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  1. OCT 6Design

    A Telephoto View Compresses Taiwan’s Streets and Stations

    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.

    A telephoto view down Taipei’s Xining South Road, with cars and dense layers of Chinese storefront signs beneath green traffic signals.

  2. SEP 30Food

    Fukuoka’s Imaya Hamburger Opens Its First Overseas Shop in Taipei

    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.

    Founder Katsumi Imazaki flashes a peace sign beside a younger cook in a stainless steel kitchen, with burger patties on a griddle in front of them.

  3. SEP 17Tech

    Cheng-Wei Hu Left Google to Build an AI Learning Startup

    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.

    Cheng-Wei Hu stands in front of sailboats and their reflections at a marina around sunset.

  4. SEP 12Entertainment

    PamaSleepLa Builds a Taipei Cafe Around Retro Games

    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.

    Visitors play retro games at counters lining a narrow Taipei cafe filled with old screens, game artwork, and orange pendant lamps.

  5. SEP 11Culture

    A Japanese AI Grandma Game Lands in a Taiwanese Feed

    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.

    An Instagram graphic with Traditional Chinese headlines surrounding an AI-generated scene of an older woman confronting a cyclist in a mock open-world video game.

  6. SEP 11Humor

    A Comedy Reel Translates Taiwanese Politeness Into Blunt English

    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.

    Ellery, wearing a black tank top, raises his eyebrows beneath a bilingual title and two joke translations: ‘也許可以 = probably not’ and ‘可能不行喔 = absolutely not.’

  10. AUG 30Culture

    Taipei’s Ahhh Pairs Pickleball With a Cocktail Bar

    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.

    A brightly colored indoor pickleball court with a black net, a basket of balls, and an illuminated Ahhh logo on the wall.

  11. AUG 29Food

    Yuan Fang Guabao Has Served Pork Belly Buns Since 1955

    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.

    Staff work behind the Yuan Fang Guabao counter beneath an illuminated 源芳刈包 sign, while an older man stands beside the stall.

  12. AUG 29Tech

    Claude Use in Taiwan Is More Work-Focused Than in the United States

    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.

    A black carousel card in Chinese introducing Anthropic's June 2026 country-level Claude usage data and asking how people in Taiwan use AI.

  14. AUG 28Design

    Danjiang Bridge at Sunset Over the Tamsui River

    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.

    Danjiang Bridge stands above the Tamsui River at sunset, with the sun centered beneath its single tower and dark tree branches framing the upper edge.

  15. AUG 28Humor

    A Mazda Driver Is Barred From a Gangster Meeting

    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.

    A man in a dark suit sits before a brick wall during a tense meeting scene, with Chinese subtitles at the bottom.

  16. AUG 28Food

    Yo Sushi Jinhua Serves Evening Omakase at an Open Counter

    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.

    Diners sit behind the glass frontage of Yo Sushi Jinhua at night, beside an illuminated lantern bearing the restaurant's name.

  17. AUG 27Food

    Hasumentei Serves Ramen in a Showa-Style Dining Room

    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.

    Hasumentei’s Shilin storefront at night, with the illuminated 荷麵亭 sign above wooden doors, a red vending machine, and an empty bench.

  18. AUG 26Food

    Fu Ba Wang Serves Braised Pork Knuckle by the Cut

    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.

    Staff plate orders at Fu Ba Wang Pork Knuckle's open storefront beneath the gold 富霸王豬腳 sign.

  19. AUG 25Culture

    Shilin Night Market Grew From a Temple Forecourt

    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.

    The front of Cixian Temple in Taipei, with rows of red and gold lanterns framing its carved roofline and a large incense burner centered before the steps.

  21. AUG 25Design

    Zaha Hadid’s Danjiang Bridge Leaves Room for the Sunset

    The 920-meter Danjiang Bridge now links Tamsui and Bali at the mouth of northern Taiwan’s Tamsui River. An interview with its project architect and photographs from a first-crossing event show how the bridge combines a single sculptural tower, a slim steel deck, and unusually restrained infrastructure design.

    A high-angle view down the bridge deck, with a concrete tower centered between dense rows of white cables and a crowd filling the lanes on both sides.

  22. AUG 25Design

    A Century-Old Tainan House Puts Its Repairs on Display

    A century-old courtyard residence in Tainan has been adapted into an exhibition venue without concealing the difference between its historic fabric and new interventions. Exposed masonry, a folded timber roof, and repairs that emphasize existing cracks turn the building itself into part of the exhibition.

    The inner courtyard of a restored two-story residence in Tainan, with weathered gray walls, carved facade details, new wood doors, and Chinese headline text across the lower half.

  23. AUG 25Design

    Taipei’s Theater of Stacked Boxes and a Sphere

    OMA won the 2009 competition for Taipei Performing Arts Center with a proposal that joined three theaters to a central cube. Completed in 2022 beside Shilin Night Market, the building carries that early experiment into a public venue for performance and everyday circulation.

    A nighttime aerial view shows Taipei Performing Arts Center’s silver spherical playhouse projecting from a dark central cube, with rectangular theater volumes and the illuminated city and river beyond.

  25. AUG 25Food

    Taipei’s Extra-Long Pig Blood Cake Comes Coated in Peanuts and Cilantro

    Zhu Dalang serves one of Taiwan’s most familiar street snacks on an unusually long skewer, coating the steamed blood-and-sticky-rice cake with sauce, peanut powder, and cilantro. Photos from a franchise stall show how the snack is made, while a recent price increase reveals how even a classic small purchase is changing.

    A Zhu Dalang sign and a posted notice saying pig blood cake costs NT$50 from May 1.

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