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Staying Awake & Sugar High

January 12, 2009 Posted by Chris

One thing about living in America is that you quickly learn how necessary coffee can be to get started in the morning and to keep going throughout the day. The only other backup we have from coffee is sugar and sugar doesn't keep you awake for long (Energy drinks are a good mix of both but I'll save that for another time). So after having about a dozen of the different coffee-in-a-bottle available in Taiwan I've finally found the most potent one. As for sugar, I just rely on ice cream or snickers. One thing about Taiwan is that here you can find Snickers, Kit-Kat, Skittles or any type of Candy available in the US.

If you're ever in Taiwan and you need to wake up this stuff will do the trick. The Chinese name of the Coffee is "咖啡油切" which has not good translation into English other than "The oil cuts the coffee." It's just a name anyway and names rarely mean anything. It's a bitter kind of Coffee that is darker than anything else around these parts, but it gets me awake in class...that's all that matters.


These little ice cream bars are nothing really special at all. "曠世奇派" and "黑炫風". The name is the same as what they are. I mostly posted this one just to show you how some things are at least similar here, among the vast majority of differences. Everyone around the world seems to like chocolate and vanilla ice cream!