Monday, November 9, 2009

Plants

Saying: "Plants grow well in Tainan" is like saying "Chinese is a hard language to learn". Just the bloody obvious. If plants ever die in Tainan, it's because someone forgot to water them. The sun is good, the temperature hot, soil is no problem and carbon dioxide abundant. On the way to school, these peonies? are outside the Department of Chinese Literature.


















Here are orchids selling for 100NT($3US) the same as we could buy at Trader Joe's for $15US.


















Here are the same 100NT orchids being sold out the back of a truck.


















Here is a place that serves winter melon tea and this winter melon is at least 3 feet long. The marketing strategy must be that bigger is better.


















These monstrous zuchinis reminded me of some the zuchinis my Dad use to grow.
As big as they are I don't think they have much nutrional value and I know they don't have much taste. Just a filler.






2 comments:

Paula said...

You are fortunate to have so many beautiful flowers around. I would enjoy seeing so many orchids. It must be tempting to buy some. You don't have enough room for plants in your dorm room, though.

Pinfan said...

You should plant some flowers or plants...Taiwan is actually making lots of flowers and export to oversea. Orchiad is one of them, and make very good money..