Aaron and I got out of town this past weekend, heading across Taiwan to Hualien, a lovely city on the island’s rugged east Coast. We ate some delicious clams picked right out of the ocean, and a fresh pineapple and mango smoothie, and a lighter-than-air sesame puff, with Aaron gamely eating a pig’s intestine stuffed with sweet rice and jammed, hot-dog style, with cucumbers, pickles, garlic and other unidentifiable objects. We also ran across a traditional Taiwanese pastime: batting cages.
