A: Apart from the channel of Xander 73, Taiwan’s first 10-million YouTuber, what other channels are also popular?
B: Some top Taiwanese YouTube channels include “Muse Asia,” “Cdrama BOX” and “Roman and Sharon” — with 6.65, 6.57 and 6.41 million subscribers respectively.
A: Oops, I’ve never heard of them.
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B: You must have heard of Jay Chou. At 23rd place, the singer’s channel has 29.4 million subscribers.
A: My favorite channel, “Listening While Working,” has 139,000 followers. Hopefully it’ll become a 10-million channel someday.
A: 台灣除了奇軒成為首位千萬YouTuber,還有哪些熱門頻道啊?
B: 接下來分別是︰「Muse Asia」,665萬訂閱、「Cdrama BOX」,657萬訂閱、「Roman and Sharon」,641萬訂閱。
A: 我都沒聽過耶。
B: 「周杰倫Jay Chou」你總聽過吧?他的頻道也有294萬訂閱,排在第23名。
A: 我最愛的頻道「上班可以聽LWW」還只有13.9萬訂閱,希望它有天也能突破千萬!
(By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
A: From Logy and MUME to JL Studio, winners on the Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants list are all high-end fine dining restaurants. B: Really? I wonder how a meal costs there? A: I once dined at RAW, which used to be on the list: the meal cost NT$6,888 each plus 10 percent service charge. B: But fine dining establishments usually offer better food, decor and service, so they are more pricey. A: Let’s start saving money now, so we can go once a year. A: 獲選為2024「亞洲50最佳餐廳」的Logy、MUME、JL Studio,都是高檔的「精緻餐飲」。 B: 真的嗎?不知道吃一餐多少錢? A: 我去吃過曾上榜的RAW,每個人就要6,888加一成。 B: 不過精緻飲食餐廳的食物、環境、服務都比較好,自然也不便宜。 A: 我們來存錢吧,每年去吃一次。 (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
Food shortages have been experienced by people across the world throughout the centuries, but these challenges have driven people to cope, like the Taiwanese, who have found creative culinary uses for all parts of their animals, including blood. Pig’s blood cake, or rice blood cake, consists of sticky rice mixed with animal blood. After being steamed, the cakes are often cut into rectangles and skewered onto bamboo skewers so people can enjoy them while walking. It can also be braised or cooked in soup. 糧食不足是各國多少世紀以來的難題,但面對困境,台灣人學會善加利用牲畜的每個部位,包含血液。豬血糕又稱做米血糕,在糯米中混入豬血後,蒸熟後切成長方形,插上竹籤方便邊走邊吃,還可以滷豬血糕或煮湯。 shortage (n.) 缺少,匱乏 rectangle (n.) 長方形 There are regional variations in how pig’s blood cake is eaten. In northern Taiwan, people
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