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About Joshua Samuel Brown
The author of two editions of Lonely Planet: Taiwan, as well as several other books and numerous articles about travel in Taiwan, Joshua Samuel Brown has lived in Taiwan off and on for many years. From his current residence in Portland, Oregon, he has been watching Taiwan’s skillful handling of COVID-19 with great interest.
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Plan Now to Revive Tourism to Taiwan

Joshua Samuel Brown/2020-09-162020-10-05 /Leave a comment

Taiwan’s tourism sector needs to start planning now for how it will deal with the post-COVID-19 environment. My older brother Seth, despite repeated invitations, has yet to make it to Taiwan and has never expressed more than occasional fraternal interest in the country and culture that’s been the cornerstone of his younger brother’s life. But…

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Taiwan Business

Requiem for the Living Mall

Joshua Samuel Brown/2020-04-212020-04-20 /2 Comments

Core Pacific City was an architectural oddity, tucked into an unfashionable part of Taipei. Still, the shopping center – now being razed – always had its admirers. The year of the rat is off to a rough start, throwing so much news of earth-shaking proportions at the public that less-significant stories get lost amid a…

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Travel & Culture

The ABCs of Taichung

Joshua Samuel Brown/2019-07-232019-07-30 /Leave a comment

The major city in central Taiwan has much to recommend it as a stopover for local and foreign tourists, including its architecture, museums, and – surprisingly – greenery.    My first impression of Taipei City was that it was an unlivable, chaotic burg clogged with scooters, people, and exhaust fumes. That this notion was formed during…

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Travel & Culture

Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen, Taiwan

Joshua Samuel Brown/2019-07-162019-07-10 /Leave a comment

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A Westerner goes to see a psychiatrist at Tzu Chi Hospital. In reasonably fluent Mandarin, he says:“Doc, you’ve got to help me. Taiwan has become too vivid for me, too noisy. I swear I’m hearing trumpets and firecrackers even when there’s no festival at the temple next to…

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Wine & Dine

Pursuing the Offbeat Dining Experience

Joshua Samuel Brown/2019-01-162019-01-25 /Leave a comment

Once in a while, try something out of the ordinary, or even downright bizarre. Taiwan has so many excellent restaurants – at all levels of the price scale – that it’s really hard for a diner to go wrong. But where to go when you tire of the conventional choices and you’re in the mood…

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Wine & Dine

Suffering for Taiwan’s Sublime Cuisine

Joshua Samuel Brown/2019-01-092019-01-09 /2 Comments

What it’s like to dine out with celebrities on delectable, rich Michelin-starred food – gout be damned. Publication last year of the first Taipei Michelin Guide launched Taipei into the rarefied ranks of cities like San Francisco, New York, and Shanghai that can boast their own Michelin guides. Of the total of 20 restaurants in…

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Travel & Culture

Goodbye to Grandfather Shi

Joshua Samuel Brown/2018-07-172018-07-12 /Leave a comment

Two writers’ perspective on a Sun Moon Lake holiday marked by a peculiar mingling of love and death.   By Joshua Samuel Brown The sound of gongs and chanting were already pronounced as we turned the corner and approached our hotel at the alley’s end. Though we’d come to Sun Moon Lake for its legendary peace…

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Taiwan Business

Vicky Lin’s Artisanal Chocolate Finds Taiwan’s Sweet Spot

Joshua Samuel Brown/2018-04-232018-04-19 /Leave a comment

Cacai Cacao, Vicky Lin’s bean-to-bar chocolate company is a home business in every sense. The inspiration for the business came during a 2015 visit to her husband Mark’s family home in the Philippines, a trip that gave her the chance to see several cacao farms that make their own chocolate for turning into finished chocolate…

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Wine & Dine

The Four Stages of Life (as experienced through Taiwanese cuisine)

Joshua Samuel Brown/2018-01-222018-01-17 /Leave a comment

Childhood: Consequence-Free Dining at the Night Market Will was on assignment in Taiwan, one of a group of bloggers, YouTubers, and other influencers invited by the Tourism Bureau to produce millennial-friendly content promoting Taiwan on the internet. It was his first day in town, so I figured the night market was a good place to…

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Travel & Culture

A Trio of Offbeat Hotels

Joshua Samuel Brown/2017-07-112017-07-07 /Leave a comment

If three solid months traveling around the island researching a new memoir/ travel book while introducing Taiwan to my partner Stephanie has taught me anything, it’s this: Taiwan marches to its own beat. From a massive spherical shopping mall to a humble countryside church that happens to resemble a gigantic glass slipper, the Taiwanese have a…

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