Today, we wen't to a Taiwanese barbeque. Right now we're in the mid-autumn. So this day was actually called mid-autumn festival. However, and this is very important, this is not the real mid-autumn festival. The real mid-autumn festival is on the 3rd of October, but this is kind-of a barbeque before of that. I think this work in a way similar to the danish culture of holding christmas lunches, as I have been invited to more of these already.
This is the sight that greeted us after ~3 hours of travel, (of which the latter hours were in a karaoke bus again,) since appareantly, taiwanese don't mind using their whole day for driving around in a bus as I have already learned.
I can just tell you now already: This was of course the most freaky barbeque I've been to in my life. It sounded more like a danish football game, just the way people grilled was... funny.
It's insane how quickly it turns from day to night over here. When we arrived it was just about to start becoming darker, and as we walked down 500-700 meter through a cow farm, down a steep way past a scouts camp and stuffs. I guess it took 5 or 10min because people stopped up to see things and use the "happy" restroom there, and as we finally got to the barbeque setup, it was already as dark as on the pictures you see. As we went to sit down - which took not more than a minute or two, it was already as dark as in the night.
Madness.
The fruits you see to the left are ... they're really good. A bit like orange, but not as sour. I have to eat a lot of these right now, because it's their season now, and I won't be able to eat them anymore during the rest of my stay when the season ends, as it will only begin again when I already went back to Denmark in a year.
Here you see several examples of Taiwanese hot dogs: Sausages on a stick. It's actually the only kind of sausage you can really get here. I have yet to see a place where they serve sausages without a stick in them. Some of them even comes in their package with the stick put in already.
Also, these guys are very impatient and in general not really experienced with barbeque'ing like most danes, as they only barbeque a few times every year.
So what happened was people started putting stuff on the grill right after the coals were lit up, obviously resulting in a lot of burned meat and generally not very good grilled stuff. xD
The fire is too strong, so of course you can just put some water on it. Because that's going to help a lot with putting out the embers and make the fire send out sparks and ash upon the food.
But burned food is not really a problem, because people are having a lot of fun, and after all, there's so much food so you can't eat half of it anyway, so even if most of it gets burned, you can still satiate your hunger easily.
People were singing and dancing on the scene all night, generating a lot of noice, especially everytime whoever got the supporter horn decided it was time to get some attention.
I met the brazilian guy here again, but I'm socially retarded when it comes to brazilians, so I didn't ever see the chance to move close enough to him to be able to have a conversation above shouting and making handsigns. (Hey, exchangestudents are constantly busy talking to taiwanese people, so not my fault, I gave him my namecard at least.)
Very yummy meat. Taiwanese people like pork a lot and can make so many things of it that you can't imagine half of it.
Also yum. (As the cup to the right confirms.) This is the inside of the orange-like fruit I mentioned before.
But this fruit is not just yum, it is also very usefull. After eating the meat inside, the people took the thick peels and put them onto the grill, because when you heat them, they will give off a scent that will chase away the mosqitoes. I really like this fruit.
More dancing. On my yootoobz is another movie if you want more. It's not really great footage though.
Finally, when the barbeque was over, we went back to the bus that by that time looked like this.
Crazy.
Hope you enjoy your lives. I enjoy mine.
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