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welcome to taipe we are bringing you
guys along today to one of my favorite
pastimes and a Taiwanese classic this is
shrimp fishing or Urban
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Fishing and this has become very popular
especially with young people here in
Taiwan so I'm just setting my bait and
this is not as easy as everyone here
makes it look
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so I really don't know what I'm doing
but I just put the bait on and some
local came over and kind of told me what
to do so I'm going to try my luck but I
don't think I'm going to do very
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well so one thing you need when you're
shrimp fishing is a big bottle of beer
and make sure you're hungry because
hopefully we're going to be catching
some shrimp so I guess now you play the
waiting game just watch the bber and
wait for the shrimp to come to the bait
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all right folks there it is first shrimp
of the night she's uh probably 10 15
pounder um going to feed the family
tonight should mention that this is
totally indoors and we're fishing out of
a pool and it doesn't look very clean
but hopefully the shrimp will tastes
good and I think this is a fairly new um
activity here in Taiwan and it's pretty
interesting to say the least and
definitely something to pass the time
because it's a lot of waiting so the way
that this works is you pay by the hour
and it doesn't matter how many shrimp
you catch they give you the bait and the
rod and then you're on your own so I can
see the appeal in this but for me this
doesn't look like it's going to pay off
at $30 an hour and no shrimp so far
doesn't look like I'm going to get my
money's worth but certainly some people
are
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we've been here for almost 2 hours now
it's 10:00 at night but this is a
24-hour establishment and so far we've
only caught about two or three and every
once in a while he'll come and restock
the pool but it doesn't seem like many
people are catching too many so I think
we're doing okay
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so that was surprisingly adrenaline
inducing like my heart is pumping and
we're just in this tiny little coou
fishing shrimp but I'm prettyy excited
so see if we can catch a couple more and
then we're going to head over to cook
them
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up okay so we caught all our shrimp I
think we caught maybe six or seven and
now it's time to clean them up before
putting them into the fryer
not more than I
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thought okay we've salted them up
skewered them up and now they're going
in the
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fryer we finished fishing and we've
cooked up our shrimp and I surprised
myself caught nine different shrimp and
these look pretty good what a
mess okay we're finished here at ch ch
if you want to see the uh finished here
tonight at the shrimping place we caught
nine shrimp in total and it was a lot of
fun and I think we got our money's worth
this place is called chan chan if you
want to see the directions to here uh
check the link below for our blog post
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