早安，你今天 Q 了嗎？
一起來認識台灣美食的獨特口感

🇹🇼 In Italy, ‘Al Dente’ Is Prized. In Taiwan, It’s All About Food That’s ‘Q.’
台灣美食為什麼那麼「Q」？

🍭 NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan — As dusk falls at Lehua Night Market, the fluorescent lights flicker on and the hungry customers start trickling in, anxious for a taste of the local delicacies that give this island its reputation as one of Asia’s finest culinary capitals. Neatly arranged pyramids of plump fish balls. Bowls brimming with tapioca balls bathed in lightly sweetened syrup. Sizzling oyster omelets, hot off the griddle. Deep-fried sweet potato puffs, still dripping with oil.
台灣新北市——隨著夜幕降臨樂華夜市，燈光亮起，飢腸轆轆的客人們三三兩兩來到這裡，急於品嚐讓這個島嶼享有亞洲最佳美食之城的當地美食。整齊排成小山的飽滿魚丸。一碗碗涼圓，淋著略帶甜味的糖漿。剛從鐵板上下來，滋滋作響的蚵仔煎。還滴著熱油的炸地瓜球。

-fluorescent: 發出螢光的
-trickle in: 三三兩兩地抵達
-reputation: 名聲
-culinary: 烹飪的
-griddle: 鐵板、煎鍋
-deep-fried: 油炸的

🍡 Take a bite of any of these dishes and you’ll discover a unique texture. But how exactly do you describe that perfectly calibrated “mouth feel” so sought after by local cooks and eaters alike?
Slippery? Chewy? Globby? Not exactly the most flattering adjectives in the culinary world.
Luckily, the Taiwanese have a word for this texture. Well, actually, it’s not a word, it’s a letter — one that even non-Chinese speakers can pronounce.
It’s “Q.”

隨便嘗一口這些小吃，你都會發現它們別具風味。但你該如何形容那種經過精心調配，令當地廚師和食客們趨之若鶩的「口感」呢？
滑溜？有嚼勁？黏稠？這些可算不上是美食界最好聽的形容。
幸運的是，台灣人有一個詞來形容這種口感。其實，這稱不上是個詞語，而是一個字母——就連不講中文的人也能說出它。
那就是「Q」。

-texture: 口感、質地、韻味
-calibrate: 校準、調整、調配
-be sought after: 趨之若鶩
-chewy: 有嚼勁的

🥤 “It’s difficult to explain what Q means exactly,” said Liu Yen-ling, a manager at Chun Shui Tang, a popular teahouse chain that claims to have invented tapioca milk tea in Taiwan. “Basically it means springy, soft, elastic.”
Q texture is to Taiwanese what umami is to Japanese and al dente is to Italians — that is, cherished and essential. Around Taiwan, the letter Q can often be glimpsed amid a jumble of Chinese characters on shop signs and food packages and in convenience stores and advertisements.

「很難解釋Q到底是什麼意思，」人氣連鎖茶飲品牌、號稱台灣珍珠奶茶發明者的春水堂的經理劉葉玲說。「基本上，它是彈牙、軟糯的意思。」
「Q」的口感之於台灣人，就等於「umami」（鮮）之於日本人，「al dente」（有嚼勁）之於義大利人——備受珍視，也必不可少。在台灣各地，可以在店鋪招牌和便利店、廣告的食物包裝中的一堆中文字裡瞥見「Q」這個字母。

-tapioca milk tea: 珍珠奶茶
-springy: 有彈性的、彈牙的
-umami: 鮮味
-al dente: 彈牙、有嚼勁
-glimpse: 瞥見

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今天是二二八事件 74 週年，二二八事件對臺灣來說，是不可磨滅的傷痕，而我們在這道深深傷痕的血肉之中，掙扎重生。
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身在海外的臺灣人，也仍然心繫這片土地，要讓全世界看到，近代臺灣人曾經如何奮力爭取民主與自由。 法國台灣協會 Association Formose en France 、德國台灣協會 Taiwanverein in Deutschland e.V. 與二二八事件紀念基金會主辦了一系列的二二八紀念活動，《沃草》有幸擔任協辦，在線上影展、線上演奏之外，與主辦單位一同呈現線上策展，以英文介面呈現二二八事件前後的歷史現場，讓國際友人有能夠身歷其境，理解二二八事件起末，並體會1947年的臺灣人心境，從戰爭結束的喜悅、到希望報效國家的滿腔熱血逐漸因為國民黨政府的腐敗而灰心絕望，繼而感到憤怒，最終迎來悲劇。
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在這個哀戚的日子，請大家和阿草一起，緬懷當年逝去的臺灣人。
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《二二八日記》你不知道你失去了什麼
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關於 ABOUT：
Raw01 is the ultimate 1st version of Vince Way's original song, recorded exactly the moment it was born. A demo is a final version in its own way - perfectly raw as it should be. May whatever blossoms from it later on, its essence remains only in version Raw01.

Raw01是弘正原創歌曲的終極第一版，準確記錄了它誕生的一刻。這些DEMO以後會不斷的進化，但此版本依然是完的最初。

Up Running
詞 Lyrics: 弘正 Vince Way


I've been up and alone
Feel like I don't belong
In a world has gone so wrong
Yet it’s the only place I know

Keep me safe in the zone
Been told to keep on fighting
Till we see a silver lining
In between the closing door

And I ve been dreaming
Pleading your love
Will you ever come

I've been blinded too blind to notice
Our moment has begun

You got me
Up up running up and running again
You woke me up up honey up from all the lost dreams
I ve been afraid what’s coming
So afraid I lost it
Wake up now honey
Up into a new scene

To the new scene
A world we’ve never seen yea

Now get up all the way
We've never made mistakes
Just chances that we take to see
if anyone relate

Aren’t we one and the same?
Hop on a flight tomorrow
Pack up the guilt and sorrow
That we’re barely holding on

And now I'm dreaming
Pleading your love
Could you be the one

To get me
Up up running up and running again
To wake me up up honey up from all the lost dreams
I was afraid what's coming
So afraid I lost it
Wake up now honey
Up into the scene
To the new scene
To the new scene Yea
To a new scene
A world that we've never seen

Been blinded Too blind to notice
Our moment just begun

Now get up all the way

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Raw01
Raw01 is the ultimate 1st version of Vince Way's original song, recorded exactly the moment it was born. A demo is a final version in its own way - perfectly raw as it should be. May whatever blossoms from it later on, its essence remains only in version Raw01.

Raw01是弘正原創歌曲的終極第一版，準確記錄了它誕生的一刻。這些DEMO以後會不斷的進化，但此版本依然是完的最初。

詞 Lyrics:
Shoot Aim Fire
knocking down your desire
Lock and reload
what do we know
Kill in style
lipstick in red
Heels high
Trophies of gold
could it be all
Pushing for power with all of our means
Still seeing these faces as lost as they seem
When buildings are crumbling down what do you really see
The fight goes on so

Fold up the heartache
March as we go
Long as you know its
Worth fighting for
When Home is a matchstick
Love is the stove
With all that is worth it
I'm fighting for
I'm fighting for you

2 steps back
Elbows up on defence
Watch the attack
There's pride to protect

Punching in punching out chasing the dream
Still up in those nights I can barely breathe
Fighting the good fight is that all there really is
The gloves stay on so

Fold up the heartache
March as we go
As long as you know its
Worth fighting for
Keep fighting for
When Home is a matchstick
Love is the stove
With all that is worth it
I'm fighting for
fighting for
you ohh fighting for you ohh

Embrace all the heartbreaks
Laugh as we go
We ll land on the surface of evernew

Let home be the match stick
Love be the stove
With all that is worth it keep fighting for
I'm fighting for you

Lyrics by Vince Way

2013年8月31日是我第一次來到台灣。 剛好已經七年了！ 對不起，我說錯了！ 我過了超棒的7年！！ 我不知道怎麼說我好幸福，即使在那個時候我也不確定自己會做什麼，來台灣是我一生中最好的點子之一。

我決定拍一個有關台灣的影片，這次我不介紹風景或食物。會有點不同。

因為我來這裡已經7年了，所以我決定分享我在台灣學習的7件事。我認為每個人也應該學習。

影片是英文的，但是有中文字幕，這樣說中文和英文的人都可以認識台灣！ 請大家看到最後，也回答最後的問題。 非常感謝！

On August 31 in 2013 it was the first time I arrived to Taiwan. It's been exactly seven years! Sorry, I said it wrong! It's been 7 great years!! I cannot express how happy I am and even though at that time I wasn't really sure what I was going to do, coming to Taiwan was one of the best ideas in my life.

Because of that I decided to make a short video about Taiwan. This time it's not about places, it's not about vistas, neither about food. It's a bit different.

Since I have been here 7 years, I decided to share 7 things that I learnt in Taiwan.. and I think everybody in the world should learn as well.

The video is in English with Chinese subtitles. This way people who either Chinese and English can understand well! So please watch it to the end and make sure you answer the question at the end. Thanks a lot!

0:00 Intro 簡介
0:18 Safety 安全
1:30 Customers Service 客戶服務
2:14 Public Health System 全民健保
2:57 Healthy Lifestyle 健康生活
3:38 Public Toilets 公共厠所
4:15 Business Friendly 商業友善
6:40 Last but not least 最後但同樣重要的

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