By Rebecca Kehl – Dec 2015 In this article, a mystery will be revealed before your very eyes… It is the 2-fold challenge of curing modern man’s addiction to plastic. I shall reveal the mystery now, at the beginning, to save you all the suspense. The answer is: Completely adapting to a life of reuseables (the way it was before the…
Read moreA preview to the WILD FEAST this coming New Year's Eve in Chingchuan! Gonna be fantastic. Check this out – The Wild East’s Wild Feast! What can be better than being able to spend the weekend and your New Year’s outside the crush and smog of the city? ChingChuan, located in the mountains of Hsinchu,…
Read moreThe place in Kaohsiung where I can buy my garlic-chemical toast, or perhaps some other chemical-toast offerings. By Frank V., for The Wild East Offering my Hungarian-Jew-style comedy to Taipei Comedy Club guests for the third time some weeks ago, I felt the support of the local audience again, which is the best drug for…
Read moreA Hello Kitty Happy Meal. The Wild East / Comedy Got off the bus. Saw the yellow arches and headed towards that venerable international institution. My friend, whose birthday it is this evening, may have looked back from his seat on the bus and wondered why I hadn’t entered the MRT station. Instead, I made…
Read moreThe best in unpretentious fine dining can be had at Le Rouge restaurant in Banciao. Photo: Le Rouge Review by Trista di Genova / The Wild East How do you eat it at Le Rouge French-Italian Restaurant? As often as you can. I still recall the incredible Thanksgiving dinner Zacharie Touzin single-handedly pulled off some…
Read moreAntonio Tardi is artisan as much as chef at Far Eastern Hotel's Marco Polo Restaurant in Taipei. Photo: Courtesy of Shangri-La By Trista di Genova / The Wild East Preview of upcoming article for Wine & Dine magazine Hungering for a taste of the fine Italian cuisine of my ancestors, the folks at Far Eastern…
Read morefricken YuM by Trista di Genova There’s this little place deep in the Heart of Banciao where they admittedly have some great shui-jiao but some lousy, cheese-emporium-like service. When I ordered some curry dumplings, they said they were all out – mai wan le so I tried to score some Korea-style dumplings and they were…
Read moreSetting up shop for the feeding frenzy to come. Photo: Outwards magazine, TMU By Trista di Genova, The Wild ‘Eats’ Today I was reminded again, that more than baseball, more than mahjong, betel-nut chewing or basketball, the nation’s national sport is actually to ‘eat something’. This was made ever-so-clear today at the International Day food…
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Jenna on the mandolin. Photo: TdG By Taipei Potluck & Music Circle – 大安公園共享音樂餐會 WHEN: Sunday, November 6 · 3:00pm – 10:00pm, Taipei, Taiwan Location: Da An Park – 大安森林公園 Walk north from the Heping / Jian Guo Road Corner edge of the park, to the second pavillion. Call if you can’t find it, but…
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