Aquaponics: Get It In Your Garden
By Trista di Genova The Wild East We know it works. Aquaponics is booming in Australia at present because of the water shortage. By contrast, farm-raised fish are raping the sea environment… A home aquaponic system.Aquaculture started about 30 years ago, created by aquarists and their fish aquariums. They were dealing with plants in their aquarium for [...]

Dear MeiGui: My Taiwanese girlfriend is bankrupting me
Dear MeiGui; My girlfriend continuously insists on me buying her presents. We work at the same company in HsinChu and started dating last January. Since then, she has found every excuse in the book to demand I buy her gifts. She has expected that I give [...]

When Love is in the Air… in China
Statue at China's new sex-themed parkThe remnants of a typhoon piddled on Qingdao last night, whetting the thirsts of the flowers, trees and citizens, tantalizingly dewy but nowhere near wet enough to slake the dry. So as the sere winds blow in off the Bao Hai Sea, the collective consciousness begins to fret and [...]

One Taiwanese Would Kiss All of Paris
by Dan Bloom Special to The Wild East See photos here: A kiss just a kiss. Or is it? A Taiwanese woman named Ya-ching Yang has become famous around the world for a blog she has set up about going after 100 kisses from willing men in Paris. Based on a whim she had three years ago, and [...]

On a Lighter Note: Top 10 Pickup Spots in Taipei
Carnageries, so-famous as the top pickup joint. Barley, a Kiwi, just moved from Hualien to Taipei, and asked me where he could find a girlfriend? What kind of girl, I asked. He said a ‘down-to-earth, nice girl.” So here is my Top 10 list of pickup joints around town where Barley and other single foreign guys [...]