Streetside vendors - Taiwan's cash economy

The cash economy in Taiwan is huge. Almost every street (and under bridges as here) have vendors selling wares -- often produced in Taiwan's (or China's) factories.

Fun with outdoor electrical wiring

Boing Boing had a post on creative, ad hoc (can you say "poor urban planning?") electrical cables in Hanoi, Vietnam. One finds such wacky (and dangerous?) cabling all over Asia -- even Taipei County, Taiwan as these photos I took show.