Russia and China

 Meet & greet series V: my Africa travel pal over a chicken soup place 好好食房，my trade school classmate over tea in his office, my college alumna over a Japanese wine house 居酒屋, one of my junior high school classmate over lunch at Evergreen Maritime Museum 長榮海事博物館餐廳, and another backpacker I met at the hostel in St. Petersburg, Russia over afternoon coffee.  The wine house boss is Japanese sake brewers and also qualified as international Japanese sake lecturer. They offer many special dishes, such as Soft-Boiled Egg， Salt-grilled chicken ankle, salmon liver, Jinshan Temple miso cucumber, salt-grilled sweetfish （四貝溏心蛋, 塩燒雞踝, 鮭魚肝， 金山寺味噌小黃瓜， 塩燒子持香魚），etc. ，paired with various plum wines, including one cost $800 TWD per cup ($25 USD, 8 times of the typical Japanese plum wine). The maritime museum has a variety of model ships, from canoes built by ancient humans using digging and chiseling to various sailboats, mechanical powered ships, and work boats; there are also bamboo rafts ...

 Nangang Exhibition Hall 南港展覽館: 2024年TAITRONICS 台北國際電子產業科技展、AIoT Taiwan台灣國際人工智慧暨物聯網展，OPTO Taiwan國際光電大展. Also 2024 Taiwan Hardware Show 台灣五金展, 台灣金屬材料暨精密加工設備展（iMT Taiwan）與台灣工業暨職業安全展（T-Safe）。 TAITRONICS and AIoT Taiwan focused on "AInnovation Now", covering four major areas: "AI IoT Applications", "Low-Earth Orbit Satellites", "Innovation Energy" and "UAVs". The exhibition brought together domestic and foreign companies to showcase the latest artificial intelligence technologies and solutions, with more than 300 manufacturers participating in the exhibition and using 550 booths.  OPTO Taiwan took "Forward-looking Technology" as its theme, exhibited the results of innovative optoelectronic technologies, and brought together optoelectronic manufacturers, professional research institutions and industry professionals to discuss the latest developments in the optoelectronic field. There were three highlights, namely silicon photonics/...

 Meet & greet series IV: two old colleague over lunch buffet at 花園大酒店饗聚廚房and an old friend over afternoon tea. The dessert bar is a highlight. Macarons, exquisite small cakes, and handmade bread all come from the hotel's dessert room, making it difficult to choose. There is also the traditional street dessert "Chimney roll" 煙囪卷 from Hungary, which is made by rolling the puff pastry in a special mold, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar powder and baked, and served with soft serve ice cream. There are also a variety of ice creams, Haagen-Dazs, and traditional handmade tofu pudding with fruits. Another highlight is the beverage bar, where you can choose from freshly made vegetable and fruit juices, congratulatory chocolate smoothies, coffee, and sparkling drinks, DIY fruit sparkling drinks made by the chef himself, and a variety of beers. Then I walked home to see night lights and strolled via a night market 臨江觀光夜市。

 101 Unique Cultural and Creative 101獨一文創： 2024 Taiwan IC Smart Manufacturing Annual Conference臺灣IC智造年會 Through thematic discussions, IC companies, technical experts, domestic brand owners and other cross-industry partners were gathered to tell the story of Taiwan's IC technology application and transformation from different perspectives. The goal is to gradually promote domestic ICs in product development, further promote the formation of Taiwan's IC technology and application support ecosystem, and gather the energy of the industrial chain to jointly create AIoT innovative products.