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Toilet Restaurants

I have not yet visited this novelty, and I don't have plans to do so. I heard the food tastes like shit, and it certainly looks like it. The Toilet Bowl Modern Toilet

Greatest Sports Team Name Ever

It can only be the Taiwan Beer .

Misc. Links

Most of these sites have no relation to Taiwan or Taipei, but I find them useful, interesting, or amusing. e4ward forwards email from disposable addresses http://e4ward.com/ Free 1GB Data Storage http://www.esnips.com Freeware Directory http://www.freewarehome.com/ Merriam-Webster Dictionary http://www.m-w.com/ Quicktopic Bulletin Board Forums http://www.quicktopic.com World Time http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page More links: Country Calling Code Reverse Lookup: http://www.countrycallingcodes.com/Reverse-Lookup.php US Area Codes: http://www.bennetyee.org/ucsd-pages/area.html Cubed Root Calculator: http://www.csgnetwork.com/cuberootcubecalc.html What the hell is volumetric weight? http://www.dhl.com/publish/g0/en/tools/volume.high.html

Betel Nut

Bing1 Lang2 檳榔 betel nut 檳榔西施 bing1 lang2 xi1 shi1, betel nut beauty Betel nut and the girls who sell it are part of Taiwan's modern day culture although the days of the provactively dressed girls has come to an end in Taipei. This has not affected the betel nut's popularity and now more modestly dressed girls sell it from their roadside cubicles. The farther you get from Taipei the less the girls are wearing until ultimately they may be naked, but I clearly have never gotten this far from the city as I am still waiting to confirm this rumor. Boris Artemieff was so inspired that he published a book of photos. Read his two cents here. Betel Nut General Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betel_nut Betel Nut Beauties: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betel_nut_beauty http://www.seadolby.com/taiwan/betel.html http://briandavidphillips.typepad.com/brian/betelnut_beauties/index.html http://www.chefan.com/misc-movs/betelnut.html http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/20/taiwan_betel_nu...