Sticky Pics

Thursday Night I had my first Taipei night market experience. For those of you who don't know what a night market is, imagine a mall in the states… except instead of a building you get a set of streets, instead of American Eagle you get "Poon's Pants", instead of Hot Dog on a Stick you get Stinky Tofu on a stick, and instead of a few goth teens you get an explosion of 10 million locals all speaking Chinese and stepping on each other's feet.

No loitering!

Naomi, Kaylah, Audri, Deb and I perused the premises for a good while, looking at all the knock-off stores and illegal street vendors who will literally vanish into thin air at the first sign of cops. We tried on a few hats, I bought a new pair of aviators for a couple dollars (I'm sure they're real), and then we got down to the food zone for some awesome chicken wrap things that I will never be able to eat again because I don't remember the name.

It's all good though, because now I look awesome.

Eventually, Kaylah and Deb took off, and the rest of us went over to puppy lane where locals can buy dogs that appear to be specially bred to look more like large mice than the K9s they descended from. Of course, it's so crowded here in the city that any dog bigger than your hand would end up looking like a goldfish in a bowl anyway, but that still doesn't make them dogs in my book!

After laughing at the freaks of nature, we made our way over to get some shaved ice, imitate Brian Regan a little, and take some sticky pics.

These are sticky pics. Note: the word "manly" doesn't seem to translate well here.

It was a great experience, and it's something I recommend everyone does when they travel to Asia. It's also the only place around where you can buy a baby porcupine, so there's that too I guess.