Reporter
OCT 6
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 30
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 12
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 11
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 11
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 11
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 3
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 30
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 25
A 12-image street photography carousel finds Taipei’s color in apartment facades, food preparation, temple ornament, traffic, and electric night streets.
AUG 25
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.
AUG 25
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.
AUG 25
Sky Religion occupies a former steakhouse inside Taipei’s Linjiang Street Night Market. Daniel Hu Interior turned the narrow, windowless building into a vertical sequence of worship spaces shaped by mirrors, reflected light, and a Guanyin statue spanning multiple levels.
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