You know you have been in Taiwan if....

You know you have been in Taiwan if:

• you know what a pineapple cake is and most likely love it
• you have ever seen the trash being picked up by a car playing "For Elise"
• you have tried to eat things and you had no idea what they were but you liked them
• you have been in a city and 15 minutes later in the most beautiful mountain scenery
• you have tasted fruit/fruit juice and felt like you were in heaven
• you have been asked for a picture by random strangers (locals)
• you have smiled at random strangers just because they looked foreign
• you have said xie xie more than a 1000 times
• you think there is no way to ever survive without a 7Eleven again
• you have taken a picture/video of the traffic light running guy
• you have tried shaved ice
• you have paid 1000$ for sth. and were happy it was soooo cheap ;) (example a backpack
• you have had dessert with undefined contents that were mostly glibber and probably made of beans
• you know what a Night market is and love them
• you have been on the tallest (already finished) building in the World (middle of 2009 still true I think)
• you secretely had a chewing gum while sitting in the MRT and enjoyed the feeling of doing sth. forbidden
• you (GIRLS ONLY) started to like lace/ribbons and own clothing that has lace or ribbons (preferably more than one item)
• you have had soup/ any food out of a hello kitty bowl/box
• you know how to eat with chopsticks (extreme case: you don't know how to use fork&knife anymore
• you have thought you were ordering this ("I know this chinese character") and got sth. completely different /even more fun when trying to pronounce a chinese word!
• you think taifuns are normal
• you have experienced an earthquake
• you have tried snake meat/ chicken feet/ pig blood cake/ stinky tofu or other things you can definitely not get in Western countries
• you think it is nice to COOL DOWN a room to 26 degrees celcius
• you have gotten sunburned but refused to use WHITENING sunblock!
• you have met several people that told you you were extremly beautiful (especially your eye/hair) simply because you look different
• you have been in a lot more than one temple
• you have thought that "WEEEIIIIIIIII" (micky mouse voice) is a very annoying word (most applicable for interns with taiwanese colleagues)
• you think ready cut fruit is perfectly normal and should be really cheap and also fresh
• you have tried dumplings in every variation possible
• you went to K-TV
• you really know sth is wrong when u did that, too, but it can happen: you carried an umbrella over you in bright sunshine to protect yourself from the sun
• you select restaurants by whether they have airconditioning or not
• you have seen and most likely killed a coachroach (and it wasn't small)
• you get used to guys carrying their own purses (plus their girlfriends purse, no matter if it is pink!)
• you have seen people wearing Hello Kitty masks and have smiled about the MRT "please wear surgical masks announcement"
• you learned to simply smile at people when you don't understand them (even if they "talk English")
• you have tried Papaya milk
• you have been in a country that is not a country but yet it is a country