hi everybody welcome to the ICRT Vlog this is for the first week of September
We're trying something new where we kind of give you a quick overview of some of
the most interesting stories that happen over the week they're not necessarily
Newsy stories that there are things that you know you might be interested in
It might have to do with entertainment with lifestyle more like casual story so
have a look and see what you think today we're starting off with a more of a newsy
story a lot of students in taipei city elementary school students are going to
be receiving a personal safety alarm device what that means is they get a
little a little egg-shaped device and then they wear it on their person around
their neck or like velcro strapped onto their backpacks and then they can
pull it and it makes this really loud sound in case you know there's an
emergency where they get attacked it's a little bit crazy that elementary school
students need this kind of thing but child safety has been a major issue in
Taiwan we know of a lot of attacks on children or attempted attacks and so
this is something that's necessary this little egg thing I've watched the video
for like how to use it if you pull the strap it makes an alarm sound that is
120 decibels loud and that is like 10 above the average human threshold for
pain so it's just loud enough to be painful so hopefully that'll keep some
children safe okay moving on to happier news there is actually a coffee shop a
cafe in Taitung that's getting a lot of attention it's in Lu Ye township and
it's actually run by a prison or the inmates of a prison and i know that that
sounds a little bit that sounds a little bit unusual but this prison cafe has
actually been getting a lot of attention and people are really enjoying the
coffee there so they establish this cafe in 1976 and basically the inmates learn
how to grow the coffee and how to you know roast the beans and then how to
actually make and press the coffee and a lot of people have said that the coffee
is really good you would think like it's a really dark and depressing place
possibly just because that's how you usually think of prisons but actually
I've looked at pictures and it's a european-style building so
european-style building all white walls and it's
surrounded by grassy fields if you want to try something different you could
head down to Taitung or you know a casual tour and have some coffee oh and they
also serve pineapple cakes and they serve other desserts as well
speaking of food there's this new trend going on I don't know if you've heard of
it but there's a shop in Taipei and they're
selling like popular breakfast shop items like them egg pancake and radish cake
but they're doing something different with the turnip cakes and the
scallion pancakes with egg. Turnip cake is their most famous dish and they
basically take the turnip cake and they you know pan fry it like usual but
they'll mash it up and they'll like squish it and then they'll break an egg
over it and then they'll put cheese on it and they call this "蘿蔔糕混蛋"
which is like a mean thing to say in Chinese but it's really really
popular and they sell like 50 or 60 every day and then the other thing that
they do is they take a scallion pancake and then they 皮蛋
thousand-year-old egg into it so instead of using like a regular egg they'll use
thousand-year-old egg and then they also add cheese so that's something you might
want to try as well okay and then this last news story that I saw that I
thought was really funny online this woman she buys something online she buys
a phone case and she spends nine hundred and fifty NT and then a week later
she gets the package and she opens the pop buy the package and it is a bottle
of Viagra she posted this online and she posted her line conversation with the
the the seller of the product and you know they had it all
person who was selling said there was no problem and then it became viagra so a
lot of people online who responded to her they said you know you got a really
good deal because the case cost nine hundred and fifty NT but a regular
authorized bottle of Viagra for 30 pills a bottle it costs four thousand six
hundred and eighty NT so there you go anyway so those are the stories for this
week write in and let us know if you miss something interesting or if you
want to hear something else