Today was a pretty busy day, but let’s start with the fun part. Tonight we went out to eat Thai Food at Mei Kung restaurant. It’s a pretty well known Thai place and Maggie frequently points out various local celebrities dining there. The only one I’ve really know all that well was Shunza but tonight when we were eating Maggie pointed out that Mavis Fan (范曉è±) was waiting outside for a table. After a while she came in and sat at the table right next to ours. I’ve been listening to her music for several years.
Anyways, back to other things. This morning I went to the accountant’s office to pick up my bank book, business license, tax stamp, and a bunch of various documents. Then I went to the bank with Maggie where we did a whole lot of stuff including getting the company bank account finally activated, get the extra US$ money over the initial startup capital converted to TW$, claim a wire transfer from my US account to my personal account, and do a bank transfer of the second payment for the contractor. I’m getting good at writing my Chinese name now from signing lots of documents.
Then I went to check out how the shop is going. The wallpaper is all up now and they were working on the walls in the back room. With the wallpaper and tiling done up front, it’s really starting to look nice.
Do the Subway wallpapers in Taiwan also have to have all those NY Subway things that I see in the subway over here?
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Yes, the wallpaper is imported from the US, and is the same style used in current restaurants. However, newer restaurants built in the last few years use the new Tuscany style where the Subway maps are in more muted tones than the older wallpapers. Easiest way to tell if a Subway is Tuscany style is whether the paper behind the counter is of brickwork. If it is, they have Tuscany style.
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