#Taiwan #cityscapes: A traditional restaurant in #Hsinchu near the City God Temple / 新竹都城隍廟.
@LoneLocust People in #Hsinchu don't do anything but work for 16 hours a day, spend 1 hour commuting and 1 hour eating a day, and spend the remaing time getting ready for bed, sleeping, and getting ready for work. Anything else is forbidden.

Periodically searching the Fediverse for toots and tooters from #hsinchu #新竹

Today I found a prostitution ring. Er, sorry, “Soft and warm girls who deliver themselves to your hotel room to make tea. Cash only.”

Big City in #Hsinchu. Advertised as the place where "everyone in Hsinchu either is, or is on their way to". #Taiwan

Let’s have fun with translation from the real menu near my future home in #Hsinchu, #Taiwan.

My wife says that the Chinese characters would literally translate as “Crispy Smells Good 7 Miles Away” (Approx), but the English “translation” calls it “Crispy Chicken Ass”

What is it actually?

It’s chicken ass.

Family meeting today just about cinched it. Looks like we’re moving to #Hsinchu #Taiwan next school year.

(Barring any unexpected gotchas.)

@tootbrute Family Pizza in #Zhubei, close to #Hsinchu high speed rail station.
用 NanoBananaPro 跑了一張超酷的圖!🧶✨
是毛線編織風格的新竹市,連今天的氣溫跟東門城都在裡面,超可愛的啦。

Generated this super cool image using NanoBananaPro! 🧶✨
It's a crochet-style Hsinchu City, complete with today's weather and the East Gate. So cute!

NanoBananaProで超クールな画像を生成しました!🧶✨
あみぐるみ風の新竹市です。今日の天気や東門城も入っていて、とても可愛いですね。

#NanoBananaPro #AIart #AIgeneration #Hsinchu #Taiwan #Crochet #Amigurumi #AIイラスト #新竹 #新竹美食 #編織風格

I suspect for foreigners, #Hsinchu #Taiwan must be a bit of a hard sell. Unlike Taipei, it has no subway system, and the public busses aren’t well-regarded, plus it’s a much smaller city, with less to do, and less places to get things you might be familiar with back home.

It’s no joke that the first pitch potential employers are making when trying to say how good Hsinchu is, “we’ve got a #Costco.”

🌐 "Un attacco a Hsinchu non sarebbe solo un disastro locale, ma un terremoto tecnologico globale! 🏭💻 #TechSecurity #Hsinchu"

🔗 https://www.tomshw.it/scienze/taiwan-sviluppa-difesa-missilistica-tipo-iron-dome-2025-11-13

Taiwan sviluppa difesa missilistica tipo Iron Dome

Oltre 600 aziende tech concentrate a Hsinchu, con TSMC e sei impianti di semiconduttori. Uno studio quantifica l'impatto di un attacco missilistico sull'ecosistema globale.

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