2024-02-20 14:29
The Provincial Highway 9 Ruishui Marker (above) marks the Tropic of Cancer, 23.5 degrees on the northern latitude, in Taiwan. The spot was developed in 1933 by the Japanese colonial governme… Read More
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2023-05-29 03:13
Casablanca
was filmed in a studio in California. But it does copy actual streets and
buildings of Casablanca.
Rick’s Café
Americain is still open today. Black and white photog… Read More
2023-02-05 15:25
My family rented a car and we drove out to Greater Yilan two Mondays ago. We stayed at the Lakeshore Hotel Suao, a five-star hotel with adjoining hotspring and coldspring tubs in the room.&n&hell…Read More
2022-08-19 03:50
Western Fisher Island, Pescadores: The Western Fort on Fisher Island dates back to 1681. Built two years before the fall of the Koxinga Dynasty in Taiwan, the battery was meant to defend the… Read More
2022-02-09 12:37
This report came out of Tainan instead of Tamsui from the British Consul, R.W. Hurst, late 1895. Hurst is commenting on the state of Taiwan eight months after China ceded Taiwan to Japan. He… Read More
2021-11-14 19:04
初訪，再也不會去！問老闆「你會講中文嗎？」然後… Read More
2021-07-24 15:56
As an outsider biding his time time in Taiwan, I am concerned about a pandemic spread out of China a year and a half ago and repercussions, the sloppy and hypocritical behavior of the govern… Read More
2021-06-08 06:23
Taiwan has been fairly locked down for around a month now. We can still go out, but the schools are online now and most offices are doing the same. On Monday, we were informed we could only… Read More
2021-02-01 10:28
I noticed from a higher place that Lalu Island, in Sun Moon Lake, is actually moated. In Chinese, Lalu (拉魯) means "marinated," but it seems more likely the word comes out of… Read More
2020-11-23 09:43
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2018-08-20 06:29
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2016-03-19 18:53
There has been response to my wife's recent FB post: "Self defense is the natural reaction to protect yourself if someone attack or intimidate you. I think that is the right way to figh… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
My friend Nigel is opening a restaurant / scuba diving shop in Fulong (福隆) this coming weekend. Festivities will get under way at noon, March 15. There is more information… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I plan to get back to blogging soon. At the moment, I am interested in cotton imports through Tamsui, Taiwan in the late 1870s and early 1880s. This is what the British Consul, Mr. T. Watter… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Walt Whitman (1819 to 1892) included this poem in Leaves of Grass, which he was still editing on his deathbed:ONCE I pass’d through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for futur… Read More
2016-03-03 08:51
I often cross Zhongzheng Bridge on foot late at night, on my way home to Taipei after I shut down my restaurant, which is located in New Taipei City (Greater… Read More
2015-04-16 16:03
Local personality, Gary Patterson.Gary Patterson is involved in the English-speaking comedy scene here in Taipei. Over the past few decades, Patterson and other comedic rovers have been maki… Read More
2015-01-13 18:58
Chris is showing Marathon Man, starring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Schneider, this Thursday (Jan. 15) at the museum: http://goo.gl/dnM2lU I've been attending these scr… Read More
2015-01-10 19:05
An ad for Popeye pens. There isn't a date, but the Japanese writing probably places it from 1929 to 1945. The pens were availabe at Huashanting, an area just east of the Taipei Train Station… Read More
2014-07-27 17:41
The Stories of Our Feathered Friends, by Austin D. BrigmanWe have been running an art exhibit at The Hammer. I had been meaning to do something along these linesever since we opened twoyears… Read More
2014-07-10 18:05
We have our first Taiwan-based craft beer via the 23 Brewing Company at our The Hammer restaurant. It's called #1 Pale Ale. I mean to come back with a post about what we've been up to recent… Read More
2013-09-19 15:52
I had meant to have a meal in Beitou's (北投的) Star-plucking Restaurant for ages. The Star-plucking Restaurant, which opened thirteen years ago, appealed to me for a coupl… Read More
2013-09-16 11:14
I've been reading up on Taiwan in 1895, just to get a feel for what was going on at the time China dumped the island on Japan as part of the Treaty of Shimoneseki. Just doing the math, it's… Read More
2013-09-08 02:32
This picture has been circulating through social media today thanks to Formosa Vintage Museum Cafe. I want to post it on my blog as it was taken in a corner of Wanhua (萬華). The… Read More
2013-09-05 19:36
My friend eyedoc, who runs a blog on Taiwan history and culture among other things, http://danshuihistory.blogspot.tw/, sent me this letter, which was used by then Taiwan president… Read More
2013-08-26 16:25
Taxi, a photo by Patrick Cowsill on Flickr.I took the above taxi yesterday. I asked the driver about the two American flags sticking out the back. He asked me if I knew about San Francisco… Read More
2013-07-29 03:43
Untitled, a photo by Patrick Cowsill on Flickr.I took this shot the last time I was in Jinguashi (金瓜石). The restaurant, which serves taro soup and ribbon fish, is above… Read More
2013-04-02 20:32
My friends are cynical about seeing the monuments of rock and pop in concert, and so am I. Usually the sound in the venues is awful, so you can't hear much of anything. Then there's the cost… Read More
2013-03-11 06:40
Yang San Lang (楊三郎)Shufang, Ahleena and I decided to check out the Yang San Lang Art Museum (楊三郎美書館) today: https://www.f… Read More
2013-01-07 06:32
Three customers at my restaurant made this documentary about Chang Chia-che (張嘉哲), a marathoner from Taiwan. There's some really good stuff here, for example, Chang's in… Read More
2013-01-01 16:30
One of our customers took these shots of The Hammer's vicinity. I asked him to send them to me as I liked the tone. I also enjoy these kinds of photographs of Taipei and Taipei Greater. I of… Read More
2012-12-31 22:04
I received this email from Anne Wheeler. She's the daughter of Ben Wheeler, a Canadian doctor who was held at Kinkeseki (金瓜石), Taiwan during the Second World War. She is… Read More
2012-12-17 16:32
I know I promised to stop with The Hammer posts. But my wife is so beautiful that I can't help myself. This is it for a while. Here's our last shameless address link: No. 14 - Lane 9, W… Read More
2012-12-16 02:07
Upstairs at The HammerMy friend Doug http://www.thecyclingcanadian.com/ was sitting at the bar of my new restaurant when he noticed people were passing by, peering in and moving along… Read More
2012-12-02 03:29
My friend Vincent (the Vinster) Stoia has just finished his first novel. It will be published on January 1. It's a horror story that takes place in China. I don't want to give away too much… Read More
2012-11-17 20:31
I'll put up a couple from shots from my wife's iPhone covering renovations at the The Hammer: No. 14 - Lane 9, Wanhua Road, Younghe, New Taipei City / 新台北市 ……Read More
2012-11-16 17:53
We're probably going to open our new restaurant, The Hammer, this Saturday: No. 14 - Lane 9, Wanhua Road, Yonghe, New Taipei City / 新北市永和區文… Read More
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