
Thus begins the second conversation with Chris. In this first section we mainly discuss food and some of Chris’ experiences in Shirakawa-Shi, while going on tangents about Taiwanese biandang (便當) and places like Jiufen (九份) with its famous book shop that has Chinese and English books (to which I think this is the right link).
Also, I must apologise for the heavy thunking noises as we lifted and set our mugs of (what started out as) tea on the table that held the microphone. That and the few noises of the neighbour… scraping boxes across the floor in the room adjoining our wall? I think he was busy packing up to move – nothing to do with us, of course.


