Eating Niu rou mein in Taipei
Visiting the mothership for the first time in nearly twenty years felt more emotional towards the end than in the beginning. At the start, there was just the concern about the typhoon that was about to blast the east coast of Taiwan in mid-July. The thing about Taiwan is that they get typhoons all the time and it's no big deal to them. The typhoon was set to arrive a few hours after our plane touched down, and actually the government told schools and businesses to go home early at 3pm that Friday. We had some dinner while the wind speeds were picking up, and throughout the night the island got battered with typhoon Soulik. In the morning, my uncle took Steph and me to eat some niu rou mein, or beef noodle soup. Most things weren't even open that Saturday morning, because people were mostly...
