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...mildest environmentalist. Foreigners mostly stay in the many small hotels and guesthouses in the old town, such as the clean and quiet Banna Guesthouse, where an air-conditioned double costs $18 per night; call (86-691) 212-3559 to book. Jinghong also boasts a number of small cafEs. The Mei Mei CafE in the town center offers the staple backpacker breakfast of banana pancakes as well as other good, cheap Western and Chinese food. Staff can also organize a variety of outings. Across the street, the Forest CafE has a similar menu and a good selection of books (in English...
They were big, mean-looking thugs, the corners of their down-turned mouths frothing with betel-nut juice. And the message they delivered to Huang Mei-shu that day last August was almost too horrible to contemplate. "We have your sister," they said. "She stinks. Pay $5,000 if you want her back in one piece." Huang's first instinct was to avoid trouble and fork over the cash. But times were tough for the Taipei slum-dweller, and the most she could rustle up was $500?a sum the kidnappers gruffly rejected. Scared and desperate, she went...
...Thanks in part to the public outcry that followed Huang's struggle, government officials have been fighting to clean up Taiwan's funeral business. Regulations that Chen Jeaw-mei, Taipei's director of social affairs, plans to pass on soon to the city council for approval include, for example, forcing funeral company operators to publish their prices ahead of time and to submit to regular evaluations. Some hospitals in major cities now require morticians to enter lotteries to determine which of them are given access to family members of critically ill patients...
...understand. The news of the heart's surprises, for example. I should tell her about my brother, her granduncle, who last month upped and got married for the first time to a schoolteacher from Beijing. He spent an entire life alone, and then appears the thoroughly lovely Chao Mei, and presto change-o, a heart beats. I should tell Jessica about that...
...Magazine's 1998 Christmas shopping guide. It is also listed in this year's "New York Magazine Shops - A Guide to the Best Stores in New York." With one of the very few shops in the city where hats are actually made on the premises, Barbara and apprentice designer Mei Lan Low hand-block and hand-craft hats from start to finish using techniques and equipment scarcely changed since the 19th century. Says Feinman, "Some of the wood blocks we use are probably 100 years old, and the sewing machine we sew hats on, called a setup machine...