"Bu Tai Gue Le" How to Piss Off The Waitress and Still Get Her Digits
By Joshua Dent Taiwan women, Thailand women, Viet Nam women, Indonesian women, Filipino women, American women, are just a few of the different kinds of women that you come across here in "The Taiwan." Needles to say, at 35 and single, it didn't take moving to Taiwan for me to realize I understand NONE of them. Today, in The Jongli, was a rather unique day. The weather was fair for this time of the year. It is almost always overcast, with some sort of drizzle, or threat of rain ahead. Luckily, it is getting a little warmer. So, the drizzle doesn't bring that bone-chilling cold that the humid winter months seem to bring on the northern part of the island. After my two hour Chinese class this morning, I decided I was going to visit this Vietnamese restaurant situated by the train station. It had ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with me actually wanting Vietnamese food. It had everything to do with the waitress that worked there. She didn't wait on me the last t...