A Culinary History of Taipei (Beyond Pork and Ponlai) Supplemental Youtube

YOUTUBE HERE. 
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCng_Lf6NbY9K1KRDE18s4eg)

These 12- part videos are direct transfer from photos and notes originally posted on Facebook - a total of 392 photos and 6 videos. 

They are fun supplement to our book published in October 2018. And we hope to have them shared to a wider audience outside Facebook.

First entry May 2018 and last Nov 2020. 



Part I  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfZLg2g31Ac
Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG-xdZWiVQs&t=237s
Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfiN6iCf-LE&t=17s
Part 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DWdRmxXZzM&t=68s

Music - Taiwanese Melodies



Part 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ojmczDVSE&t=33s
Part 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKTQbozUHYs
Part 7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DL3vnJHFVg&t=40s
Part 8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svIM6R9kkRA&t=37s
Part 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS9XMvnU2hA&t=4s
Part 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3IBJvNcwWI

Vidoes 



Part 11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfF-SG7xYHE&t=2s
Part 12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSckt6emvTk

Photos and notes from trips abroad including Yunnan, Palau, the Philippines, Malaysia.

Music - Taiwanese indigenous and Hakka songs, indigenous children's choir.












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