redbeanmooncake: Taiwan finally gets noticed!

I am checking in to Taipei's Grand Hotel, the opulent, palacelike structure built by the Generalissimo just a few years after he and his Nationalist army fled to Taiwan in 1949 to escape the Chinese Communists. Frosted-glass Chinese lanterns with ..... Around the corner is an elegant scroll table with a single orchid arching over a book of Chinese ink-and-brush paintings. A woman appears and guides me to my table, separated from the next room by a semi-transparent screen. ...