hello and welcome to the world of some culture coming up on the show today d.w. present a meghan lee will be here to tell us about her column in re journey through taipei . i'm celebrating european wedding traditions this time on the italian island of sicily. now d.w. has a new multimedia series called tasty taipei which has just started on the euro max you tube channel and on social media presenter meghan li went to taiwan a mess out with chinese editor. who took on a commonly journey from street food markets to high class restaurants bag and will join me in a minute but 1st let's have a taste of featuring stinky spicy tofu. i'm

travelled extensively through europe africa and of course united states but i've never been to taiwan and i hear that time is a foodie's paradise in supermarkets cited they get a taste. of the way they are thinking. you tell your friends. ok i'll give you away. to your. credit. i think you told let's give it a try the 1st think utopia. first but i don't think you. know you. don't think really good really you like a good idea it's a really good. one i. found i think mild.

now and not too it's not hunting like that you can tell if it's been fermenting. right now we have a new trial it's cooking that there is to put the tofu inside spicy soup and it is the must try all right spicy all right thanks not only spicy about thank you at the gym. i think all you like yeah. i'm getting whipped by these still right now 1st of all how it might be is this medium spicy what moves have me how do you try it to know what you're going to be a bit. in my face ok. oh. my goodness that's really cutting. that really is burning my.

little bit in the cold with. i'm trying to. think you know. if. it's true oh my. lord. i'm glad you're close they want to. to bombard fire i told. you for introducing you know my friend by my 1st. think you fight. oh my goodness. but. she's here with me. now megan 1st of all why tell i want taiwan is a very special project from our director general peter lim borg went there for the

opening of taipei office the by the year ago and and those over you saw there took him out to one of the best taiwanese restaurants didn't. i phone and apparently there he fell in love with taiwanese cuisine and the idea was born and he from there he said let's do something on time when he's cuisine and that's how it happened because when these cuisine very different to chinese it is which i found out cuisine well 1st of all it's chinese cuisine as we know it is nothing like the cuisine that they would serve in china which is also nothing really like the cuisine to serve in taiwan but. because taiwan. and china have a special relationship that there's a definite influence on the on the cuisine taiwanese cuisine but i will say taiwanese cuisine is about fusion it's very very healthy very fresh it's not greasy i associate chinese food with being very greasy. no no no no not at all it's very

clean and that's what i liked about it because i didn't gain any weight. just to be tofu steak yes. 6 this is no joke it was it's tough that's a challenge because obviously if you smell something like a like i said it was like a farm you know i mean it's like going to walk into a farm where there's stinky pigs and things you're not going to eat and it really smelt it was you really noticed this for it was fermented something it just reeked and i thought there's no way i can eat here and they brought it out and i thought there's no i'm eating that and to taste it though it was really really mild it wasn't it was different from the way that it smelled so but still it was a challenge to have that smell all around you and then eat and enjoy it but but my reaction in the crew really like that too because the taiwanese are very proud they were so excited when i said it like that now we've. got

a bit because we've got speaking a bit of mandarin here it is right now i have this do this. yeah. repeat. as often you want to do what. most of you teach me. you actually does our brains are. very did it is difficult because the tonality phrasing isn't it it's all about imitation i just imitated i didn't really know what i was saying they just told me sentences i memorized certain phrases and then just imitate you imitate the found like me even now it's not me it's you have to imitate the way they say it and and i didn't mean i would just start making up sounds to try to get understood let's go to the street markets because there's lots

of them what they like very busy it was raining the night we went but still most people don't have kitchens i mean well that's what i'm told they don't have. they have very small living spaces so they don't have the space or time even in time and use words like crazy to cook at home so they spend a lot of time in these night markets plus the food there is extremely cheap food but the cost to be the cost of living isn't cheap but food there you can eat really well at the chinese or the time when it's market for about $3.00 or 3 to 5 euro so why cut oh yeah absolutely. i would do but now the series goes on with versions on all you tube channel there's going to be a home documentary later this yeah try to reach a part of the series every week aeronaut skull just soto's a few highlights coming up ok well i dressed as a chinese i'm person one of them and i order those oh he's my unic and so he has to

do what i say and now and i mean i don't really eat that much because it's again spicy food this food there is incredibly hot they love it the temperature hot and they spicy hot and. they don't drink with their meals so i was used to that i always have water or something as a drink as a backup and so so for that one for the interest when we turn it around a little bit where i make sure i test. those those great spice people have a lot to look forward to mega laith so much for coming in to us today and we should remember that when the time when these same medium spicy it's very spicy now we have another series already underway called european weddings celebrating the contrasting wedding traditions in different european countries today we're off to italy sicily to be precise and it's perhaps no surprise that sicilian weddings a big in this case one with over 200 guests what is unusual about this wedding is the bearer of the rings not

a normal tradition by the way and one thing of course that you come predict to the wedding is the weather. dark clouds cast a shadow over what should be the happiest day in a person's life. heavy rain puts paid to the dream of an open air wedding the couple live in the town of back area near the syrian capital palermo preparations for the wedding a well underway the couple's dog selma has a big role to play at the wedding she is to be the official ring bearer and needs to practice before the big day. amounting village near palermo is the place where simona and gaetano have chosen to exchange their founds the grounds of this palace of the venue for the open air ceremony. but suddenly the heavens open. the entire proceedings have to be moved into the entrance hall of the palace instead.

thank. our is the master of ceremonies many of the couple's closest friends tell anecdotes and then comes the highpoint the couple exchanged pounds which they've written themselves. my love my wedding foul is as simple and as bold as our relationship. i promise to retain the strength that keeps our love alive and to accept whatever life holds for us the joy and the paying all of it the. sunshine and cold in sleep and in love wherever we are all protect the goodness of your heart in mind now and in the future in the endless wonder of having you by my side. the official ring bearer is raring to go and fulfills her role perfectly.

up by the time the ceremony finishes the rain has stopped now it's raining brice instead of. an old railway station provides the venue for the party the couple opens the band play for their 200 class guests and the wedding reception doesn't disappoint there are 6 courses in all. and of course the bride throws her bouquet into the crowd before cutting the luxuries wedding cake. the couple are clearly enjoying every minute of the lavish party it's a day to remember and even the rain couldn't support. finally music from 6 time grammy winner dr john who died of a heart attack on 1st day aged just 77 his own music was

a unique blend of blues jazz boogie woogie and rock n roll but he also was a much sought after side man for the likes of the rolling stones and a wreath of franklin thanks for watching i'm bob i. think. that. the.

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