Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor

In Taiwan, we don't have a printer connected to our computers. Like lots of students in Taiwan, if we need something printed, we put it on a memory stick and take it to a print shop. This is my print shop.

It's a good walk and not as convenient as an inhome printer, but you don't have to worry about ink cartridges, paper supplies and printer drivers. And the staff is helpful and the price for a black and white page is about 1NT(3 cents) and for a color page 7NT(about 21 cents).

Across the street from the print shop is the Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation. As a holdover from the Japanese ruling Taiwan(1895-1945), tobacco and liquor in Taiwan is controlled, distributed, produced and sold by the Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation(TTL).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Tobacco_and_Liquor_Corporation

TTL uses old beer kegs as part of its' fence facing the print shop, so it stands out. What else is there to do with so many beer kegs?

The TTL was a monopoly until 2002 when Taiwan entered the WTO. It has made the transition to a government for-profit organization. It has promoted new products like fruit wine.

But the regular beer is popular and good, as I can attest to.

But like all liquor companies they promote music events too.

From across the street it looks like the girl in the advertisement is wearing pasties. I don't think I have seen pasties in more than 30 years. And to think that they were used by a government agency in Taiwan, was just too much, I had to take a closer look.

An even closer look shows that the "pasties" was added by an "artist" with a can of spray paint. But it's been up for about a month now so I guess it is OK.