Smoke, Silver, and the Bottom Line Twice a month, Taiwan’s high-tech corridors and neon-lit storefronts pause for an ancient ritual of spiritual capitalism. If you find yourself walking through the commercial heart of Taipei on certain afternoons, the glass-and-steel landscape undergoes a sudden, atmospheric shift. Outside luxury boutiques, family-run noodle stalls, and sleek banking…
The Dragon Boat Festival (端午節) is one of Taiwan’s most important traditional holidays, celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It typically falls in late May or June and is observed with an official three-day public holiday. The festival is famous for its vibrant dragon boat races, sticky rice dumplings, and summer-warding folk traditions. [1, 2, 3, 4]…