The Tianmu Neighborhood

Hi again. This time I'll be posting up pictures from around my hometown 天母(pronounced tyen-mu)

A September afternoon in Taipei

The first picture here is a photograph of the view from outside my bedroom on the 11th floor. Typically the window is really grimy (due to the plentiful dust/dirt pollution in the area) so I likely opened the window and took a picture. Underneath I've provided two other pictures of what it looks like in December, both day and night.

In the night picture you can see light pollution from inner-city Taipei. Sometimes when it's not too cloudy, you can even see tiny electronic billboards playing advertisements from all the way over there. It's pretty cool.

This is a picture of a chain pot-sticker/dumpling place called 八方雲集 (Ba fang yun ji), or literally "8 Directions Cloud Gather" The title basically means that people come from all 8 directions (the cardinal and inner cardinal directions) and gather to the restaurant like clouds. They have really great dumplings, and there are 2 or 3 stores in the neighborhood.
You can see people in orange shirts working on the pot-stickers and dumplings at the front of the store.


















Here's a picture from the 2011 TAS Food Fair. Basically a fundraising opportunity for restaurants and clubs, as well as a place for bands and music people to play their stuff.

Since I actually have a lot of pictures from this event, I'll just quickly post them.

A Turkish ice cream tent

A Coca-Cola Tent (they sell soda)

the Korean tent, where they sell spicy rice cakes and bulgogi

Basically you pay to pie this guy - some fundraising event

another fundraising event

I'm not sure who these people are but they look a little too old for this

yummy looking apples

It says 韓國歡迎你, or "Korea welcomes you" in Chinese

 
another fundraising minigame - utensil trebuchet. The blocky video is a testament to how old the footage is: in 4 years we've come so far!

I ended up staying until the end (since my mom was working at the Korea tent), so I took a picture

Okay I guess the Food Fair part did end up being a little bit of a photo dump. I'll try to limit that from now on. And I've started alternating between TW pics and CA pics, so maybe that'll be a thing.