If a noodle falls in the forest... -

If a noodle falls in the forest...

Corbett | August 17, 2006 9:49 AM

I'm sitting in CKS airport, which you can only describe as a "cute" airport, and am having breakfast in the Au Bon Pain area, which also has a greasy joint in the back that serves up some ok dan zai mian. So I pass on the croissants and Pierrer for some Taiwanese hot noodles and a boiled egg. I look around and notice that I'm the only foreigner, which is not that unusual, but everyone else is eating Au Bon Pain, except me.

So I have a brief identity crisis. Since eating Taiwanese noodles at the airport would seem to be a common Taiwanese thing to do, definitely not a Westerner's first choice, this suggests that I'm probably more locally influenced now than Western. But when looking at all the other Taiwanese scarfing down their croissant sandwiches and bagles, if I were really localized, I'd be eating what they are eating - and acting like a Westerner.

Category: Mr. Asia

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