Taiwan Sweet Bananas in Coconut Milk & Sauce
A sweet fruit served with bowls of rice. You eat the banana chunks and sip the milk. This is served by roadside vendors and push carts. Adapted for use in U.S. This is two recipes in one. In medium stockpot add bananas, coconut milk, ginger, five ... [... more]
International Vegetarian Union |
Mahonia japonica
A handsome species from China and Taiwan, although plants are now only found in cultivation, this is one of the most popular winter-flowering evergreen shrubs. It makes a bold, colourful highlight when its remarkable leaves, up to 40cm (16in) ... [... more]
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Willem Van Kemenade
Willem van Kemenade was born in the Netherlands in 1943. He studied history at Nijmegen University and Chinese in Taiwan and at Leiden University. Since 1977 he has been a freelance journalist and correspondent in Beijing, Jakarta, Hong Kong, and ... [... more]
Random House |
Mark Crilley
Mark Crilley was raised in Detroit, Michigan. After graduating from Kalamazoo College, he traveled to Taiwan and Japan, where he taught English for nearly five years. It was during his stay in Japan that he created Akiko. In 1998, Mark Crilley ... [... more]
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Barry C. Lynn
In September 1999, an earthquake devastated much of Taiwan, toppling buildings, knocking out electricity, and killing 2,500 people. Within days, factories as far away as California and Texas began to close. Cut off from their supplies of ... [... more]
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Stuart Olson
Now 101 years old, Master T. T. Liang came to the U.S. from Taiwan in the 1960s to introduce t'ai chi to America. His life story is full of the stuff that makes a great martial arts adventure: a career as a high-ranking government official, ... [... more]
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Belle Yang
Mei-Mei and Di-Di are head-over-heels in love with their new doves. Like devoted parents, the siblings tenderly... It's a long way from Taiwan to San Francisco, but Hannah's family has made the journey because they want to make America their ... [... more]
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Taiwan Pickles
I have posted a nice vegan menu for Lunar New Year (2/16) on my recipe page. Place sliced cucumbers in serving bowl and sprinkle with salt to taste. Mix dressing ingredients in a small bowl and pour over cucumber slices. Below is one recipe, the ... [... more]
International Vegetarian Union |
Cunninghamia lanceolata
Cunninghamia is native to the forests of China and Taiwan. In the UK it makes a superb specimen tree for a large garden where its evergreen, rounded, domed canopy and attractive, red-brown fibrous trunk provides interest throughout the year. Find ... [... more]
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Lilium longiflorum
Originating in Taiwan, this is a gorgeous lily. In mid-summer, it has handsome, shiny, deep green leaves and bears umbels of up to six, glorious, strongly and deliciously perfumed, pure white, horizontally held trumpets, up to 18cm (7in) long, ... [... more]
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Terrence Cheng
Terrence Cheng's grandmother was a senator in the Chinese Nationalist Party, and his grandfather was a prisoner-of-war captured by the Japanese during World War II. Both survived and moved their family to Taiwan after the Communists came to power ... [... more]
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