January 27, 2008

Betel Nut Girls of Taiwan

Recently I came through the following video while I was watching some YouTube videos about Taiwan. It is a short documentary about Bin Lang Girls in Taiwan (a.k.a as Betel Nut girls). I wrote more about them in my old post few years ago when I was in Taiwan, I used to see them in their booths every in Taipei. From the way they are dressed and from the small little booths with colorful lights that they sit inside, one may get wrong impression of them taking as prostitutes. But they claim that it has nothing to do with it, and it's all about selling this tobacco like betel nut. People chew them and get some buzz from it. One thing's true; this whole betel nut industry has got lots of money in Taiwan!

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4 Comments:

Anonymous exinco said...

hot and sexy

January 30, 2008 10:33 AM  
Blogger C K said...

I wanted to try one (the betel nuts, I mean) when I was in Taiwan some time back but didn't get around to do that. How does it taste like?

February 11, 2008 11:56 AM  
Blogger aibek said...

ck,
I didn't go that far to try it. Coz I've seen people using (read chewing) it and it gives your mouth red-orange fill which looks very disgusting.

February 11, 2008 12:11 PM  
Anonymous Myrzagul said...

funny indeed.

February 12, 2008 10:56 PM  

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