T100 quest

The List

100 Great places in Taiwan (with emphasis on Taichung)

1. Nova - of course
2. Blockbusters - many of movies rented there
3. The Japanese grocery store (OomaWu - spelling?, now called “Capi-tan”)
4. Starbucks at Taichung Central
5. Tiger City courtyard (oh yeah!)
6. TGI’s off Wenshin
7. Carefour (The one with the escalators going down into it) - the local grocery shoppage
8. Little Italy
9. Baseball batting spot
10. Golf Driving range
11. McD’s near church
12. 7-11 (Near our first digs Rob)
13. Mitsukoshi
14. WenHsin & JongGang intersection with the Big TV screen
15. Shoe Street Nike store
16. Famous Fried Rice stand on chang ping rd.
17. Morrison touch field
18. Internet Cafe (Chainsaw)where OrrieVisser dominated the number of deaths toll and Robbocop dominated the kills, reaching 100+  many a time;)
19. Pizza Hut (more specifically the one on chang Ping Rd.)
20. Scooter Parking lot @ FengJia
21. Coffeshop in the mountains near the waterfall. (bat cave region)
22. Patch of green grass at the Grobbler’s possie 
23. Exercise time courtyard at Kinndy
24. Swimming pool with the blue and orange waterslides, 7 Jukuzis and the cold pool outside the saunas that would make your nads disappear
25. Lazy Boy style chairs at Gold Class Movies
26. Metropolitan Park
27. The gazebo style thing in our old apartment’s Japanese style courtyard
28. Lavender cottage
29. Go karts track near Dong Hai
30.The grass area in the Natural Science Museum’s Park
31. The Squash court at Craig and Jo’s old place
32. The Win shin and Chung Deh Rd intersection with the Pachinko place 
33.Uncle Jimmy’s (which doesn’t exist anymore)
34.Art street in Dong Hai
35.Ten pin bowling spot
36. Skillet Fries at Chillies
37. The 6 minute route from DaKeng Rd to Hess, Meitsun.
38. Swat (Still got my VIP card!)
39. The night market with the Mongolian stir fry.
40. Hot springs at green Island
41. The baseball stadium (remember New Year’s 2005?)
42. The earthquake museum (not the one in Taichung)
43. First Hotel, Taipei.
44. 50 Tea - any one of them…
45. Church - all 3 floors :)
46. The basement of Rob’s old apartment.
47. The balcony of Craig’s old apartment
48. The balcony of Dave’s old 3 floor house.
49. The fish & pet shop near church (Nice Rog)
50. The comfort of the Lazy-boy massage chairs on the bus ride from Taichung to Taipei
51. Smokey Joes at Kending
52. The ”Knobbs” at Sun-Moon Lake
53. The massage chairs at the Hotel at Sun-moon Lake.
54. The Mushroom village on the way to Lavender Cottage
55. The cushion seats of a super fast Duke 125cc (or Dick 125cc Feel tha Speeb)
55. Taichung central.
56. The Subway near Craig and Roger’s Hess school.
57. The swimming pool at Craig’s old apartment where he cracked his head open. (P.S. - It was my chin you 傻瓜!)
58. The roof of Rob’s old apartment where we played guitars and Rob Sharted once.
59. The skate park that you saw everyday and said “I must go there one day!” but no-one ever went to, even when Rob got roller-blades.
60. TGI’s near NOVA
61. The Londoner

62. F.M. restaurant63. Ralph’s place (The Cashew Nut chicken place behind our first place Robbo)64. Movies foyer at Tiger City65. Video Games below Tiger City66. 101 (of course)
67. The Mosquito infested shops that sold crappy toys inside the Folk Park.
68. Chicken Roll stand outside TLI.
69 People’s park opposite Nova
70. 24hr store on Chung Deh Rd, (where Rob furnished two apartments at 4am)
71. The Car Pound where we picked our vehicles a number of times after being towed.
72. the hospital room where Roger Spaded 30 nurses a day, with some “Serious skin infection” Nice!
73. the surf Shop at Fong Jia Night market.
74. Toys R Us on Wen Shin Rd.
75. Kebabish Indian restaurant.
76. “Tea Works” where we would take “new comers” to Taiwan
77. The park with the long grass near our old place where we would try throw Frisbees.
78. TLC. enough said.
79. The restaurant in the middle of the  rice paddy fields between TLC and Morrison.
80. Finga’s
81. Ranch chicken takeaways at Chung Yo dept store and the floor space we all sat at one Sunday afternoon.
82. Smooths restaurant where we had every farewell and birthday.
83. SAHARA and it’s Borittos. How did it take so long to get on the list!??
94. The wen Shin Park, where we had out reaches and played cricket.
95. The Massive Taichung “steak house” opposite Yumayu (Capi’tan) that we never went to.
96. Holiday KTV (needs a mention)
97. The Motor License Dept on Beitsun where we spent many hours registering, paying fines, doing license tests etc..
98. The Turkish ice cream guy at Fong Jia
99. World Gym.
100.!!! The big tree in the middle of the road as you get to Da-Keng.

101… furniture on the side of the road where ever it may be

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