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Yeah, I have to admit, after more than two months on the way, I’m getting bored about daily vlogs talking about where I’m going today and what I am eating. So these two days I carry my dear tripod all around Taipei city and made some amateur timelapse clips.

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Yeah, I have to admit, after more than two months on the way, I’m getting bored about daily vlogs talking aboyt where I’m going today and what I am eating. So today these two days I carry my dearr tripod all around Taipei city and made some amateur timelapse clips. 


Timelapse TAIPEI

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In warm places like SE Asia, I always fail to do as much sighseeing as in European cities due to the heat. 

Lately it's been over 30 degrees Celsius in Taipei city, luckily I came across this interesting exhibition in the contemporary art museum MOCA Taipei, great to spent an afternoon.

Here are some pictures taken at the exhibition, you can see more details from the [vlog](https://d.tube/#!/v/joythewanderer/6d0d4wsf) I made earlier! If you happen to be in Taipei city, do check it out, worth going!

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cute statue near the museum

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As an ecobag addict, I bought an ecobag as my Taiwan souvenir.

That cute doll is our lovely [@deanliu](https://steemit.com/@deanliu).

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WHERE HAVE THE FLOWERS GONE was good, slightly too emotional for me though. I like another exhibition more: Living Sound.

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Quite a few interesting installations. Didn't find people to go to clubs in Taipei, at least here you can enjoy some cool music with different settings, listening to electronic music in front of temple setting wzs kinda fun!

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前天去台北当代艺术馆看了个展。我是个非常不耐热的人，在热的地方观光对我来说是一件困难的事，所以在比如曼谷这样的热带城市，我整天汗流浃背，几乎什么景点都不去了。台北这两天超过30度，已经差不多是我的极限，所以本打算去某个景点看看，结果中途放弃，路过当代艺术馆进去看看。

没想到最近的两个展都挺有意思，分别是查无此人和Living Sound，查无此人是很多台湾流行音乐人共同策划的项目，比如五月天的玛莎，魏如萱都参与其中，我很久不听华语流行，这个展不错，但是对我来说有点太情绪化，我更喜欢另一个展。

很多装置很有意思，甚至把寺庙都用进去了，我在里面玩了很久，如果有兴趣的可以看我的[Vlog](https://d.tube/#!/v/joythewanderer/6d0d4wsf)！

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查無此人 @MOCA Taipei

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This vlog is about two great installation exhibitions currently taking place in MOCA Taipei. 

Went there by accident but found both quite interesting. FLOWERS is a Taiwan pop music inspired project organised by many famous Taiwan singers and musicians, and Living Sound create a cool and quirky way to interact with all kinds of music, I love all the installations of Living Sound.

If you are in Taipei by July, check it out. Ticket only costs 50 Taiwan dollar.

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This vlog is about two great installation exhibitions currently taking place in MOCA Taipei. 

Went there by accident but found both quite interesting. FLOWERS is a Taiwan pop music inspired project organised by many famous Taiwan singers and musicians, and Living Sound create a cool and quirky way to interact with all kinds of music, I love all the installations of Living Sound. 

If you are in Taipei by July, check it out. Ticket only costs 50 Taiwan dollar (1.5 ish euro). 

WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE x Living Sound | MOCA Taipei

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I stay near Dihua Rd in Taipei, not until yesterday Taiwan Steemians told me this area is full of nice shops and has become quite trendy recently, did I realise I should explore the street, since I stay so close by!

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This cute café attracts me.

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Love its decorations!

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Great for photo taking I guess.

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_wooo_

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Nothing better than a morning coffee in a vintage style café

It's past 3. 30am in the morning and I'm on the overnight coach from Taipei going back home. It's been a long day today which actually started yesterday. 
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Caught the 0830 coach to Taipei yesterday to meet up with some fellow Steemians. First up was @ettydiallova. I'm really glad that she could time off work to meet up with me. 
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@joythewanderer is visiting Taiwan so of course we had to get some Steemians together for a meetup. @deanliu, @joythewanderer and I meet up for pre dinner coffee. Photo credit @joythewanderer. 
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Then @stoodkev, @catwomanteresa and @lydiachan joined us for dinner. After dinner @stoodkev invited us back to his place for this die for view of Taipei 101 from his rooftop. This is undoubtedly the best rooftop bar view in Taipei. 
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Next meetup SF4 in Bangkok.  Be there or be square. 
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旅遊達人@joythewanderer 到台灣，一定要歡迎她。神秘的@deanliu 美女，久別的@lydiachan ，台灣見證人@stoodkev 和@catwomanteresa 大家都一起出來晚餐。之後@stoodkev 邀請我們到他家天台欣賞夜景繼續聊天。不經不覺又到兩點。




Meetup at 2am

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[@deanliu](https://steemit.com/@deanliu) [@stoodkev](https://steemit.com/@stoodkev) [@lydiachan](https://steemit.com/@lydiachan) [@catwomanteresa](https://steemit.com/@catwomanteresa) [@livinguktaiwan](https://steemit.com/@livinguktaiwan)!

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Taipei meetup!

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Hello Steemians, I’m @vandeberg, Senior Blockchain Developer at Steemit and today I want to do a more technical deep dive in to the rewards system of Steem and shed some light on the nuances of changing a reward curve. We recently proposed changing the reward curve to a "convergent linear rewards curve" as part of the effort to improve the economics of Steem. What does that mean?

To read more about how the Steemit team believes the economics of Steem can be improved, [check out this post on @steemitblog](https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/improving-the-economics-of-steem-a-community-proposal).

<h1>ELI5</h1>

When Steem was first created, rewards were distributed based on a “superlinear” rewards curve. That meant that accounts with a lot of Steem Power had more innate influence on a per-Steem-basis than smaller accounts. That curve was very effective at encouraging people to consolidate their Steem into one account, which made it easy for other users to find and respond to bad actors. But a side effect of this curve was that the “rich got richer” at a rate which made the ecosystem feel extremely unfair. 

Switching to a linear rewards curve meant that every account had the same degree of influence (on a per-Steem-basis) on the rewards pool regardless of the total amount of Steem they had in their accounts. At the time most felt that this dramatically improved the fairness of the ecosystem, and since that change was put into place, we have seen a reduction in the income inequality in Steem. One problem with this change was that it reduced the incentive to consolidate one’s stake in a single account, which made it easier for bad actors to divide up their stake and hide their activities.

<h1>Reward Mechanics</h1>

To gain a deeper understanding of how these different curves function, let’s look at a few hypothetical scenarios and see how they play out based on how much stake the users have, and the type of curve that is in place. 


When a comment is 7 days old, it is rewarded based on the number of reward shares (or rshares) it has, modified by some function called a rewards curve. Steem currently has a linear rewards curve, which means the rshares are modified by the curve `f(x) = mx + b`. Specifically Steem uses the curve `f(x) = x` where the rshares are not changed at all. This is compared to a moving total of rshares recently paid out. Let's work through a simple example.

Let's say that Alice authored a post that received 10 rshares. The pool of recent rshares contains 1000 rshares, and the reward fund holds 100.000 STEEM. The reward curve is applied to Alice's 10 rshares, giving us 10 rshares and those are added to the total recent rshares, giving us 1010 rshares. Then Alice is rewarded with 10/1010 of the reward fund, or 9.900 STEEM. The actual values on the blockchain are much different than this, but the math is the same. In addition, the recent rshares are decayed slightly each block. Over time it reaches a pseudo-equilibrium which normalizes rewards over time.

With the same constraints, what if Bob had a comment rewarded at the same time, but he only had 5 rshares. Both of their rshares would be added to the total recent rshares for a value of 1015. Alice would be rewarded with 10/1015 of the reward fund for 9.985 STEEM and Bob would be rewarded with 5/1015 of the reward fund for 4.926 STEEM. As you can see, Alice's comment had twice as many rshares voting for it and she received twice as much STEEM as Bob. We might also call this a proportional rewards curve because the rewards are proportional to the number of rshares voting for a piece of content.

<h1>The Different Curves</h1>

When Steem was first launched we had an `n^3` reward curve, which was changed to `n^2` before the first payouts began on July 4th, 2016. Let's run the example again but with a rewards curve of `n^2`. To make the values somewhat close, we also need to increase the size of the recent rshares to 5000. We have to add an extra step in the calculation that was implicit before, the application of the rewards curve. Alice's comment has 10 rshares, but when we apply that to `f(n) = n^2` we get an actual value of 100. Doing the same to Bob's comment gives us a value of 25, for a new total recent rshares of 5125.

Now, Alice is rewarded with 100/5125 of the reward pool, or 19.512 STEEM, whereas Bob is rewarded 25/5125 of the reward pool, or 4.878 STEEM, four times less than Alice! We call this a superlinear reward curve. Certainly this is not fair. Steemit and the witnesses agree, which is why we changed the rewards curve to linear on June 20, 2017 in Hardfork 19.


<h1>Superlinearity</h1>

However, there is a really nice property of a super linear reward curve. It encourages consolidating stake in order to maximize rewards. In the Steem Whitepaper we refer to this as "anti-sybil". The scenario that it seeks to combat is a single entity spreading their stake over many small accounts in order to hide their actions in noise. A single entity doing this can hide their intentions and siphon off small rewards over time and be difficult to detect. Superlinear rewards incentivizes consolidating stake or at least having the smaller accounts act together, which makes the behavior much more difficult to hide if the entity wants to act in an optimal manner.

<h1>Best of Both Worlds?</h1>

Is there a way for us to capture the fairness of linear rewards and keep the anti-sybil benefits of superlinearity? We believe so with what we have termed the convergent linear rewards curve. This curve is of the form `n^2 / (n + 1)`.

Let's look at the example above again, but add in Charlie who has a comment with 20 rshares. We will go back to a recent rshare value of 1000. We will also be using the specific reward curve of `n^2 / (n/5 + 1)` for this example.

Alice has 10 rshares which are augmented by the rewards curve to be 33 rshares.
Bob has 5 rshares which are augmented by the rewards curve to be 12 rshares.
Charlie has 20 rshares which are augmented by the rewards curve to be 80 rshares.

The payouts then for Alice would be 29.333 STEEM. Bob would be 10.666 STEEM. Charlie would be 71.111 STEEM.

Looking at Alice and Bob, Alice only has twice as many rshares as Bob, but was rewarded with 2.75 times as much STEEM, an increase of 37.5% STEEM per rshare.

However, while Charle also has twice as many rshares as Alice, he was only rewarded with 2.42 times as much STEEM, an increase of 21% STEEM per rshare.

That is the beauty of this curve! As more rshares are awarded to comments, the marginal gain (percent STEEM per rshare) decreases. However, the actual STEEM reward per rshare still increases. If it did not, we would see Charlie rewarded with less than 2 times as much STEEM as Alice, resulting in a negative percent STEEM per rshare.

We have decided to call this a convergent linear rewards curve, because as the number of rshares increases, this curve converges on linearity and behaves more and more like a linear rewards curve. The specific curve it behaves like can be derived by calculating the limit at infinity. In the case of this curve, it behaves like the curve `f(n) = 10n`. We can tune how quickly the curve converges to the equivalent linear rewards curve by changing the coefficient of the denominator term.

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We can graph the derivatives of the reward curves to visualize their "fairness" over time. The red line is `n^2`, the blue line is `n`, green is `n^2 / (n + 1)`, and pink is `n log( n )`. The pink line was added as another point of comparison because it is a common function that grows faster than `n` but slower than `n^2` and is a reasonable candidate for a superlinear curve. This graph confirms what our intuition is regarding these curves from the previous examples. `n^2` continues to get more and more unfair as rshares increase and `n` is fair regardless of rshares. The green curve for `n^2/(n+1)` is cool because you can see it start unfair with `n^2` and end fair with `n`. `n log(n)` continues to grow forever. While it is not as unfair as `n^2` it does continue to grow in unbounded unfairness, while `n^2 / (n+1)` does not.

The goal of this post was to deep dive into one of the critical pieces of the [Economic Improvement Proposal](https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/improving-the-economics-of-steem-a-community-proposal). Let me know if you have any questions in the comments section below, or what part of the proposal I should “deep dive” into next. 

Vandeberg

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Reward Curve Deep Dive

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Night market is a must-do when visiting Taiwan. Locals told me to go there early to avoid crowd, that's why the photo isn't in the dark yet.

Arriving at aroubd 5:30, I saw many snack stalls were still preparing their food. Still, quite a few were already open.

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For example this popular black pepper bun stall was already ready.

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People were already queuing for their black peoper bun.

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After queuing for 5 min, I got mine.

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Not bad, reminds me of the bun I ate in Xinjiang and Kyrgyzstan, with stronger pepper flavor.

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Black pepper bun at Raohe St. Night Market in Taipei

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Greetings from Taipei to Barcelona! Do you know now it’s the time for [@dtube.forum](https://steemit.com/@dtube.forum)? Too bad I’m still travelling in Asia, but I’ll try to make it to SF4 to meet all fellow dtubers! It’s gonna be in BKK! Not sure where I’ll be within 5 months but maybe I’ll go!

Anyway anyway this vlog is about my visit to the famous Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei!

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Greetings from Taipei to Barcelona! Do you know now it’s the time for @dtube.forum? Too bad I’m still travelling in Asia, but I’ll try to make it to SF4 to meet all fellow dtubers! It’s gonna be in BKK! Not sure where I’ll be within 5 months but maybe I’ll go!

Anyway anyway this vlog is about my visit to the famous Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei! 

Visit Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei

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Hello Taipei

I'm not a person who would do airport hotel unlessI have really early flight in cities, such as Seoul, where taxis are expensive.

Had an early flight from Incheon Airport that day, so decided to get a few hour sleep, which turned out to be a good decision, because Incheon Airport seems pretty cold to overnight at airport bench/ground or whatever.

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Entrance, which could have made a bit more obvious actually, took a while to find the reception lol.

I started my trip with a small bag and end up with an extra suitcase because Asia is too good for shopping ^^

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Capsules

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Common space

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Bathroom is shared, you find get a room with provate one as well, but shared option is cheaper ^^ there weren't many people staying there anyway, so I didn't have to wait for bathroom etc.

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Capsule hotel at Incheon Airport

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This vlog is about my trip to Chishingtan and the highlands to the North of Hualien city.

In Taiwan you need an international driving lisence to rent a normal motorbike, apparently very different to Vietnam, as there nobody even asked any lisence lol. I guess it’s more right in Taiwan in this case. Luckily in places like Hualien or Kenting you can always find electtonic scooter rental, so no worries.

Chishingtan and the surrounding was so beautiful! I’m happy to finally have some sunny days in Taiwan!

Stay tuned for more of my travel updates ^^

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This vlog is about my trip to Chishingtan and the highlands to the North of Hualien city. In taiwan you need an international driving lisence to rent a normal scooter, apparently very different to Vietnam, as there nobody even asked any lisence lol. Luckily in places like Hualien or Kenting you can always find electtonic scooter rental, so no worries. 

Chishingtan and the surrounding was so beautiful! I’m happy to finally have some sunny days in Taiwan!

Stay tuned for more of my travel updates ^^

Electronic scooter trip to beautiful Hualien | Chishingtan + Four-night highlands

Electronic scooter trip to beautiful Hualien | Chishingtan + Four-eight highlands

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If you follow my blog, you must have known that I love travelling by train.

In Taiwan they have regular trains around the island. I guess it's pretty easy to figure it out, because if all the trains go around the island, then there are basically only two kinds of trains right? Or maybe also some other ones that stop in smaller towns but anyway, travelling in Taiwan by train is easy and comfortable.

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vintage vibes

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tour around island

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inside the train

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Random views from the train

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Train around Taiwan

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Hello, greetings from Taiwan! I’m currently doing a tour around Taiwan island. Went to Taitung for Chiben hot spring town. Taitung is actually a nice place to stop over as well. 

Stay tuned for more of my Asia trip update!

Have a good day/night. 

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Hello, greetings from Taiwan! I’m currently doing a tour around Taiwan island. Went to Taitung for Chiben hot spring town. Taitung is actually a nice place to stop over as well. 

Stay tuned for more of my Asia trip update!

Have a good day/night. 

Explore the amazing Taitung city! 

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In Taiwan you find shaved ice shops everywhere. For someone with lactoce intolerance, this is perfect dessert for a warm day.

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You can add all kinds of toppings, red bean, green bean (I know for some people, dessert with beans sound weird but I love it), fruit, taro ball, pudding, etc.

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Fruit pudding shaved ice

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Mango ice cream topping

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Ice dessert in Taiwan

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Visited this famous ice cream shop the other day. It was an eye clinic owned by a Japanese doctor Miyahara back in time. The building is well maintained, you can feel the vintage 1940s vibes everywhere.

Now the building functions as souvenir shops selling traditional Taiwanese and Japanese cookies. But it is more famous for its ice cream shop, I also tasted their ice cream of course.

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Visited this famous ice cream shop the other day. It was an eye clinic owned by a Japanese doctor Miyahara back in time. The building is well maintained, you can feel the vintage 1940s vibes everywhere. 

Now the building functions as souvenir shops selling traditional Taiwanese and Japanese cookies. But it is more famous for its ice cream shop, I also tasted their ice cream of course. 

Most famous ice cream shop in Taichung | Miyahara 宮原眼科

I'm sharing some pictures taken in Tainan.

So far all the cities I've seen in Taiwan appear to be quite chill, not much going on. There are quite a few motorbikes on the street but traffic is no where near Vietnam level.

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Appartments on the way to the beach

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Anping beach, not much infrastructure near the beach except for some street vendors, which is a good thing.

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Tainan

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Chiben is one of the hot spring villages in Taiwan. I guess because of its Japanese influence, you find onsen hotels in major Taiwan cities too.

Chiben is a beautiful village among the mountains, next to Chiben river. The area is rich in natural hot springs and its hot springs have been used by native villagers for hundreds of years.

I also discovered the difference between Taiwan hot spring and Japan hot springs: here you have to wear swimming suits and cap to go in the public hot spring bath.

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Chiben is one of the hot spring villages in Taiwan. I guess because of its Japanese influence, you find onsen hotels in major Taiwan cities too. Chiben is a beautiful village among the mountains, next to Chiben river. The area is rich in natural hot springs and its hot springs have been used by native villagers for hundreds of years. I also discovered the difference between Taiwan hot spring and Japan hot springs: here you have to wear swimming suits and cap to go in the public hot spring bath. 

Explore Chiben Hot Spring Village in Taiwan

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Normal is boring

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I imagined Taiwan to be one of those sub-tropical islands with endless sun and humid breeze. But right now it's still the short rain season, what I see are endless clouds.

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Beach in Taitung reminds me of the beach in Île de Ré or in Karakol, or any beach that is not so developed in tourism, meaning not many beach bars, etc, which is a good thing I believe.

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Cloudy East Coast |TAIWAN | 東海岸多雲☁️

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Taiwan is famous for its night food market culture. I’ve been to a few food market in SE Asia, now I’m curious about the ones in Taiwan as I heard a lot of good things about it!

In this video I’ve tried a lot of snacks and discover a lot of interesting things there. 

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Taiwan is famous for its night food market culture. I’ve been to a few food market in SE Asia, now I’m curious about the ones in Taiwan as I heard a lot of good things about it!

In this video I’ve tried a lot of snacks and discover a lot of interesting things there. 

My First Night Food Market Experience in Taiwan

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...recommended me this original pearl milk tea shop. [He has written about it as well](https://steemit.com/food/@deanliu/--1549603188169). Can you believe all bubble tea started in this milk tea shop?

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Huge bubble statue

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How the shop looks like inside.

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Menu, it's quite extensive, not only all kinds of milk teas, also some traditional taiwanese dishes.

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My bubble tea!

I also made a vlog about this shop, stay tuned ^^

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刘美女推荐我去了这家春水堂珍奶发源地。你相信全世界所有的珍珠奶茶都发源自此吗？

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Deanliu...

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This vlog is about my first impressions of Tainan city, cozy, comfortable, not in a hurry. That’s my first impressions of Taiwan, especially after a few Asian Metropolitans, the city is pretty chill and laid back. Gonna explore it a bit more in the next few days.

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This vlog is about my first impressions of Tainan city, cozy, comfortable, not in a hurry. That’s my first impressions of Taiwan, especially after a few Asian Metropolitans, the city is pretty chill and laid back. Gonna explore it a bit more in the next few days. 