This is a very popular tea stand chain here in Kaohsiung. I don't know who advised them to choose this name, but I think they were having a laugh. (The tea is very good, though.)
I am from Illinois USA. This is actually one of my blood brother's chain store in Taiwan. The Chinese word for stupid has quite a few meanings. If you understand the Chinese next to it, it actually means "silly or have fun". It was designed to create a debate such as the one here as to why someone would name their place "stupid Ice Tea." Asked your Chinese friends to see the uniforms design, the Chinese letter of Stupid is very every cute. The soft drinks are very good here at Stupid too.
I began taking a photo each day on the day I moved to Buenos Aires in August 2006. It's been over five years now, through normal working life in Argentina, a trip all around South America, a long visit home to the US, teaching in Taiwan, traveling around the Middle East, living in Vancouver, and traveling around Canada.
I have a few lapses, but I decided that it was better to feel good about the blog instead of feeling like a slave to it.
These photos are the things that I see - things that are common or interesting or odd or delicious or beautiful or terrible - things that catch my eye in some way. This blog is a way for me to keep in touch with family and friends so very very far away, an extended photography lesson, and a kind of daily journal of my own impressions of places both new and well-known.
2 comments:
Does one get stupid when one drinks it???
Glenn
I am from Illinois USA. This is actually one of my blood brother's chain store in Taiwan. The Chinese word for stupid has quite a few meanings. If you understand the Chinese next to it, it actually means "silly or have fun". It was designed to create a debate such as the one here as to why someone would name their place "stupid Ice Tea." Asked your Chinese friends to see the uniforms design, the Chinese letter of Stupid is very every cute. The soft drinks are very good here at Stupid too.
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