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Five More Things. Blogs, Blogs, Blogs, Storage Matters, & The Comfortable Mafia
Five things I like & dislike. Taiwan Tea Odyssey Taiwan Tea Odyssey is the most interesting new blog that’s started in a long while and one that works well in conversation with long running blogs like Marshaln. Started in 2023, it details Alex’s excursions in the Taiwanese tea scene as well as his personal exploration…
Taiwan stores(Ruten or Yahoo) are a much safer alternative. I’ve had great experience buying some very expensive cakes there.
>obvious drawbacks (poorer archive/search, dumb drama) search is okay but you gotta be ok typing out multiple variants and sometimes…
Are there discords or other groups where people review/discuss Taobao shops? I’ve done some Taobao shopping over the years, but…
I cut my teeth on what was available at the time that I started (2010-2016), mostly boutique. Bosch was the…












The discords seem to be dominated by a small number of members. Mainly they are constantly posting random “in joke”…