This one being somehow a new category in my blog, is also one of my favorites. I haven’t published much lately and I have no excuses, and I’m not even justifying myself for that. But this doesn’t matter, important is the story when you find it, and when you find it, it’s a glory for the author, when you read it.
Kaohsiung from harbour (Wikipedia)
I’ve worked with many people, some said I have a real talent working with them. I may differ, because even if today I’m wiser, when I was young I haven’t much patience with people in general. I liked to hitchhike because of the speed, it was funny between cities, but I didn’t really like to make conversation with the people, and I was content indeed when the driver who had the kindness to take me, was also not a “real talker”.
I was lucky, and I always thought that what you attract is what is going to stick with you, and even if my loving partner redefined yet again this fact, it is true that we are attracting on us everything we deserve. I have visited China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, some city in Japan, important only to mankind, called Nagasaki (some times I wonder if I may joke around these days, I hope I do), Korea, the both of them, actually, but in North Korea I wasn’t allowed, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia. I shall write a little something from every place I ever stepped, I hope.
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In Kaohsiung, I met a Catholic priest, an Italian with some business there and some Romanians, in trouble, unfortunately. The times were fishy for countries like Romania, the job market could have been a roulette. Some employers were just crooks, but a lot of people were traded like slaves on the labor market, by the agents in their niches. I was proposed not once to establish such an agency, but my terms of respecting the people involved were not the same with the terms of potential partners. They say one can’t gain if he is too humanitarian in intent, which is bad indeed. Wealth could be something to make a difference, but massed in a few places it makes a difference just for the owners. My ideas compelled a sort of reward by merit and experience, with bonuses for every sort of economy the personnel would have made for us, and as a matter of gaining it would have been enough, a decent life with a decent trade.
Evergreen Hotel, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Kaohsiung, the fourth port in the world at a time, and now one of the most important container ports in the world anyway, in terms of merchandise trading and storage capacity, type of transport and storage, to be exact, is just a pretext to remember the cleanliness on the streets and in the restaurants, in the huge port area. I knew then, now I’m confused by looking on the maps, on Google Maps, where I invite you to have a peak as well, because is a real experience. I remember a huge market at the entrance, there were small terraces where one may eat whatever one dreams of, from crocodile meat dishes, to shark and stuffed dog, with mouse aroma and different worm types, stuffed rat and rat soup, with the all traditional fried rice with shrimps or shellfish.
Gate of Kaohsiung Harbour (wikipedia)
I haven’t tasted (I really hope, and if I did, it tasted good) anything not knowing, I wanted to avoid to eat rat, even if I’ve seen that it can’t be bad, and a time may come when the rat will survive and in matter of meaty dishes it will be the best choice, anyway. I had some shellfish with fried rice with soy, bamboo sprouts and the ever present shrimp “tails”. I have to confess that I like fried rice in a lot of other combinations, and it is one of my favorite dishes of all time, lately an all vegetarian thing, I’m eating with or without bamboo sprouts, with or without soy, dark or light, everything is replaceable. After my Indian events, I’m enjoying a curry aroma also, with the rice or with any kind of pastas.
Dream Mall, Kaohsiung
Dream Mall is one of the most magnificent malls I’ve ever seen. They weren’t many in the world anyway, but this one was and is still huge. I’ll return to this city anytime, and I’m sure I’ll not pass a visit to my friend, Pater Giaccomo from Reggio Emilia, who managed well indeed there, in Kaohsiung, at the Catholic Mission. He also had a bar of whom he wasn’t very proud to admit he possessed, but that was the truth. Money don’t smell.
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Cool post about a cool city! Check out the new beer garden in central park next time you’re in town, Daniel 🙂
Of course I’ll check out, :). Till next time, then, Graham, 🙂