台南作为台湾的文化古都，美食底蕴深厚，而且物价比台北便宜多了，吃起来一点不用担心荷包。不过当地口味偏甜，大家可根据自己喜好选择。以下是我亲历的一些台南美食，文章末尾附有互动地图，可以点击或放大查看。
台中楊大腸蚵仔蝦仁麵線：5星白菜
70元新台币就能吃到满满一碗虾仁、小卷、大肠、蚵仔的面线，一把香菜撒上去更添风味。鲜美的味道自不用表，价格还这么实惠。有钱人可以选择加干贝、帆立贝、天使红虾甚至大龙虾。
地址:開元路總店- 開元路64-8號，另有其他分店。
天使红虾面线也有很多人点。甚至可以点龙虾或帆立贝、干贝面线。
就餐环境简陋，一位难求，门口还有好多人排队呢
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台湾人常常把厕所称为洗手间，但厕所通常都会被标注为“化妆室”。“化妆室”是日本人对厕所的一种最文雅的称谓，所以台湾人也有样学样，这样标称，不过口头上较少使用这一称呼，除非是美女要去厕所化妆。
欧洲旅行最大的困惑就是公共厕所难找，而且都要收费。可是在台湾没有这个问题，因为公共厕所到处都是的，而且全部免费。公共厕所可以在商场、捷运站、公园、寺庙、公家机构（例如图书馆、派出所）甚至部分便利店找到。
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今年的多倫多台灣文化節同樣是為期三天．可惜我雜務纏身，只有週六能抽出半天時間參與．
首次現身多倫多的電音三太子是今年文化節的一大亮點．台灣民間的三太子就是托塔李天王的三子哪吒．電音三太子將原來是鄉間和廟會用來降妖除魔的神聖儀式，結合了現代舞蹈及音樂元素，一躍成為萬眾矚目的焦點，全家大小都可以一同參加的娛樂活動。
台灣美食一向是台灣文化節的重頭戲，今年也不例外．
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Marc Edwards takes you to Taipei City to see the National Palace Museum, Shilin Night Market, Longshan Temple, Taipei 101, Danshui and a lot more fun places that Taipei offers.
Zhi Nan Temple is a Taoist temple on the slopes of Houshan (Monkey Mountain) in Muzha, a suburb of Taipei, Taiwan. It was founded in 1882. The temple’s main deity is Lv Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals.
Popular folklore holds that unmarried couples who visit the temple together will break up. One explanation is that Lv Dongbin, famous for his Taoist sexual prowess, can be counted upon to seduce any unmarried woman (older versions specify that she must be a virgin). Another is that since Lv Dongbin’s love for Immortal Woman He was unanswered, he is jealous of lovers.
Zhi Nan Temple is famous for its stairway of “1000” steps. (This is to the Yuanzhen Pond and the Tudigong shrine; the gate of the Chunyang Chapel requires a further 300 steps.)
I only walked down the 1300 steps after my visit to the temple because I took a bus route No. 530 all the way up to Zhi Nan Temple parking lot.
After I got off the bus, there’s still some steps to walk. On the way to the temple, I felt hungry and got some smelly tofu at this open-air food stall in a pavilion.
The oldest part of the temple is the Chunyang Chapel, constructed in 1890. Funding came from gold miners working in Jinshan. This shrine houses a statue of Lv Dongbin, founder of the Chunyang sect of Quanzhen (“Complete Perfection”) Taoism. The present statue was a 2002 gift from Zhi Nan’s “home temple,” Yongle Temple in Shanxi province.
Facing the Chunyang Chapel, to the left is the Lingxiao Chapel (built 1963-1966). The main deities are the Jade Emperor (on the top floor) and the Three Pure Ones (on the ground floor). Below these may be found the classrooms and offices of the China Taoism Institute, a Quanzhen seminary granting 2-year BA and MA degrees in Taoism.
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