Fish, Playstation 2, and regifting stuff from the Taiwanese president

Here are some more of Corey's Taiwan impressions from last night:

[19:20:32] Corey: o_O
[23:51:44] Flami: Plates mean nothing!: ???
[23:52:32] Corey: guess what I had for breakfast
[23:54:11] Flami: strudel! no, wait... that's what I had for dessert tonight
[23:54:18] Flami: SLB
[23:57:02] Corey: right! for the second time
[23:58:15] Corey: in Tainan (a city here), there is a shrimp roll shop. you can only get them fresh there, and frozen in 7-11s around the country... haven't had frozen, but fresh quite easily kicks SLB's ass, as well as probably all other food here :P
[23:58:37] Corey: regular dumplings are also a bit better than SLB since they don't fall apart as easily
[23:58:53] Corey: pretty similar, though
[00:03:44] Flami: right for only the second time? COREY!
[00:05:15] Corey: I've had various kinds of dumplings lots of times :P
[00:05:35] Corey: plus, you can only get SLB in the morning in most places, and we've been sleeping in
[00:06:22] Corey: they have lots of stuff more interesting than SLB in the evening :P I've had various types of hot pot about four times now
[00:06:28] Corey: that is pretty good
[00:06:36] Corey: the fish here kicks ass too
[00:17:43] Flami: hot pot is very good in the winter
[00:19:31] Flami: what kind of fish did you have?
[00:23:07] Corey: I dunno, lots of stuff
[00:23:17] Corey: nobody usually knows the English name
[00:28:30] Flami: well, as long as it was good, then..
[00:31:38] Flami: guess what sort of bubble tea I just got in from having
[00:34:50] Corey: bubble tea flavored tea
[00:35:15] Corey: I like it with the bigger balls, not the little ones
[00:35:18] Corey: and no ice!
[00:36:33] Flami: ..... raspberry-mango with milk, slush, full sugar, and coconut jelly
[00:42:35] Flami: why no ice?
[00:54:38] Corey: it melts after a while and makes it watery, then the last part is gross
[01:11:26] Flami: just get it with slush :P
[01:15:11] Flami: that doesn't melt and make it watery much
[01:32:23] Flami: obligatory 24 reference: BOMB!!! KILL THE PRESIDENT!! KILL TOM LENNOX!!!
[01:46:27] Corey: that's not nice
[01:47:22] Flami: since when is 24 a "nice" show? :P
[01:54:22] Flami: certain people are plotting to kill the president, and thought someone was in on it until the last second, so they gagged him in a closet
[01:56:50] Corey: I got a present from the president here
[01:58:40] Corey: the Taiwan president :P
[01:58:44] Corey: a big box!
[01:58:53] Corey: I had to get rid of the box to get it into my suitcase
[02:01:24] Flami: you are not serious
[02:02:21] Corey: 100% serious, but it was regifted to me through someone else :P but the president gave it to that person
[02:02:46] Corey: Jane's uncle is a general in the army here, and was part of the people that guarded the president recently or something
[02:03:10] Corey: he also hooked us up with a free room in an army hotel / base thing in another city
[02:03:42] Corey: four rooms actually, I think...
[02:04:29] Corey: it's just a gift box full of cookies and stuff
[02:05:01] Corey: pretty massive though :P taking it out of the box made it quite a bit smaller, and I'm actually leaving one part of it since I don't have any room for it, and there were two of that anyway :P
[02:15:14] Flami: cool stuff
[02:17:27] Corey: I bought a Playstation 2 here too
[02:18:07] Corey: two actually, sorta :P I bought one for myself yesterday, but earlier we bought one (well, Jane and her brother did) for Jane's mom, so she can play Mahjong games
[02:18:20] Corey: they're ready for copied games straight from the stores here :P
[02:18:39] Corey: Jane's mom's won't play copied PS1 games though, or there's a trick we don't know about to run them...
[02:19:38] Corey: mine can because I made Jane ask a few shops if they could, and brought pirate US PS1 and PS2 games to test before I paid for it :P so mine works with PS1 games too.. but there's a trick to starting a PS1 game where you hit reset twice in a row to make it play
[02:19:46] Corey: PS2 games require no trick
[02:20:14] Corey: I have a real PS1 that plays pirate games, but the CD motor is pretty shot, so it doesn't work well anymore.. stuff skips a lot
[02:20:58] Corey: I already have a bunch of PS2 games that I downloaded after finding a semi-working PS2 emulator.. but the PS2 emulators definitely aren't ready for playing games seriously yet.. and probably require a new computer to play them smoothly anyway
[02:48:49] Flami: makes sense... going to bed since it's almost 3 AM here, and I'm still sick :P
[03:08:22] Corey: had to go to dinner. I'll probably talk to you from home next, my plane leaves in a little over 21 hours