- Asian Trippers
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by Jin Li Hai
Chinese new year is here; Xin Ying Kwai Le (happy new year) and Gong Shi Fa Tai (Hope you get rich) as they say around here. It is now the year of the Ox; and we are all still going through the same shit. The Taiwanese are forced to be with family for a few years; during this time, they prepare a giant family feast (which people post on their IG’s saying happy new year and low key flexing off their family wealth), play Majhong with their Chinese New Year red envelope money (grandparents give kids; older kids give their parents) and take walks with each other, watch TV and compare who’s kids are achieving more with their lives.
Fortunately, foreigners like me are free from this obligation and miles away from their family, so we’re living the dream in pursuit of our economic independence right? During this time, most places are closed. Including most of the places we get our food from, so this does throw a spanner in our best constructed plans of chilling non stop; so one is forced to improvise.
Cooking myself? Get out of here. I’ve got games to play! Articles to write! Things to smoke! I’m getting lit on my off days to remind myself that working for goals deserves breaks; and what better way, then to visit a love motel in Taiwan?
Now, for those of the readers who don’t quite know what a love motel is, let me break it down for you. Originally intended as a place where couples can lay in luxury for an hour or two at an affordable rate, they are quite the common phenomenon in Taiwan. They offer anonymity (for the spouse cheaters); a good place to get laid; and…a nice place to have a party with a few friends.
So imagine this…for R450, you can be in a 4 star hotel (the size and scope varies with price; this is a standard fare, entry level kind I’m talking about); you can rent a giant bedroom and bed, with showers and a hot tub, with shampoos, bubble bath and TV (including porn channels). For a little higher you can get swimming pools, a few hot tubs, and a karaoke bar. You can bring in your own drinks, split the cost between friends, and get mega lit, or even have a K-hole orgy (if that’s your thing…I’ve heard of such tales between the grape vine).
Personally mister Li Hi himself has dabbled and explored. In fact, the first night I arrived in Taiwan, my friend who had agreed to let me stay at his place and show me the ropes while I looked for a job (sans agency), took me to a motel party, where I met a lot of people. Many a flirtatious American girl, a woman from Russia and few guys that I can’t remember at all; but what I do remember was that a joint was passed around, and I had a deep discussion with a woman from Albania while smoking a J in a hot tub, so that’s a pretty cool memory.
Since then, LiHai’s been there for birthday parties, with his trusty toys, getting his head sky high in the heat and cooling down in the pools, taking his lady friends there to feel safe and secure for their first dabbles and even an Ad for a new start up speaker through an adult student I was teaching…but that’s a story for another time.
Motel’s are fun for taking MDMA, celebrating parties; feeling fancy and getting away from the kids and getting proper wrecked in your own protective bubble and have a taste of the high lie.
Lets keep this short and sweet; hope you all stay high and stay lifted; and hope that you all think about all the fun things you can do while in Taiwan, in a love motel.
Tao Te Ching- Chapter 12
The five colors make man’s eyes blind;
The five notes make his ears deaf;
The five tastes injure his palate;
Riding and hunting
Make his mind go wild with excitement;
Goods hard to come by
Serve to hinder his progress.
Hence the sage is
For the belly
Not for the eye.
Therefore he discards the one and takes the other. – Lao Tzu
