20 years and a snack
20 years and a snack
I'm having a little private celebration today, sitting in a hotel room in Beijing, waiting for a train. Today marks the start of my 20th year here. I stepped off the plane in Taipei in 1988 and thought to myself, "What is that smell?" Now whenever I arrive in Beijing I think the same thing. Actually, to be fair, the past couple of days it's rained the hardest it's had in 40 years apparently (felt like a normal afternoon storm in Taipei to me), so today everything is clear and beautiful and fresh and green with that just rained feel in the air. A good day to mark 20 years.
Anyway, to celebrate this historic event, I went down to the convenience store to pick up one of my favorite snacks, the tasty Twix bar, to enjoy with my afternoon tea and conference calls.
After paying RMB15 for my crunchy chewy snack, I'm thinking, gee how much is that in NT$? Because it seemed to me that a Twix bar in Taiwan costs something like NT$20, which is only RMB5. How's that for Olympic sized inflation?
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Congratulations on the anniversary!
J.
Hey! Congratulations. But what happened to the KitKat as the favourite snacks bar?
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I've never figured out whether it's pronounced "Moe's (like owned by one of three stooges) or Moss (like that guy out of Bonanza), but the one down the hill from me is open until 2am most days, which means that if I get out of the club early enough, I can catch the best burger in town, the muo si la bao or the Spicy Mos Burger. They have lots of jalapenos and 
