Press Release: A CHOPSTIX GUIDE TO TAIWAN - KATY ROBERTS

A Chopstix guide to Taiwan by Katy Roberts has just been published by Just Done Productions – Publishing.

 

“On stepping off the plane on my return back to South Africa after teaching English in Taiwan for 2 years, my brother handed me a padded envelope filled with every postcard, every email, and every letter I had ever sent home, with the instruction, “Put this in a book”.

 

What started out as a simple journal entry to convince myself that I am, in fact, sane for traveling across the far oceans to a place that was merely a picture in my Std 8 Atlas, a people and culture that I usually took two seconds (not one) to notice in the café, and to a language that I only associated with sub-standard kung fu movies and dodgy little smoky places they called “Chinese restaurants”, gradually grew to become two diaries, and then 5, and after putting all my thoughts down on paper and pulling it all together, it now displays itself as a 45 000 – 50 000 word journey about a young South African girl entering a country so vastly different from anything she previously called “normal”.

 

This is the kind of book that I was desperately seeking to find before leaving for the East in the first place. There is only so much that a travel guide can prepare one for – it’s the personal touches of the culture and the stories of actual experiences that provide a human face behind the customs and cultures described in day-to-day travel guides.

I consider my book to be more of a personal-diary-meet-cultural-companion-but-not-quite-a-travel-guide kind of piece. It’s an introduction to the Taiwanese culture but with a personal flair.

 

A ChopstiX guide to Taiwan is aimed at people experiencing any new country or culture for the first time. Because it serves as a light read (you could read a chapter per night – as each chapter serves as a little experience on its own or you could finish the whole thing in one gulp and not feel that you’ve overeaten) – it is not only restricted to the Far East, but aims to equip any traveler, venturing into the unknown, with a few little hints and giggles at what they could expect from a different culture. It’s an invitation to laugh at me and the situations I found myself in, and when they experience a similar one, they know that they’re not isolated in their experience. I would have loved to have known that before I ventured over. “ Katy Roberts

 

This 248 page book contains 14 pages of colour photographs and one-page Fast Facts which provide information ranging from the Food, Religion, Superstitions and Taboos, Festivals and History to Language.

 

Price: Black and white: R170   Full colour: R270

 

About the Author:

Eating sheep testicles is something Katherine Roberts hopes never to go through again, but it did contribute to some one of the many more interesting experiences she has had as a world traveler, many of which she shares in this book. No stranger to exploring continents, Katy was born in France, grew up in South Africa, and has actually been to Oman, among some other off-the-beaten-track places. At school she learnt to play the piano, which was pretty cool because when she got to Taiwan as an English Teacher, she joined a jazz band, that never actually paid her a cent, but did help her explore the darker side of Taiwanese nightclubs. She currently works in Stellenbosch, saving up to feed her travel habit. Clifford Roberts

 

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