Hi guys! Welcome on my channel. My name is Charlotte
I am from Belgium and today I want to give you a small list of 3 things that I personally miss about Taiwan.
When I talk with other foreigners who have lived (or stayed for a long time) in Taiwan,
The things we miss are similar. Obviously, we miss the food and the friendly people.
To make this video a bit more surprising, I want to give you more specific things,
small little things that I personally miss about Taiwan, things you probably have not heard yet from foreigners.
Let us start with number 3 on my list.
When you are in Taipei, you have a very convenient MRT system
One of those lines is the brown line, the Neihu line
That one (if I understood it correctly) is the oldest subway line in the whole of Taipei.
It had no driver. I think it is the smallest one and maybe the slowest one
I used to take this line to go home and there was something I really loved about this subway line:
The part where it passes through the airport. “Songshan airport” I think it is called.
There is one part where the MRT comes out of the dark tunnel of the airport and then you see the airplanes right next to you in the airport.
Sometimes, if you are lucky, you can see an airplane taking off or landing
I do not know why, but when I am in Belgium and I take a bus or subway,
sometimes I’m still reminded about the brown Neihu line in Taipei and it is really something I miss.
Now the second thing on my list:
This is a little bit related to food. But not really…
As you guys know, I am a very big fan of “bubble milk tea” or “pearl milk tea”, or whatever you want to call it.
In Taiwan, there are so many brands but something specific that I liked was in the “50 lan”, you have the very small sized pearls.
There are normal sized and super tiny pearls.
Since I have tried those kinds of pearls, I became totally addicted and always looking for those ones.
That is so sad, because here in Belgium, in the very rare cases that I can find “pearl milk tea”,
I think I will never find the very small ones, my favourite ones.
Now, pearl milk tea will never be the same again for me. I am always looking for that specific kind.
That is another weird and random thing I miss about Taiwan.
Number 1 on my list might sound so trivial and normal to you, so please don’t be disappointed.
This is personally something I really miss. And that is:
Louisa Coffee. And just the whole coffee shop culture in general.
I cannot find anything like Louisa Coffee in Belgium. Especially for that price and quality.
My favourite drink there was the brown sugar milk tea.
Sometimes, when I wanted to spoil myself, I had some cake on the side.
When I went to Different Louisa’s in different places, they had different kind of cakes,
so it was always exciting to find out what a new Louisa would have.
What I also really liked about the Louisa Coffee in my neighbourhood is that it closed very late compared to other places
Sometimes even until 9pm (or 11pm!). Whenever other people are probably having fun in the city and partying and going out on a Friday night,
at 9pm I was still chilling in Louisa Coffee and I just loved it so much.
That is something that I terribly miss, because in Belgium, we do not have this concept of having many coffee shops
It is not the same. Usually, when you go to a coffee shop, they do not want you to stay there for a long time.
Because they want to have more clients. You should just have your drink, you can stay a little bit, but then you have to leave.
I felt like in the Louisa Coffees in Taiwan, when it is not a very small shop and there is enough space,
You can sit there for 3 hours to study and nobody will say anything to you.
That is something I really liked and that I miss a lot.
These were 3 unexpected things that I personally miss about Taiwan.
I bet you could not any of those in advance, because they are just so random and personal for me.
If you are interested to hear more of these, I have many more little things that I miss about Taiwan
If you want me to, I will make a “part 2” in the future.
I am also very curious to know about you!
Whenever you go out of Taiwan, or if you are a foreigner, when you go back to your home country,
what do you miss about Taiwan that is not obvious like food and people?
Let me know in the comments down below. Thank you so much for watching!
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Suitcase
I’m probably thinking about this because I want to travel again.
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