OCT 6Filed by WDesign
Taiwanese photographer Tony, who posts as TH PIC, uses a telephoto lens to compress traffic, signs, railway platforms, and distant hills into tightly layered scenes. An Instagram carousel moves from Taipei’s Xining South Road to Mudan Station in New Taipei.
SEP 30Filed by WFood
Imaya Hamburger, a Fukuoka shop known for long sandwiches filled with hamburger patties and griddled cabbage, has opened its first location outside Japan in Taipei’s Songshan District. The Taiwanese branch carries over a style developed by founder Katsumi Imazaki more than half a century ago.
SEP 17Filed by WTech
Taiwanese engineer Cheng-Wei Hu helped build NotebookLM at Google, then left before turning 30 to co-found Wondering, an AI learning startup in Y Combinator’s Summer 2026 batch. A CommonWealth Magazine profile traces his decision to an upbringing centered on freedom, responsibility, and ambitious long-term planning.
SEP 12Filed by WEntertainment
PamaSleepLa (爸媽睡了) is a cafe in Taipei where visitors play cartridge consoles and handheld games among vintage packaging, character art, and old television screens. An Instagram Reel offers a quick tour of its narrow, densely packed game room.
SEP 11Filed by WCulture
A Traditional Chinese entertainment account excerpted a Japanese AI-generated parody of an open-world video game and framed it for its own audience. The repost offers a small look at how Japanese internet humor reaches viewers in Taiwan through familiar language and local media habits.
SEP 11Filed by WHumor
Taiwan-based American comedian Ellery pairs polite Mandarin phrases with exaggerated English subtext, building a 32-second glossary of refusals, delays, apologies, and irritation. The joke lives in the gap between what is said and what listeners are expected to understand.
SEP 11Filed by WHumor
Instagram creator Maori gathers popular Taiwanese Threads posts that turn misheard Mandopop lyrics into deadpan visual jokes. The Reel moves from Jolin Tsai and Jay Chou to Guanyin and mushrooms in 82 escalating seconds.
SEP 5Filed by WCulture
A 21-second video shows a troop of Taiwanese macaques climbing down a dormitory facade at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung. The campus borders Shoushan, where macaque encounters have long been part of student life.
SEP 3Filed by WFood
The Kaohsiung-born restaurant has redesigned its Taipei branch around the colors of water and oolong tea, while adding new set meals and tea-based drinks. The location sits on the third floor of Breeze Xinyi in Taipei’s Xinyi District.
AUG 30Filed by WCulture
Ahhh Pickleball Social Hub combines a single indoor pickleball court with a bar, lounge seating, and private gathering space in central Taipei. Its drinks extend the sports theme with three low-alcohol cocktails named for moments in a match.
AUG 29Filed by WFood
Yuan Fang Guabao has operated at Huaxi Street Night Market since 1955, serving steamed buns with braised pork belly, preserved mustard greens, sweetened ground peanuts, and cilantro. A bowl of four herbs soup or mixed offal soup completes the traditional pairing.
AUG 29Filed by WTech
Anthropic's May 2026 Claude data places Taiwan 31st among 121 countries on a population-adjusted usage index. Compared with the United States, Claude use in Taiwan was more concentrated in work, software development, and data analysis, but the dataset does not measure all AI use.
AUG 29Filed by WHumor
A friend mistook ChunChun Chen’s snowy photos from Jungfrau for Qigu Salt Mountain in Tainan. The replies became a collection of similar mix-ups, with the Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, Hawaii, and other destinations recast as familiar places in Taiwan.
AUG 28Filed by WDesign
A four-photo Reddit gallery catches Danjiang Bridge as its tower and cables cut across a red sunset over the Tamsui River. One frame turns toward Guanyin Mountain, placing the new crossing within the estuary landscape it was designed to preserve.
AUG 28Filed by WHumor
In a clipped scene from the 1997 Taiwan-set political thriller Island of Greed (黑金), arriving late in a Mazda becomes grounds for exclusion. The insult later took on a second life as a Chinese-language internet joke.
AUG 28Filed by WFood
A 2021 visit to Yo Sushi Jinhua documents an evening omakase served across a long sequence of seafood, nigiri, grilled fish, soup, and dessert. The restaurant places diners around an open wooden counter where they can watch each course being prepared.
AUG 27Filed by WFood
Hasumentei’s Shilin branch pairs Japanese-style ramen with a compact dining room built around vintage signs, wooden fixtures, and counter seating. A 2025 visit documents several broth styles, fried side dishes, and a system that allowed diners to request additional noodles and broth.
AUG 26Filed by WFood
Fu Ba Wang is a busy Taipei restaurant specializing in braised pork knuckle served by section, either on a plate or in a rice bento. Blake's review documents the storefront line, ordering system, side dishes, and different cuts of pork.
AUG 25Filed by WCulture
Before Shilin Night Market spread through the surrounding streets, trade gathered around Cixian Temple and a public market built across from it. Universities, cinemas, road construction, and a 12-year market reconstruction later transformed the district, but the temple forecourt remains one of its historical anchors.
AUG 25Filed by WDesign
A 12-image street photography carousel finds Taipei’s color in apartment facades, food preparation, temple ornament, traffic, and electric night streets.
