In the Autumn of 2002, David Tall was a Visiting Scholar at the National Taiwan Normal University, in Taipei. October 10th is the National Holiday to celebrate the birth of the Republic of China in 1911. At this time David and Sue Tall travelled to Hualien with his one-time PhD student Abe Chin, for a short holiday with the family of Abe’s wife Grace. On their first night, instead of going to a restaurant, Abe and Grace took David and Sue on a progressive supper, taking food from three successive vendors.