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Rajen,
It also pays to know the customs and culinary
delights of a place.
One afternoon as I was sitting at my table doing
some last minute preparations for class I hear a "hiss" near my feet.
thinking that it was the neighbour's cat, I thought nothing more of it till the
second "hiss" which was a bit nearer. On looking down I was a Taiwan-cobra
at my feet. Well, I must have put the Nath clan to shame because I
promptly propped myself up on the table and jumped out the window and ran for
help to a neighbour.
To cut a somewhat long story short, we killed the
snake which had coiled itself into a corner of my book-shelf and I went to work
as usual, but very much shaken. When I returned home in the evening, my
friend came over and invited me out for dinner which I readily
accepted. He told me that we were going to eat at a very posh restaurant
and Iwas a little taken aback as we normally reserved such treats for rare
occasions only.
On the way to our rendezvous, we stopped at the
local Night-Market (a Taiwanese pheonomenon) and my friend produced a bag from
his car and went into a "speciality" eatery and returned with NT$2,500 (US$100);
he had sold the cobra of the afternoon scare and we enjoyed the promised meal at
the 5-star restaurant.
Yes, snakes are a delicacy here and so are dogs --
both are supposed to boost a man's libido. I, however, have not
ventured into tasting either yet.
Anjan
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