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Featured Travel Stories in Oriental Tales Magazine

Taiwan: Taipei to Hualian
- Story by John Phillips
- 10th Online Issue

Have you heard the one about the blinged-up gangster, the guy who wears baggy jeans that hang closer to his ankles than his waist, who has gold medallions that would make Mr. T’s neck ache, and who goes shopping with his mother? Unfortunately it’s not a gag. Our hero lives in Hualian, a small town on Taiwan’s difficult-to-reach east coast, so perhaps it’s forgivable that some of the rules of street cred get lost or re-interpreted.

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