and I'm back from my little mission to China and Japan! Hope everything is going well!

Hey Rybit! Hope you had a good time, and good luck getting the sleep cycle turned around :P

...now /twitch), where's our anime!?!?

Warm regards,
Nydia

Here's me with my Taiwanese haircut, Diesel t-shirt, and tight jeans (after shopping and carefully observing the metrosexuality of Hong Kong and Taiwanese citizens) in Bruce "Mei" Lee form while visiting the parental units in Los Angeles ...

http://forums.ayonae.ro/~jason/brucemeilee.jpg

And here I thought the title wasn't going to fit the thread.

Oh, come on, you got to love Nanjing boys and Tokyo ricers! You want some Taiwanese in you?!

Welcome back!

Your fist isn't well positionned.

+1 Nydia, I WANT FMA!!!! Rah. Please.

:D

LOL
Welcome back, the first thing you should do is cut your hair!
:D

Welcome back sweetie, you were missed. /hugs

Welcome back Rybit. You're sort of missing the shirtless aspect of Bruce Lee there... :p

Welcome back.

Welcome back Ryb! Looks like you had an... uhmm... interesting time on your trip :p

Oh yeah, and bring on the FMA ^^

Welcome back!

And ditto what Fil said.

Here's me with my Taiwanese haircut, Diesel t-shirt, and tight jeans (after shopping and carefully observing the metrosexuality of Hong Kong and Taiwanese citizens) in Bruce "Mei" Lee form while visiting the parental units in Los Angeles ...
They can't be truly metrosexual if they're wearing t-shirts instead of stripped shirts with popped collars.

Just be glad it didn't come to that. We might have had to put you down, to save you the misery.

How much longer until you leave again?

Welcome back. That's quite some haircut. Hope you didn't bring the aroma of the "aromatic tofu" back from Taiwan. :D

Oh, jeez. I hate 臭豆腐 (Choudoufu).

Rybit who?

Oh, jeez. I hate 臭豆腐 (Choudoufu).

I'm not sure what "choad-fu" is, but...I hate it, too.

http://www.makansutra.com/Makanzine/Nov99/smelly_tofu.html

Smelly Tofu (臭 = chou, smelly; 豆腐 = doufu, tofu)

The Lowdown:

This is one dish for the lion hearted. It may be a bit of a problem if you have big nostrils. If blue cheese and bitter durian don't get you, this may.

Eat it while holding your breath and it's a crispy and hot piece of fried tofu. Eat it with your eyes closed and its like eating crispy fried tofu at the back of a rubbish truck.

Well, this chow taufu (fried fermented bean curd) is as stinky as it comes. The fermentation technique is horrendous - they have been known to ferment the tofu with fish, fowl or poultry innards under sealed lids, for days and weeks. When they open and retrieve this science project afterwards, the whole neighbourhood knows or rather, nose it. Which was why this stall had to relocate from their previous place at the Chinatown Food Centre. The neighbouring stalls cannot tahan (stand) the smell and complained. His stall was vandalised by some who truly cannot tahan.

People eat that stuff?

Did you look up any of the TW folks that play EQ? I played on The Nameless for a few years and got to know quite a few. Some good, some bad, just like all the servers and all the races.

I found the Taiwanese to be interesting. They were playing a game that had no support for their language lo~. They did a fairly good job of creating their own.

Anyway, welcome back!