{"id":9334,"date":"2004-04-08T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=9334"},"modified":"2022-05-04T00:30:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T00:30:35","slug":"good-bye-grandma-pt-2-taipei-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2004\/04\/08\/good-bye-grandma-pt-2-taipei-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Bye Grandma. Taipei, Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rushed back to Taipei after I received the phone call (while on a job in Los Angeles) that my grandma fell gravely ill. She passed away while I was still waiting for my passport to be overnighted to L.A. from Minneapolis… I flew back to help take care of the funeral arrangements. These are the pictures I have taken during the two weeks I was in Taiwan when the funeral was being finalized…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the funeral, we will put grandma’s ashes in the same temple where my mother’s ashes were stored, next to each other…<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Statues of Buddha through the mist and fog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Met up with Joe who happens to be in Taipei at the moment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Taipei 101 at night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dinner with family in Keelung Harbour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Famous for their seafood, the idea is simple – buy your own fresh seafood from the nearby stalls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fresh prawns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Squid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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… and shrimp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My aunt Lee Chin and her husband<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Philip is responsible for picking the “good” seafood ingredients<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And with all the bags of seafood, we would go into a restaurant, and tell them the way we want to prepare them…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My two aunts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The finished product<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another shot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rushed back to Taipei after I received the phone call (while on a job in Los Angeles) that my grandma fell gravely ill. She passed away while I was still waiting for my passport to be overnighted to L.A. from Minneapolis… I flew back to help take care of the funeral arrangements. These are the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSCN0125.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9400,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions\/9400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}