This morning my mission was to find a stand or restaurant that sold hot and sour soup. Drew told me it was near the train station where I go to work but I still have yet to find it. A lot has to do with the fact that I can't read any of the traditional characters since I learned simplified and I don't know that many characters in general. There was a morning market going on since it was Sat. morning so I ended up buying some clothes. Yes, I gave in sadly. I wanted to find some good work clothes and I looked at these jean shorts and since I was shopping in a stand, there was no fitting room. I always try on the clothes before I buy it but I had no choice this time. Well I asked the guy what size it was since the sizes are all different here and it didn't say. Yeah it was an XL..good thing I didn't buy it. Then I bought some shorts that were a little tight on me :( Oh well lol I bought two pairs and it only cost me $4USD. Yay!! Then I tried to find the soup and I ended up gawking at a sign at one of the vendor stands and the seller was trying to help me. She actually made me really good noodle soup so I will try to go there again. Then I got lost since I was walking around and trying to be brave and adventurous. I asked a policeman if he knew where Mr. Onion is at because it's the name of a restaurant which is what my roommates and I call the "landmark" near our apartment, well that or the cement building lol The policeman looked at me all confused and said no..then I was like oh ok. He says in English, sorry! I said it's okay. So I walk two blocks to find Mr. Onion lol I guess the English translation of the restaurant is not the same so no wonder he was confused. I asked so many people about Mr. Onion. I need to figure out how to say the Chinese name of the restaurant.
Tonight Cala, Drew, his friend Claire from work and my coworker, and I played mahjong. For all who don't know, mahjong is a card game used with tiles which have circles, numbers, etc. It's like the card game gin where you need 5 sets of 3 which can be straights or one of a kind and 1 two pair. I learned mahjong when I was 4 and I would play when my family and I would go to Chinese gatherings. Not to be conceited but I would usually win but my family and I use different rules. Well we are all poor so we only bet 1元 which is roughly 32 cents in U.S. money. Taiwan uses coins for the lower amounts like 1,5,10,25,50 but 100元 and higher comes in dollar form. There are no cents in the Taiwan currency. Then we played this game where it's called liar's cup where you have cups with dice and you figure out how many numbers are in each cups. So we played mostly mahjong and then the other game twice and I won a total of over 40元. Maybe I should have betted with higher money.. just kidding..ok maybe not..
-Chihchat
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