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25/03/2007: "TAIPEI FAST FOOD....... Fashion-lady tucker"
For about AUS$1.30 (NT$30) a cup of noodle soup with spices sold by street vendor in the Double Bay (Sydney) equivalent area. My favourite vegetarian (across the lane) restaurant was (shock) being renovated!
The street sign nearby shows a typical residential address. I stayed near here during my first two visits and returned out of sentimentality yesterday afternoon.
Weekends are always busy in Taiwan. I saw thousands and thousands of faces in the street and in the very crowded and spotless modern underground rail system, and not one single foreigner. Usually there are a couple seen somewhere.
English Second Language teachers earn terrific wages here and would mostly be the occasional foreigner seen. Some have a status equal to an entertainer in Australia.
A great lifestyle for any half-smart English native language speaker. You don't need to be able to speak Chinese either.
The trick is not to sign up to any employer for more than a few months if you can - that way you can change jobs as experience develops and increase your pay rate with each self-promotion.
This won’t happen easily or even at all especially if you commit to a year in advance.
(The free airfare offered is peanuts. Check the island out in advance before signing up to company and do everything properly with your own double-checking to avoid getting deported).
