from a huge market.

>>2865694
>42
>Bald
>no local language
>not going to the one place where people who could let that slide and want to practice English will be
Join a church then

>>2865695
You literally said the shitty hours of the bars. Like some 4am slampig who pisses herself before I fuck her.
>>2865696
>not going to the one place where people who could let that slide and want to practice English will be
What one place?

>>2865686
what a disgusting euphemism

>>2865699
Are you the same nigga saying >>2865695
>Ah so you're the life of a party

>>2865701
no I'm not

>>2865698
>You literally said the shitty hours of the bars. Like some 4am slampig who pisses herself before I fuck her.
My guy... I meant shitty hours because a lot don't open up before 4PM-6pm which can be meh depending on your life style. Who the fuck thinks they are going to have a realistic conversation at 4AM
>What one place?
Bars are common places for locals to meet foreigners and find someone they can use to practice english with often setting up dates and other stuff after.

Come on man this is basic knowledge, no wonder you are single you're social skills are of someone who's like 17

>>2865702
You sound like you attract a lot of bullies

>>2865704
You sound like a mega chad

>>2865703
Anon. I know males encounter sexually permissive females in bars. Not actually the best place to meet someone for a serious relationship. Though your church idea is solid

>>2865705
yes

>>2865710
good lad

>>2865709
>I know males encounter sexually permissive females in bars. Not actually the best place to meet someone for a serious relationship.
Again your social views are that of someone who is underage and can't drink. Bars and Pubs are viewed insanely differently in Asia than whatever club you went to once and assume all bars are this way. People going out after work for 3-4 beers to socialize and talk is completely normal, you're acting as if I am saying go party hard till the sun comes up.

A bar or pub is probably the lowest barrier of entry with most rinse and repeat options available. A church is good but everyone is going to be taken so hopefully someone has a fat aunt to marry

>>2865644
>Post grad
>Green eyes
>Good looking
>Athletic
>No Mandarin skills
How easy was it to get a GF/wife at home? Now take that level of difficulty but now realize you have no basic way of communication.

>>2865713
>educating me on bar culture in Asia
Did you miss the part I said I've lived all over SEA?
You're thinking in terms of your own age group. Now tell me quality late 30s wife material can be found in bars and clubs. Hmm? Hmm anon?
I gave you credit for your church idea now sit down

>>2865716
>How easy was it to get a GF/wife at home? Now take that level of difficulty but now realize you have no basic way of
You're saying Taiwan is the same difficulty level for White guys as their home countries but with added difficulty of language barrier?

>>2865717
>Did you miss the part I said I've lived all over SEA?
Because you may have lived there but you're so socially inept it's actually baffling to me that you would turn your nose up to the obvious answer.
>Now tell me quality late 30s wife material can be found in bars and clubs. Hmm? Hmm anon?
Dude you're 42 and bald, your best bet is a bar where some 30 something office worker who hasn't had time for a BF is fighting against their biological clock for a financially secure guy to stumble into their life so they can focus on a mother role. I didn't say clubs, I said you are addressing bars as clubs and conflating the two.
>I gave you credit for your church idea now sit down
Anon you're 42 not 22 and not 32, 42. A church is a good social structure and good to go to, assuming you don't go to the cult ones, but everyone and their sister is going to be 20's and getting married. This isn't Philippines, Korea, or Thailand where a 40 year old that's financially secure is worth a decade or two age gap; it's taiwan where plenty of options exist you really don't have much going for you. No you being White, somewhat financially secure(whatever this means) 6'1 doesn't go far in Taiwan when you're 42 and bald lmao.

If you wanted a trad wife you should live a trad lifestyle.

>>2865721
>Bro meet your middle aged wife at a bar at 4am! If you don't do this your a retard!
Holy fucking warped advice. kek. Good chuckle content anon.

>>2865721
>rage bait

>>2865723
Anon, I didn't and am not saying, stay till you meet the 4AM bar hags who are sloshed looking for any kind of dick. Holy shit are you actually retarded? I am literally telling you go during the after work crowd to meet people, I know teachers can have odd hours that's why I said it may be weird to get to.

If you can't understand social drinking and then heading home around 9-10PM from the bar after a few conversations, you are literally too socially inept to meet any women.

>>2865728
How about I go there and nut inside you since you seem like an uptight nagging little faggot?

>>2865723
So how's the last 25 years of dating been working out then that you need to ask on 4chan of all places for dating advice?

>>2865731
It's been beautiful. A swan show. But I've never tried a zesty little girl boss twink. I know you're thinking how to reply with your hands on your hips and your jaw jutting left and right.
Drop a burner email here, you little zest fest

>>2865737
unc please calm down you're too old for this

>>2865739
>you're too old for this
*snaps fingers. Looks me up and down

>>2865717
Anon, I get women usually date older but you're not exactly selling anyone on anything with your posting and just now sitting down for "needing the traditional wife" at this point in the game you're going to need to find a compromise.
>Now tell me quality late 30s wife material can be found in bars and clubs
You should be keeping all options on the table my guy, you closing down any options you possibly can have is a game ender. You're an English teacher that's not really a head turner of a career field nor something anyone respecting the salary coming in on that. Bald 42 year old and can't speak the local language with a career that can be gone in 6 months without a second thought isn't really a head turner.

>>2865650
>I'm a state licensed teacher. I have money
lol wow you get maybe 10-15% more than the random pino they brought in

>>2865816
I told you I'm retired, dumdum. I'm just doing this for fun and a stable visa.
Stop nagging me. It really feels like autistic fixation. Let it go. I don't want to meet my wife in a bar. Stop freaking out about it ffs lmao move on

>>2865122
>waaaahhh I went to a foreign country and they don't speak my language >:[

Ask me how I know your BMI is over 40 and you smell like ass

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>>2865633
For a foreigner Taipei is magnitudes easier living, but if you can integrate and speak Mandarin or at least learn then yeah Taichung is awesome
Everything has a price and tradeoff, if you are willing and keen then go for it. You'll have fun.
>>2865621
Lived all over Asia and its easy mode here hey, you'll be fine, but do need to understand, the fashion accessory thing is very real, there's a lot of women who have no real intention of a long term relationship yet having a western bf to show off gives them clout in their circles. I've learnt this the hard way more than once.

>>2865900
>having a western bf to show off gives them clout in their circles
Even an ESL teacher?

>>2865910
Yeah, spend enough time and you'll understand that its a very appearance based and superficial in many ways
>>2865698
>Like some 4am slampig who pisses herself before I fuck her
This is disconcertingly too specific

>>2865914
>appearance based
*society

What about Taichung or Kaohsiung? Thinking about working remotely out there. Anyone been?

>>2866008
I worked there remotely for 6 weeks. Good facilities, but really boring for a place of its size. The food was more bland and the heat felt worse than in Taipei.

>>2866009
Ok. Cool. I think I'm settling for New Taipei City. Close enough to Taipei with 30% or cheaper rents. You have any experience there?

>>2866008
Both are ok for a week, just to scratch any curiosity itch, and also use as an excuse ride the trains

but imo Taipei and the surrounding area are so much better for that. Taichung and Kaohsiung had really smelly manholes every 20 feet on most streets. Taichung lacks the nice green spaces, and it's hard to access the parks surrounding the city. I took busses and walked about an hour to reach them. Kaosiung has trains and a coast, but I tried hiking and it smelled like dog shit from the monkeys. I couldn't really enjoy these cities because it was always stinky. December Taipei air was a lot fresher imo. The air didn't cross my mind there until I returned and was grateful I didn't have to hold my breath so often

>Wake up at 11am
>Do whatever for 8 hours - go to Tamsui, makeng, Taipei zoo rain line, Keelung. You can cover a lot of ground. I love the south bit of Taipei and how estates merge into the mountains. It's so green there.
>Work from 7pm to 3am
>Sleep until 11am

>>2866009
For a city of that size it definitely feels that way sometimes.
The country is small enough you can visit nearly anywhere in a daytrip so Taipei makes a lot more sense to live in, especially for a foreigner
>>2866011
New Taipei city has much better accommodation for the price. Taiwanese people claim they don't like big windows but every apartment with sunshine and windows costs 30% more so the market doesn't match what they say.
Newer apartments down in Xindian or up north in Beitou seem good value compared to in town.
There's other cheap areas like Songshan but not really any foreigners there

>>2866025
The Taipei parks are worth it so much. I understand why everyone likes daan
My friend lives in Wenshan and it's so green and nice near his house

How fucking cool would it be to be living in Taiwan when China invaded. No way I'd leave on a relief plane. Would be one of the greatest moments of my life. Watching one of the biggest historical events of the century live in front of your eyes.

>>2866062
>How fucking cool would it be to be living in Taiwan when China invaded
Taiwan is more likely to crumble to soft power far before and land, sea, or air invasion.
>Watching one of the biggest historical events of the century live in front of your eyes.
Let's not kid ourselves you'd be running and gunning for a bunker unless they kick you out and tell you go fight.
>Would be one of the greatest moments of my life.
I'm sure your country is enlisting servicemen, go for it champ

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>>2866064
>Let's not kid ourselves you'd be running and gunning for a bunker unless they kick you out and tell you go fight.
I'm a veteran of the British Army you silly nigger. Why do people assume to know who anonymous posters are.
An invasion is unlikely but still quite possible

>>2866068
>I'm a veteran of the British Army you silly nigger. Why do people assume to know who anonymous posters are.
Because you type like some retard who sat behind a desk if what you say is true.
>An invasion is unlikely but still quite possible
It's PR shit for as long as China doesn't need a huge PR win to quell unrest/uneasy within the country. Half the reason to take Taiwan is for it's infrastructure which Taiwan gladly states it's willing to blow at the first sign of troops on the beaches. Not to mention basically every country will condemn the action. Maybe after the next elections sure, but the most realistic "invasion" is akin to how HK was taken over- I mean made fully autonomous.

>>2866074
>Because you type like some retard who sat behind a desk if what you say is true.
A wish to experience historical events firsthand is why I joined the army in the first place.
I understand patience and soft power will likely reclaim the island but as I come closer to moving to Taiwan, a nigga can dream

>>2866062
At least there's an air defense bunker close by wherever you go but I think your larping as an adventure traveler would get old real quick under bombardment
Wish you well living in the hills begging your government to extract you when you had a months notice

>>2866919
>begging your government to extract you
Pussy faggot projection

>>2866924
You can go to a warzone right now big guy
Why don't you?

>>2866983
>You can go to a warzone right now big guy
>>2866068
>I'm a veteran of the British Army
did that already, coward

>>2867002
And you want to hang out when autonomous drone warfare comes to town? What bullshit.
I've never met a vet who likes actual war except the psychos who slipped through and those who never saw any action. Keep up the greenzone larping on a travel board though
There's a full scale replica of my apartment building for special forces to train on in the Chinese interior, I'm not paticularly keen myself and like Taiwan as it is.
So please off to hong kong you wannabe chicom, or if you want to see action may I suggest Tehran, at the very least you've got a civil war and 40,000 dead :)
It will be a fucking bloodbath multiples greater if shit goes down in Taiwan and no decent human being wants to see that

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To any /fit/izens currently residing in taiwan, what are some good cheap sources of protein? Milk is expensive and the only non-deepfried chicken i've come across are the breast filets at 7/11.

I asked my airbnb host for good places for groceries and he just told me 7/11. I get the impression most of the locals here subsist off of fried shit and boba tea most of the time since most of them look like theyre made of hot dog meat. At least all the walking keeps them skinny though.

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>>2867359
Oh shit. I'm moving from China to Taiwan. Sounds just as protein deprived. Here in China it frustrates the shit out of me. There is literally not a single piece of meat they enjoy as a main interest, it's always scraps of meat in something else.
I keep seeing pic rel on tiktok. You haven't seen it at night markets?

If you want protein, get a Costco membership and start cooking your chicken breasts. They also have protein powder there. There are protein drinks and precooked chicken breasts available at 7/11 but they are obviously going to be more expensive.

>>2867375
Where in China are you? Fish and meat mains are everywhere, unless you're at cheap ass back alley restaurants. Though the concept of a plain piece of meat cooked alone with zero seasoning or spices isn't really a thing. It's not common in Asia at all.

>>2867391
>Where in China are you?
I'm in Chongqing atm. Food is shit ass awful
> a plain piece of meat cooked alone with zero seasoning or spices
Alright anon chill out nobody says they want that

>>2867403
You're in the global capital of hotpot. Hotpot is just meat cooked in spicy water. You can even choose what kind of meat you want.

>>2867407
anon, it's just thin slivers of meat combined with carbs and fiber. You come out if the gym, you want pure protein. I need 28g of protein every 3 hours I don't want a huge meal every 3 hours, 20% of which is protein dense.
You unironically and clearly don't lift

Discussing protein with a noodle-armed skinny fat overbite dork

>>2867359
Just any supermarket would have protein powder, GNC is all over in Taipei same with Watsons.

>>2867359
go to carrefour and buy chicken breasts and milk. whole milk is not expensive in the supermarket.
you should also be able to get cooked/roasted or rotisserie chicken parts in carrefour unless it is a small one.

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>>2867375
I havent been to any night markets in kaohsiung yet as when i went to taipei last year i found them underwhelming and kind of gross. Trust me there is no shortage of fried chicken here though.

>>2867388
>>2867468
I ended up getting a costco membership and was disappointed to see that milk and chicken there weren't particularly cheap. The free samples for liquor at 10am on a monday were exciting though and i was greeted by a 70+ year old woman saying "SANK YOU AND GOD BRESS YOU" in an uncomfortably southern accent when I walked in which made the trip worth it. Plus something about owning a chinese costo card just warms my heart. unironically
>Costco Card :l
>Costco Card, Taiwan :O
I'm hoping to avoid protein powders because I assume any local brands probably have heavy metals in them like the american ones do.

>>2867652
I went today and bought a bento with chicken thigh in it for like 2 dollars since I arrived right after 1pm when they mark them down. i would say that after searching far and wide i think carrefour is as cheap as milk gets for an island with no cows on it but i just looked it up and apparently there are cows here they just cant lactate hard enough to feed everyone. maybe the government should start importing fat bitches

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For the last 6 months, I've been living in Japan on a student visa. While I did have a very rewarding experience, I'm choosing not to return for the 2nd semester of my school as I have no desire to try to "fit" in with japanese society and feel strongly with their sentiment that foreigners need to fuck off.

That being said, the idea of returning to the states makes me shutter. I have much more of an affinity for mandarian than I do for japanese and I hear that Taiwan gives off a vibe similar to Korea in that they don't care as much if you're a white dude roaming around, they just mind their business. In Japan, that is NOT the case and it irks the fuck out of me. Should I try doing a language school in Taiwan or something? I wanted to take a gap year anyways for work (worked the last 8 years in accounting) and I wanted to also see if there were opportunities to stay longer but in the case of Japan, it's not the place I want to be. But I've definitely realized that Asia and the walkability/cities/food etc are all things that click for me

>>2867842
Unironically please keep us updated on the protein quest. I'm moving to Taiwan in a few months and it sounds like I'm leaving one protein desert and entering another. Kinda pissed. They don't have fish everywhere? It's a fucking island

>>2867359
Your options

>eggs
eat eggs nigger

>Traditional market
buy real meat

>健康餐盒 on google for lunchboxes, there’s usually places with extra proteins for fitfags

>>2867874
>I hear that Taiwan gives off a vibe similar to Korea in that they don't care as much if you're a white dude roaming around, they just mind their business. In Japan, that is NOT the case and it irks the fuck out of me.

Why do you care what some old racist Japanese boomer or incel guys think?

Just ignore, act like like a chad and fuck Japanese women, it won't irk you when you're balls deep in Japanese girls.

>>2867881
>Just ignore, act like like a chad and fuck Japanese women, it won't irk you when you're balls deep in Japanese girls.
Sexist much?

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>>2867842
>I'm hoping to avoid protein powders because I assume any local brands probably have heavy metals in them like the american ones do.
Oh boy do I have BAD news for you about fish in Asia then... you're overthinking this hard, keep in mind that was like 1-2 brands and was following only California retard mode safety concerns. Yes the same state that leagalized giving others STD's. Protein powder is fine drink more water, the vitamins you take and water you drink there is probably far worse.

>>2867876
GNC has protein bars, powder, etc. Seriously not hard to get proper protein, a pork bowl at Sukiya is cheap as hell McDonalds almost always has good breakfast deals. Without anon saying his protein goals hard to recommend anything big. Tons of shops have just full chicken or pork platters it's pretty easy to find what you need, you're overthinking it.

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>>2865148
Am I the only one that likes Taiwanese food? Everyone seems to shit on it.
Am in heaven in some of these dumpling joints.
Hotpot is solid, there's Jap-owned restaurants and izakayas all over. The economy buffets are stuff yourself stupid tier.
I don't get the hate for it, you can eat out all the time for not much with far healthier options here than anywhere else on Earth.

>>2867412
>I need 28g of protein every 3 hours
least deranged /fit/izen
Guessing you don't have a stove in your airbnb? Chicken breast from carrefour or pxmart is cheap
Without cooking equipment and trying to keep costs down I'd go the convenience store packaged chicken breasts and century eggs.
When I didn't have a kitchen would buy a few of those to put in the microwave with cheese on top (fuck cooking things in a plastic bag like they do in store), then on a sandwich with some lettuce and kewpie mayo, would be hitting over 30g protein for a small meal.
If you're willing to eat out then dumplings are protein rich, I pay 120 for ten pork dumplings which is 90% meat, Korean BBQ you can just sit there and solely eat meat no one will even blink.

>>2868200
>far healthier options than anywhere else on Earth
Strong doubt on that point. But of course there are some places that are tasty.

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>>2868205
There's plenty of deep fried shit everywhere and some of the bakery/fried bread things obviously aren't daily foodstuffs,but on the whole I think it's very easy to eat healthy without a kitchen in Taiwan.
You actually get a serving of vegetables each time unlike a lot of Asia.

U all just 978.life for good the real reason u come fucking teaching will be replaced with telescam

>>2868207
>opens 6 pm
So annoying these late opening times
At $5 a bowl you should get a little better quality than the $2.50 or $3 meals which I typically went for, and which has a couple bites of mushy greens as the extent of vegetable intake. One vegetarian restaurant in Hualien served excellent food with all kinds of exotic mushrooms and other strange veggies, but charged 200 a plate. Mostly its that brown onions sauce that everything is flavored with. I grew to hate the flavor. That bento box smell in the convenience stores is also disgusting.

>>2867412
>. I need 28g of protein every 3 hours I don't want a huge meal every 3 hours,
No, you really don't lol this is that GET RIPPED QUICK! shit that doesn't really work. As long as you eat your bulk of protein around 3ish hours before or after working out you're fine.

You're not hugh jackman

>>2868200
>Dumplings
Good but basic food and there's more variety and often better execution in Mainland
>Hotpot
Same comment as above
>Jap restaurants
Great welcome to every major city in E Asia
>Far healthier than anywhere else on earth
That's a stretch

I am the one you're responding to so my opinion is already stated
"The food in Taiwan sucks (relative to other E Asia destinations, in a vacuum its fine/good)"
I dont think this is an unreasonable position though starts hyperbolic. The food in Taiwan is generally more bland and with less protein than neighboring destinations. Its more 'snack' based so to speak with nightmarkets or quick single dish restaurants (eg noodles) than larger meals. Most of their food is an inferior version of a Mainland style and what is truly local is mostly not special. Exception - Taiwan beef noodle soup is the best beef noodle soup in the Sinosphere

>>2868200
>>2868312
>>2868312
>>2868401
Why are you protein seeking tards not thinking about fish? You're on an island

>>2868430
Do you have some specific dishes or restaurants you'd like to enlighten us to, or are you unable to foresee the same already made criticisms equally applying to fish dishes

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>>2868397
>>2868200
Gains goblins ITT

korean bbq is expensive to eat everyday and dumplings are too oily. might as well hit the kendeji bulk at that point

>>2868468
I have yet to visit Taiwan but I refuse to believe fish is not a readily available food source on an island. You just don't like fish or something

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>>2868515
>dumplings are too oily
Most people mean steamed dumplings when they say the word here? I haven't had fried dumplings in years. Also some healthy dimsum dishes

>>2868401
I'm yet to see a city with more fruit shops than Taipei, surely that's a sign?
I guess maybe I have a tolerance for "bland". Simple food with fresh ingredients is more important than overloading it with oil and sugar to hide crappy meats

>>2868430
I love fish but won't eat it in Asia.
It's an environmental/sustainability thing. Call me a woke faggot for it I don't care, the oceans are being raped if not completely depleted especially in this region.
Entire species no longer exist here because Asians have no concept of sustainable fisheries management and will fuck up the planet when left to their own devices. It's some magical unlimited resource to them.
Chinese boats now travel all the way right to the South American coast because there's nothing left for them locally.

Don't have many morals in this world but this is one hill I will die on.
Thankyou for coming to my ted talk
t.Poseidon

>>2868516
Readily available is beside the point. We're discussing relative strengths and weaknesses of local PREPARATION

>>2868534
Im talking about steamed. Don't get me wrong they're delicious but most of the time when you bite into them youre greeted with several teaspoons of oil from the fatty meat they laobans fill them with.

>>2868401
>foreigner eats at tourist and entertainment spots and thinks all food is like that
20 million people aren't eating finger food

>>2868534
>Chinese boats now travel all the way right to the South American coast because there's nothing left for them locally.
Whole fleets of them outside of Peru, and they even put in a port. Stupid S.Americans don't stop it. It was 15 years ago that I stood at a Lobster Pound in Yarmouth, watching a guy on a cellphone talk to a buyer in Korea and purchase 100% of the catch of the day, every time a lobster boat pulled in.

>>2868534
Those Chinese ships aren't just fishing for China. They're Chinese, yeah, but they're selling those fish to every country on earth. Restaurants buy cheap fish because it makes for higher profit margins, and they don't have the obligation to tell you who fished it.

>>2868692
Im not talking about tourist spots. Believe me (or dont) I have explored Taipei's restaurant scene extensively

Is Taiwan cheaper than South Korea or Japan? i would like to visit it someday

>>2868534
Then eat farmed tilapia or shrimp if you care so much about the heckin oceans.
>>2868692
Yeah, I'd like to see some IRL pics of this amazing healthy Taiwanese food that anons keep raving about. Because I sure as hell didn't encounter it when I visited Taipei, or Keelung, or Yilan, or Hualien.

>>2868312
Bars opening at 7 or 8pm gets me also, cmon I'm a white guy and am drinking minutes after finishing work for the week, Asians seem to need the sun to go down before kicking on.

>>2869511
Farmed fish isn't any better and causes a lot of other issues.
I'll eat specific species or anything caught myself in the western world, not touching anything in asia, simple as
Those tiny Thai farmed shrimp are gross too, you don't want to see those farms, all of them have a pack of dogs for theft protection and they shit straight into the netted areas all over your dinner

>>2869485
Depends on your currency? Japan is quite cheap these days, a lot of Taiwanese go for holiday because its better value for them. I don't find Taipei that expensive, you can get some average hotel room cheap on weekdays, prices seem to double on weekends though.

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>>2868716
Too many countries are terrified of doing anything in case it ruins trade relationships.
Other East Asian countries will go to town after hostile fishing boats though which is funny.

I'm flying to Taiwan tomorrow; Tainan and Taipei. I want to do a daytrip to Kaohsiung while I'm in Tainan. How's getting back late at night? I found that the last train towards Tainan leaves just before midnight. If I miss the last train, how easy is it to find an uber/taxi? I wanted to do some tourist stuff on Cijin/Qijin during the day and then migrate to downtown Kaohsiung for dinner, drinks, and try to find a live music bar.

>>2868534
Fuck the oceans. What has a fish everywhere done for me?

Sounds like Taiwanese is straight up garbage. Philippines-tier.

>>2869673
Take that back! I'm Filipino! Or the very least, explain why.

>>2869738
Why don't you explain why there are no filipino restaurants around the world

>>2869751
Colonial Mentality. We have been invaded by Americans and Spaniarda who brainwashed us into thinking that local Filipino is bad.

>>2869751
>what is Jolibee

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>>2868515
>Gains goblins ITT
Anon the "need to have protein ever X hours" is a huge meme only meant for those actually doing some lookmaxxing BS which yes hugh jackman does for specific roles. A large meal for breakfast, you can get a 35g protein shake at any 711 for like 75ntd or 2.50, hitting ~100-120g of protein is fucking easy in about 2ish meals. This is if you're actually needing that much which I don't think most people on /fit/ do because every time I've meet a /fit/izen from /trv/ they are DYEL "yeah I gym like a lot(see: 1-2 times) a week". doubt most people here could do 5 sets of 8x115kg leg presses. That's a low bar man like monday after a weekend of drinking

>korean bbq is expensive to eat everyday and dumplings are too oily. might as well hit the kendeji bulk at that point
Protein doesn't give a shit how you get it anon, just that your body gets it. Yes eating the real meat and protein is always preferable to something like a shake or supplement, but hey it's not going to just be run through the body like water, though it may digest slightly faster due to not as much to breakdown, so timing is a bit more key.

Taiwan has a ton of chicken everywhere, supermarkets full of frozen chicken. Fish/seafood is literally everywhere to be had high in protein.

Like hell, KFC which is everywhere is like what 180ntd for a chicken leg and breast meal. that's probably like 40-50g of protein there for 4 bucks, and that's "I am so lazy" mode.

>>2869820
no one who is white actually likes that

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Like breakfast 2 of those sandwiches would be cheap as hell, egg+chicken+bacon bruh what are we doing. If that's too expensive and you're against using protein bars/shakes to supplement, you really are too poor to travel to Taiwan for bulking.

This is all assuming you don't want to use BOGO deals at places or too catty to grab some night market food

>>2869485
Korea is cheapest by FAR but you also get what you pay for.

>Farmed fish isn't any better and causes a lot of other issues.
It's not THAT bad oh no slightly more risk of slightly higher doses of mercury, yeah don't eat it breakfast lunch and dinner

>>2869820
Jolibee's abroad are used only by filipino migrants. Is there any filipino food at all that people in and of other countries appreciate?
Also, that's not how you use greentext

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can anyone recommend a nice or decent hotel anywhere in the main taipei area? I booked 4 nights at hotel b7 111 and holy fuck was that a mistake. never trusting photos or reviews ever again. it's like a fucking 5m cave with no windows and smells like shit. please anyone, give me a recommendation.

>>2869825
I'm talking about environmental issues like diseases and getting feedstock for them
I spent my youth drinking and getting munted, not particularly fussed about some mercury but avoiding top of the food chain stuff like flake/shark/whale is if you want to bioaccumulated mercury

>>2869864
by main taipei to you just mean not new taipei or do you mean really specifically central like by the 101?

if you just mean not new taipei
courtyard marriott on minsheng rd
hotel proverbs
shangri la far eastern

all good/decent

Taiwan is a terrible choice for a lot of reasons.

Go to vietnam.

>>2869864
A lot of it is luck of the draw with rooms. Some hotels have unliveable to great all priced for the same room type. Have you tried asking for a different room?
Maybe try Muzik? It's alright. Same area and has always been ok for me though I assume they have some shit rooms like everywhere else.

Taiwanese are terrified of windows apparently, even the expensive rooms with them its often tiny with dismal amounts of natural light
Hotel prices are going to be double for the next week, its CNY, you aren't going to get a good deal anywhere
Try airbnb or something where prices don't fluctuate

What are the gyms like in Taiwan? When I worked in China the gyms (understandably) were crowded af. Unbearable.

>>2869864
I stayed at the Capella for 3 nights. It was quite decent for a Capella brand hotel. The price is a bit high but not unreasonable

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>>2865644
>>42yo
>>Bald
>>Just an English teacher
Unfathomably grim
I'd rather stay a bottom of the rung wagie back home

>>2870278
>I'd rather stay a bottom of the rung wagie back home
Committing to it

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>>2865694
>42
>bald
>not willing to socialize at bars
LOOOOOOOOOOOOL

>>2870095
Had a month membership near my place and it's never that crowded
I like the outdoor public gyms and youbikes now though, unless you are some insane /fit/ tard it's enough

>>2865644
How does someone go to college, get a degree, move to another country, then manage to develop no skills and be nothing but an English teacher?

>>2871068
I was writing with some humility. I'm a licensed teacher and spent my career in international schools. I'm an English Language Arts teacher. IB & IGCSE. I invested my money and don't need to save/invest anymore so just want something comfy and focus on life outside school.

>>2869815
No. Filipino food is simply bad. If it was good it would be popular somewhere else. But it isn't. It has nothing to do with America.

>>2865644
>bald
>white
>40s
>english teacher

Gf yes. Wife no. Taiwanese are very superficial. You need to be someone she can show to her family, friends, and coworkers and not feel crushing shame.

The fact is that you are not a "catch" in Taiwan.

>>2865116
how bad is the air pollution / pollution in general in Taiwan?

>>2868664
not him but I wanted to let you know I agree.

It's actually nice how similar many of us Taiwan goers are. Slim, like exercise, dislike sports, like Chinese women and the language, dislike greasy food and align on what that comprises

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>>2869864
oh gosh I'm being reminded of hotel bullshit

>>2870025
like this dude ^ says

Many cheap places have no windows. It's not because people are afraid of them, but you squeeze more rooms into towers without windows. I was afraid of dying from CO2 asphyxiation in my shoebox hotel room"

Many places smell like sewer shit. In Gaoxiong, I walked into a hotel I had booked for 7 nights (!!!) and it made my stomach somersault immediately. I checked in, walked to my room and sat on the bed think "I can't do this" for a few minutes lmao I contacted booking.com and went to the front desk. I cannot believe those staff sit in that stench ALL DAY.

Then there are the retarded prices for mediocre rooms. I "made a stink" to the hotel staff like $90/night is not worth this fucking shitty "4 star" room (but politely). I met the manager of the hotel, and he took me to another building and I stayed there for 7 nights.

If you can, go in person to scope out places BEFORE booking them. I couldn't because I was working night shifts and would have to book overlapping nights a lot while swapping cities and neighbourhoods.

It was a sources of anxiety, spending hours booking my next hotel room for another week.

That is a large part of why Japan and Vietnam BTFO Taiwan. I never had these gay issues except for smelly moldy bathrooms in a few Japan hotels, but not very often.

If I did my trip all over again, I'd only do Taipei for 7 days, and leave the country.

t. 1.5 months in hotels there.

pic was $85/night

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>>2871223
air smog this winter was ok (away from freeways and busy streets). It's the horribly stinky manholes every 20 feet that will make you wish you read these generals and heeded the advice. The cities in Taiwan smell from them. Also, many of these storm channels smelled horrible and I risks walking on the street to avoid them. Pic rel didn't have walk, but the ones that do smell of shit and rotten seabed

tons of content for you guys to review at
https://ayasequart.org/fts?boards=trv&title=taiwan&is_op=y

>>2871230
So what do they just dump their sewage and shit in the drains? Would you suggest a face mask so you don't have to breathe in the stink and air? I am taking a guess Taiwan has far better air quality than mainland China.

>>2865116
How do we get laid in taiwan?

>>2871252
A mask isn't going to help, unless you mean one of those spray paint fume fasks? Masks don't even work for covid.

Many restaurants do dumps their shit into the sewer. You can't tell because their storefronts smell like piss and rotten meat.

Taipei isn't so bad honestly. It's Taichung and Gaosiung and even many blocks in Hualien. I don't recall having any issues with stink in mainland china in 2015. What was bad was the car fumes. Just stay away from the busy streets with buses

Either country, just go to the countrysides

>>2871278
>pay for a flight ticket and go there
>book your hotel room and go there
>purchase a succulent Chinese meal for $6
>take the blue line back to your hotel
>strike up conversation with girl that catches your eye
>oh fuck she doesn't know English and is trying to ignore you
>that's ok because you got rizz and won't let that collapse your mojo
>next girl has a bf, awkwarddd
>keep going, faggot!!!
>next girl isn't as good looking but hey
>ahh, no English, come oonnn

>>2871135
Fuck the Taiwanese girls anyway. I'm more interested in scraping the parks for indo and flip migrant workers

u guys are disgusting

>>2871441
I have the same feeling, I regret high effort posting here.

>>2871441
>>2871460
Excuse me! I want to date a nice traditional girl from Indonesia or the Philippines and not a marriage-averse Taiwanese feminist. 4chan is outraged. Wtf has become of this place.

Taipei would be a better place if they banned stinky tofu and squid.

Also what's up with all the Japanese tourists shopping for Japanese stuff in Taipei? What even is the point of that?

>>2871477
>not a Taiwanese
Then don't come here.
>girl from Indonesia or the Philippines
Go there instead. Their populations are "more similar" to you.
>4chan is outraged
Outrage differs from disgust. Most teens don't confuse these emotions.
>Wtf has become of this place
You're a retard and people have gotten tired of it. Read your posts and just think how far from grace and beauty they are. Some people like ttt because despite being a horny faggot because he knows how to engage his brain, speak with grace, and does not beg others for help on how to have sex. You're a disgusting loser and any community having a stroke of bad luck from your presence surely prays you leave ASAP should you fail to stop being a loser.

>>2871833
>Then don't come here.
no
>Go there instead
no
>Outrage differs from disgust
no
>Read your posts and just think how far from grace and beauty they are.
Oh my gosh. I read my posts and started crying, they are so far from grace and beauty. There is anguished soul in those words, desperate for just three words that were absent for so long... "You are enough"

>>2871833
>any community having a stroke of bad luck from your presence surely prays you leave ASAP should you fail to stop being a loser.
Are you a non-native English speaker? This sentence is very clunky and unwieldy. It seems very aspirational, you're trying too hard. Keep learning and cadence and style will flow naturally. Just be yourself

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>>2871228
The shit smells are caused by a problem with the drain traps in the bathrooms. Sounds like you are very inexperienced at booking hotels if you are getting such awful rooms. All of my Taiwan rooms were clean and fresh-smelling inside, though one of the cheap rooms in Hualien had a very stuffy musty hallway area that was abominable to walk through. You had to shove back a rusty metal shutter every time you entered the building, then shove it closed and padlock it behind you. Very inconvenient. Many budget places I stayed at had absentee owners and were self check-in.
>>2871230
>>2871279
Olfactory hypersensitives should stay in their Western small town and avoid all travel to Asia. They are always going to be getting upset by some smell no matter where they go.
>>2871278
Extremely frigid young females in the big city, and an almost complete dearth of young women in the smaller towns. Worse dating scene than the West in every way.

>>2871875
>abominable hallway
It's this guy again kek

applied for my gold card brehs. I know I got spoiled by visiting Taiwan when the weather was perfect last week but I'm sure it's a place I want to try living in plus I want to improve my mandarin. If anyone has recommendations on apartments or areas to live (or avoid) please let me know

>>2872043
In the same position, gotten a monthly rental now and looking for long term, zuckbook seems to be the most foreigner friendly, I found one RE agent who has been great but still need to go check out the suburbs he gave me.
Ignoring cost I'd live in Daan or Zhongshan districts, not necessarily those mrt's but sourrnding suburbs, daan park is really nice
But for the same price you get a lot more in New Taipei. If you are willing to share they probably would be good choices but I need my own place

Flying to Taipei tomorrow. What are the costs in Taiwan compared to Thailand? Is it like double?

>>2872257
How the fuck do people actually travel like this? What are you putting down for the e-visa entry as a hotel? I get they basically don't check that often but wtf is this shit. Like do you intend to just walk around look for a hostel or hotel, give them a firm handshake and attempt to haggle some price?

Compared to Thailand you're looking at 2x minimum and that's staying in some rat den hostel in Ximen and we are talking basic bitch plywood bunkbeds. Realistically 2.5-3x is going to be the norm compared to say Bangkok, higher if you're trying to compare to Chang Mai. Kaohsiung is a bit cheaper but going to take some cash to get there.

>>2865116
should I go and teach english in taiwan? I'm thinking maybe because China just seems like a dystopian polluted commie dump to me. I already asked reddit this question but they are fucking retarded.

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>>2872260
>How the fuck do people actually travel like this? What are you putting down for the e-visa entry as a hotel? I get they basically don't check that often but wtf is this shit. Like do you intend to just walk around look for a hostel or hotel, give them a firm handshake and attempt to haggle some price?
What's the rant for? I don't get it. Why do assume I'm desperately poor because I asked about costs?
Anyway, it looks genuinely retarded for accomodation.

>>2872294
What the fuck lmao

>>2872277
Nobody needs english teachers anymore.

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>>2872257
>comparing Bangkok
Hotels and drinks, yeah
Food, about the same for better quality
Transport is cheap, youbikes are free for 30 minutes, I can cross half the city in that time, youbikes are peak TPE. Good luck riding a bike in Thailand cities

>>2872260
Put some shitty hotel down no one will notice. I wouldn't arrive anywhere without a booking though out of pure tiredness.

>>2872294
>it looks genuinely retarded for accommodation
It is but you're looking on airbnb too
And the weather is perfect right now.
Prices are double/triple what I was paying mid summer a few years ago

>>2871875
>Extremely frigid young females in the big city
What nonsense, I'm mid thirties and get cold approached in bars every few weeks. How young is young? If you think you're going to rock up as a bum who balks at a 250 ntd beer and will be drowing in 23yo Taiwanese cuties you're delusional. Either you're a western tier good looking chad bum or don't bother.
Asian cultures value youth highly, these women have all the prospects in the world and simps lining up down the road willing to spend their weekly wage just to take them out for dinner, you think you can compete with that?

All the people ITT complaining should perhaps go back to the third world shitholes where they feel like kings and locals bow in subservience to them? Taiwanese don't give a shit about you nor need your poor asses.

>>2871477
>marriage-averse Taiwanese feminist
Go back to the shithole from whence you crawled out of, that's not my experience at all lil chuddy

>>2872301
It's Word Dawg

>>2872294
>What's the rant for? I don't get it. Why do assume I'm desperately poor because I asked about costs?
because it shows a real bad lack of forward planning which is room temp IQ shit.
>Anyway, it looks genuinely retarded for accomodation.
And you asked why I thought you were poor yet you complain about some retarded shit like that.

Begpacker goes to Taiwan spotted

>>2872350
>because it shows a real bad lack of forward planning which is room temp IQ shit.
Lmao. If I wasn't concerned about the price until the night before I fly, that shows I'm financially comfortable, dipshit. Stop doing this retarded 4chan raging at everyone.

>>2872368
Anon, I didn't say anything about price in the sentence you quoted. Just having a place to get your bearings after landing so you can figure out a good area without just trying to figure it out is a nice peace of mind. Like you're going to sit in the airport for some amount of time to wait for your flight, so just showing up without a plan is just dumb.

No one is saying you need to plan the full stay but not at least having a 2-3 night stay booked seems silly. Even when I was 23-24 and traveling I knew enough to at least book something to get a feel for the area before I dug in.

>>2872370
Whatever anon

So is it like, a documented thing that women in Kaohsiung are hotter than the ones in Taipei? I just got to Kaohsiung yesterday and it seems like they've all got thicker asses, and they wear tighter and more revealing clothes. It seemed immediately apparent to me.

Maybe it's the warmer weather, or just being less of a business-class city?

>>2872463
You denigrate this thread with smut and lust. I tire of you anon. Be gone, and do not return. We speak of issues of salience here, we do not type with one hand on our semi-erect phalluses. You are banished. Do not return.

Taiwan’s is very much less visually appealing and somewhat rundown compared to the immaculate and organized streets of Japan.

>>2872475
Just about to fly to Taiwan. Used to live in China. China is immaculate. I guess Taiwan looks similar to Hong Kong in terms of cleanliness?

>>2872482
I've only been to Hong Kong briefly, but I'd say Hong Kong is somewhat cleaner than Taipei. Neither really has trash strewn about, but also I wouldn't exactly want to drop something on the floor and then eat it either.

One morning in Taipei I inexplicably saw dozens and dozens of dead/dying roaches on the sidewalk, for blocks, might have been from the rain or city spraying them out. Was pretty nasty.

Kaohsiung is similar to Taipei except smellier overall, especially due to the motor bikes and sewers.

Certainly not the cleanest place I've ever been but not bad.

complaining about language barriers in 2026 when you have ai translation is fucking crazy

>>2872475
taiwan is indistinguishable from okinawa

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>my gold card application has gotten a "supplemental documentation needed" pushback twice now
god damnit. I made well over $160k NTD at my job for the last 8 years (accounting) and they getting anal about what exactly I did since my CV can't be used as truth and the digital signed "this person was our employee and worked in finance" from my job (on company letterhead) was not sufficient apparently. I'm upset that everywhere I read, this application is usually painless besides having to wait for the visa to be issued. I'm a bit discouraged bros

>>2872475
Factually and objectively incorrect

>>2872482
>>2873123
Ximen is fucking trashed by 3am

>>2873231
Taiwanese ride around on scooters everywhere. They're also simultaneously dirty while being more uptight and autistic about rules than Japanese. Okinawans don't really give a fuck and are relaxed.

>>2872475
Taiwan isn't rundown in the sense of neglected maintenance. But buildings are discolored due to year-round high humidity, and nobody gives them a pressure wash with bleach. Taiwanese don't idolize flashy glamorous appearance as a general rule. Practical functionality is more important to them.
>>2873609
The low-class restaurants pour their waste into the gutters. Taiwanese love their soup, and all that leftover broth gets poured in a bucket and then dumped down a storm grate.
>uptight and autistic about rules
Only time I encountered this was when I boarded a Tze Chiang train with an ordinary second-class train ticket. The second-class train was delayed by four hours, so I "accidentally" boarded the wrong train when it pulled into the station. The conductor demanded I pay for a Tze Chiang ticket plus a fine, but I just as stubbornly insisted that such a penalty only applied to those traveling without a ticket, and I had a ticket from Hualien to Yilan. To compromise, I agreed to get off at the next stop, which was 50 km ahead and within range of the local trains serving Yilan County.

One self-checkin hotel had me send a video of me dropping the exact cash payment into a dropbox before they would send me the room code. Showing up to welcome your guest? Fuck no, nobody got time for that.

>>2865537
Disappointment and kidney damage.

>>2865633
Less to see and do than Taipei. Rents in Taipei aren't bad at all. It's easy to get to Taipei, of course, just hop on the HSR, but it take time and you'd better not miss the last train home or else you'll have to wait until the next morning.

Taoyuan has a lot more foreign factory workers, so it's easier to get laid there -- just go to the bars and clubs on the weekends and there will be hordes of Vietnamese and Thai girls who want to jump on a dick on their day off. IDK if Taichung has the same sort of scene there, they have factories so I assume they have foreign contract workers and the clubs for them tho.

>>2865644
I'm going to disagree with the trend here. You absolutely can luck into pulling a good wife, but she will be an older chick who is desperate to have kids before her biological clock runs out.

>>2865698
>slampig who pisses herself
hot!

>>2866011
>New Taipei City
IT'S TAIPEI COUNTY DAMMIT

I recommend the area up around Danshui. There are a couple of nice new buildings right by Hongshulin that are very convenient to the MRT and very inexpensive. I paid NT$20,000/mo for a top floor apartment with ocean view. Downside was that in summer my A/C was blasting on full power 24x7 to keep the place from incinerating me, easily US$300/mo in July and August.

>>2867359
Why the fuck aren't you shopping at Costco? You can buy Norway farmed salmon and "Boston butt" pork steaks for not much at all. Grab a couple of their chicken caesar salads from the food court to put in your fridge, they'll last two days and give you some roughage.

>>2869864
IDK if you're still looking, Anon, but try AirBNB. I got a really nice apartment in the Q-Square mall across from Taipei Main Station for something like $60/night. It was far better than any hotel I ever stayed in in the Taipei area. Only problem was that I had to go into the underground maze to get from that building to the MRT because the street-level road crossings are just fucking impossible.

>>2871228
>Many places smell like sewer shit.
This is because Taiwanese plumbers have not discovered the miracle of the U-trap. Seriously, if you check the pipes they just go straight down to the sewers. Depending on how the wind is blowing, it will often force air into the sewers and hence up into all of the apartments.

In my apartment, I literally had to tape over the drains on the floors. Once I did that, with the only open vent being in the shower (which had a 24x7 running vent fan), the smell was gone.

>>2869864
Here anon, me >>2873635 again.

This is the one I s tayed in, Price has gone way up:
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1435238200966478772?search_mode=regular_search&adults=1&check_in=2026-04-22&check_out=2026-04-27&children=0&infants=0&pets=0&source_impression_id=p3_1775055040_P3SZNMMv0SSuJWwG&previous_page_section_name=1000&federated_search_id=2abbdd5d-ac01-48fc-8c73-51cc7f70a416

Basically the entire upper floors of the building are apartments, and I think they're all AirBnBs -- there are multiple virtual "hotels" that have bought up most if not all of the units, and there was a sign on the guard desk with phone numbers to call for several different helplines for these virtual "hotels". Right now, looking at the AirBnB map zoomed in on that Q-Square mall, there are fifteen different prices listed for fifteen different rooms in that building. Here's another one for 20% less:

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/12897349?search_mode=regular_search&adults=1&check_in=2026-07-05&check_out=2026-07-10&children=0&infants=0&pets=0&source_impression_id=p3_1775055040_P37W_8gBEKtssmV-&previous_page_section_name=1000&federated_search_id=2abbdd5d-ac01-48fc-8c73-51cc7f70a416

If you zoom out a little on the AirBnB map, it looks like there are more available at other large mall-like buildings across the street and/or next to the Q-Square building. Lots of choices.

>>2873628
>Taoyuan has a lot more foreign factory workers, so it's easier to get laid there
I've been in Taoyuan for a week now, I haven't seen 1 brown Asian.
Anyone know which cities to find them? Thinking of moving to New Taipei or Kaohsiung. I want to meet some Indo or Flip migrant worker, get married and breed her. The Taiwanese girls that match me on Tinder are low quality. Need brown and desperate. Please give advice

>>2873611
>and nobody gives them a pressure wash with bleach. Taiwanese don't idolize flashy glamorous appearance as a general rule
There's some really nice buildings around with full stone exteriors but otherwise this is spot on
The humidity fucks everything you see it all over SEA too

>>2873800
>The humidity fucks everything you see it all over SEA too
Shut up retard, Bangkok, KL and Singapore do not look like Taiwan because muh humidity

Some things I've noticed about Taiwan compared to China (lived in Chongqing 2 years)
>TW food is better
>TW people are friendlier
>TW people speak English more gooder
>safer to cross the road in TW. Cars stop for you
>Uglier matches on dating apps
>Scruffier, grittier but more character streets in TW
>So many bolt hole restaurants look like they've been running since the 60s
>TW people will wait for 10 minutes for a green walk light at a zebra crossing in a 7 foot wide alley at night with no cars in sight

Anyone keen to try drinks again this weekend?
May as well go Maji, if it works it works

>>2873804
Yes they do what are you talking about?
The black mold stuff is all over those cities
Singapore does a little bit more to clean up because 70% of the buildings are government owned and get more regular cleans but otherwise its literally the same thing as in Taiwan
t.lived in all of those places for over a year

>>2873805
It's a headfuck coming from seamonkey land where people will actually stop for you at crosswalks here
I've been beaten down so hard by south east asia that I stop and give way to cars on them out of instinct

>>2873787
>brown and desperate
kek, please keep us updated anon