​Ambrose Wang

 Most young people nowadays have no idea what it feels like to be poor. The following short story may help those born with a silver spoon in their mouths to gain some understanding。 I don’t know when “GDS Meat Sauce” was first introduced, but I remember tasting it for the first time in 1964, the year I taught in Keelung. At that time, this meat sauce, priced at six NT dollars...

 Most young people nowadays have no idea what it feels like to be poor. The following short story may help those born with a silver spoon in their mouths to gain some understanding。 I don’t know when “GDS Meat Sauce” was first introduced, but I remember tasting it for the first time in 1964, the year I taught in Keelung. At that time, this meat sauce, priced at six NT dollars...

The year was 1966. The epic movie The Sand Pebbles was filmed on location in Taiwan.  The star of the movie Mr. Steve McQueen shipped the full set of his gym equipment from Hollywood to Taipei.   As an interpreter (see note 1), one of my early assignments was to oversee the setup of the workout equipment in his leased residence.  (The house was an one-story single family home located...

 One day in September 2017, I received a phone call from my friend Serge Pun. He phoned from Myanmar to tell me that the Archbishop of Yangon was in a bind about the impending visit of Pope Francis which was set to take place in less than three months. The small Catholic Church of Myanmar did not have enough money in its coffer to pay for all the local expenses. (The TV company would broadcast...

 One day in September 2017, I received a phone call from my friend Serge Pun. He phoned from Myanmar to tell me that the Archbishop of Yangon was in a bind about the impending visit of Pope Francis which was set to take place in less than three months. The small Catholic Church of Myanmar did not have enough money in its coffer to pay for all the local expenses. (The TV company would broadcast...