Taiwan Culture Shock! | Things That Surprised Me After I Arrived in #taiwanvtuber #indonesian

We can have a free food in Taiwan. Some of my Taiwanese friends said, Oh, you eat rice for breakfast? Men's toilet. She couldn't enter the men's toilet. Hello, welcome to my channel. In this episode, I'm going to talk about what are the things that surprised me when I moved to Taiwan. The first point. Almost all food shops in Taiwan, they don't sell drinks. Why this is so special? Because in Indonesia, when we go to a food shop we want to eat, there's always drinks. Like they will have the menu for drinks. Of course, while you're eating, you're gonna feel thirsty and then you want to buy a drink. But you will not find something like this in Taiwan. Because after you eat, then you want to drink. And then if you want to drink, then you just find another shop or you go to 7-Eleven or any other convenience store to buy a drink. So in Taiwan, they don't provide drinks. Unless for some special shops, they have drinks. But if they provide drinks, usually it's free. For example, a hotpot shop. So in a hotpot shop, they have drinks. And these drinks are free. Okay, number two is many food shops in here are only open in eating time. Which is lunch time or dinner time. Usually they open in lunch time around 11am to 1pm. And then in dinner time, around 5 to 7pm in the night. Sometimes if you want to buy a bento or buy food in the middle of the time, like between lunch and dinner, I think it's more difficult because most of the time they are closed in that time. But when I was in Indonesia, the food shops, they just usually open from morning until the night. So whenever you want to eat, you just can go there. And anytime you're hungry, you just can eat there. But not in here. I'm not saying that every shop is like that, but many of the shops are like that. Okay, number three. I feel, you know, some of my Taiwanese friends said, oh, you eat rice for breakfast? I feel like, yeah, why? They also feel shocked like, why you eat rice? I feel like, why not, right? But people in here tend to eat Taiwanese kind of breakfast food. It's like Tamping, Lopok Kao, burgers, and some kind of toast for example. But not as an Indonesian. We eat rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. How about you? Do you usually get rice in a breakfast? But after some time, actually while I'm here in Taiwan, I get used for not eating rice for breakfast. Time by time, I feel, oh, it's fine, then it's okay for not eating rice. They probably think that rice is something that's too heavy for breakfast. But the whole of my life, when I was in Indonesia, I keep eating rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Okay, that's it. The next is, in Taiwan, if you want to throw garbage, we have to wait for a garbage truck. And this truck will carry garbage, and then you have to throw your garbage in the truck. But first of all, you have to separate between recycle, non-recycle, and kitchen waste. And then after that, you can throw to different part of the truck. Yeah, something like that. Which means, you have to know when, the schedule, and where you will meet the truck. And when and where the schedule of the truck is. So you have to know. But I'm not saying that every part of Taiwan is like that, but especially when you're living in Taipei, then it will be like that. And there comes question, what if we want to throw something very big like, maybe you have some plastic, something very big, or woods, for example, or you have a cupboard, and then, yeah, how can you throw that? I experienced something like this, and if you want to throw cupboard, for example, then you have to break your cupboard first into pieces. Then we have to call to a certain authority for the recycle, for this kind of things. I mean, you guys will talk on a phone to, about the schedule that where, when, and where that you can put your trash, or your wood is. And, for example, at that time, I want to throw some woods, and we will call, and then, in the early morning, like around 5 a.m., before 5 a.m., if I'm not mistaken, and then we have to put the wood in front of the house, and then they will pick it up. And, like, right in the morning, like 7 a.m., they're already gone. And they already have taken it. The next is, I feel like it's pretty weird to bargaining in Taiwan. Bargaining, actually, is something common in Indonesia. Like, when you go to the market, you want to shop for buying some things, either it's clothes, any foods, or whatever it is in a market, especially traditional market, then bargaining is something that most people will do. Even in Indonesia, parents will teach their kids, their children, how to do bargaining. Usually, people in a market like the seller, they will set a high standard, I don't know how standard, they will set a high price. The price is higher than what it has to be. So, that's why we have to bargain, and to get the lower price. But, somehow, in Taiwan, I feel it's pretty weird to do the bargaining, because I don't see any people doing that here. And, somehow, if you do bargaining, I feel a little bit shy. Because, I don't know, I feel the price in here is pretty fixed, and they will not increase the price, like, become too irrational, and everything in here is fixed. And, you just, if the laoban say the price is like that, and it means that's the price. And, if you don't like the price, then you can find something else, or you can find another shop. That's how it works in here. People don't do bargaining. Don't really do bargaining. Next point is, earthquake is so often in Taiwan. So, I feel, before I came to Taiwan, people told me that Taiwan is one of the place in Asia that the frequency of the earthquake is pretty often. When I came to Taiwan, I don't think I feel it in the first semester, I think. But, time by time, when I stay longer in Taiwan, yeah, I really feel it. I think almost every week, there is gonna be earthquake. I mean, like, not in a certain area in Taiwan. But, when I'm saying that, it's often to have an earthquake in here. It's not the earthquake, the definition of earthquake, like, 7 point something, or 8 point something that big. No, not that one, which is happening every day, no. Sometimes, most of the time, it's a small, small earthquake, like, magnitude 3, magnitude 4 earthquake, 5 sometimes. But, there's also some which magnitude is 6 point something, or even 7. The point is, the earthquake frequency in Taiwan is pretty tense. And, you gotta be ready for it. Because, if not, then you're gonna be panic. What I feel amazed in here is that, people in here is, are more prepared on what to do if there's earthquake. Because, I think, most people in here, they got the education, like, the teacher told them how to do if there's an earthquake. But, I don't think I have this kind of lesson, or the things that I have to do when I was back there in Indonesia. Yeah, maybe, our geographical is different. Somehow, in Taiwan, it's pretty more to have an earthquake. That's why people in here know how to do and what to do when there's earthquake. And, the next point is, I don't see people in here iron their clothes. The very first time I come to Taiwan, then, at that time, I was asking someone who already stayed in Taiwan, and, do I have to bring my iron from Indonesia? It's like, why? Why iron? You don't even need to do that. You don't even need to bring that. Because, I'm thinking, why? Because, in my family, we always iron everything. Like, every clothes we will iron, it's your uniform, your clothes, your hands, after you're washing them, we'll iron them to make it very tidy. But, not in here. I don't find anyone iron their clothes in here, which is something I find pretty weird at the beginning. But, yeah, that's what it is in here. Time by time, I get used to it. So, I think it's good, right? If we don't need to iron our clothes, I mean, we can save the time and we don't need to do that. So, if you never lived in Indonesia, and then you know that, actually, in Indonesia, many people will iron their clothes, especially after they wash, they dry it, they will iron their clothes. What do you think? But, but, but, actually, most of the clothes, I think, people in here will not iron their clothes. Only very special clothes, like very formal suits, they will iron their clothes. The next point is, it is weird to shower in the morning. Back when I was still in Indonesia, I would shower like two to three times a day. I mean like at least two times, like in the morning and in the night. But, people in here will only shower in the night. So, when I go shower in the morning, they will see, why are you showering in the morning? Because people in here, after wake up, they'll just brush their teeth and wash their face, go to work, and then go to school. Okay, but I think, not only in Taiwan, but several countries like Japan, Korea also will think the same like that. Maybe it's because the different weather situations, like humidity and everything, and people in here get used to shower in the night before they go to bed. The next point is that I'm very amazed about how Taiwanese are very patient to queue for everything, literally for everything. Like queuing for a cashier, want to buy something, queuing, want to take a scalator, you have to stand on the right, and if you want to take something which requires queuing, then a lot of people, you will queue and very patiently waiting. I think I'm very seldom, like almost never see someone cut the line. Yeah, I feel this culture is pretty good, and it will teach us, we have to respect each other. Even though, no matter who you are, no matter you have a position, no matter you are a big person, like wherever you are, and you are urgent or not, but once you are queuing, then you have to queue, because you have to respect each other. I believe every people will have their own emergency, will have their own business, once you want to take the things or buy the things that requires you to queue, then you have to queue. And do you know another unique thing is we can have a free phone in Taiwan. Free phone, how? So one day I just randomly talked with Taiwanese friend, and then suddenly he want to go to like a sim card shop, something like that, and he wants to renew a contract. And I was saying like contract? Yeah, do you know that in Taiwan we can sign a contract with a certain kind of sim card provider, and then for example, we want to one year contract, and then with this contract, we will pay a certain amount of money every month that we have to pay for the internet, and then while paying that, we can get free phone. Like wow, that was the very beginning I came to Taiwan, I know about this, because I don't find something like this in Indonesia, so I feel it's pretty unique. I believe this is not only in Taiwan, maybe some other Asian countries or the other countries also have something like this, but at that time I was just finding this very unique, and you just sign a contract basically to a certain provider, and then you say you want to sign to have a subscribe for their internet, for example for one year or two years, and then they will give you some sort of choices of package, they will sometimes give you some choices, you also even get some the phone, so it also comes with a price, like each month that you have to pay how much, how much. I feel like it's kind of maybe I can say this is another kind of credit in some way, but you also subscribe their internet, but you get the phone for free cool right? Another thing for bonus is that actually the very first time my impression when I came to Taiwan, okay I was landing in Taipei, in Taoyuan airport and then at the time when I arrived, that was before pandemic in 2018 I went to toilet, so the first time after I checked out immigration I got my baggage and it's finished I went out, I arrived in Taipei, I went to toilet, the toilet was beautiful and it's fine, everything is okay I went inside and then suddenly in the middle, inside the toilet, there is a woman come into the toilet to just walk, like normally walk, it's not like someone who are so shocked, oh I'm in a wrong toilet, no, it's like she really entered the men's toilet so I was like, am I in a wrong toilet? But I see no, this is men's toilet, so I was thinking like, I don't know, I don't know, and then I just finish everything in the toilet and I wash my hands and I go out, I still keep thinking why there is a woman come into men's toilet, so time by time when I get used living in Taiwan I feel, ah, I know why, yeah so people in here, usually there are some people who will help to clean the toilet right, or help to maintain the toilet's clean, usually it's a woman no matter it's in men or women's toilet, do you find this is something cool and different? yeah, because in Indonesia the one who help to clean the men's toilet is men, the one who help to clean the women's toilet is women so I feel it's pretty weird at the beginning but time by time I get used by that okay, that's all several things that shocked me and surprised me when I moved to Taiwan, so let me know do you have any other questions or you want to discuss or you have any other points that you want to share when you come to Taiwan what are the things that makes you surprised thank you very much for watching this video and I'll see you guys in the next video bye bye