Ming and I did the interview with 陳鴻 yesterday. He is not only gracious but also having a passion to integrate food to the way we live our life. Good food starts from home too.
We shared our vision on Nonzero and food culture in Taiwan. I think one dead end of Taiwan food culture is that we emphasize too much on taste, not enough on bigger issue like the role of food in our lifestyle, personal value and social issue, such as depletion of fish stock in the ocean, hygiene and yes, paying tax. No one ever talks about restaurant being a responsible corporate citizen, and that they need to pay tax, requiring their team to eat proper sit down dinner like the restaurant guests, most importantly, demanding their team to change, both lifestyle and creativity.
How to mix timeless dishes with innovative dishes is the benchmark of how great a restaurant is. No young man would like to work at a restaurant that stays the same using a secret recipe passed down from generations before. It may be a good business model, however, it is a bad way to evolve and renew.
There are so many things we could talk about during the interview. Unfortunately, we have limited time. I have to give credit to 陳鴻 for his professionalism and the vision to expand Taiwan’s uniqueness through out Asia Pacific, China and the world.
We have so many things to offer to the world, one thing I hope we can offer is not just which restaurant is the best to eat, but, which restaurant is having a vision to redefine restaurant from tasty food to a lifestyle.
Thank you, 陳鴻 , for finding Nonzero’s deeper mission.
Ping
Two episodes that surprised me a lot:
1. 陳鴻 secretly arrange a special guest during the interview. Sophie Huang, the most elegant and understated fashion designer in Taiwan, and a hero of mine, to call in and shared her love of Nonzero restaurant. Sophie is one of the early adopters to Nonzero. She sometimes came alone with a book in hand, enjoying a quiet lunch alone. This is the most beautiful scene when you see people who are so comfortable and at ease when they eat alone at Nonzero with an absorbing moment while reading a book. Thank you, Sophie Huang.
2. Ming’s sister called right after the interview from Malaysia and told her that three of us did an fantastic job. Wow, this is the power of instant internet radio programing. Ming has forwardedhttp://hichannel.hinet.net/player/radio/index.jsp?radio_id=232
UFO internet radio address to her sister before we started interview. Now, we can see the power of internet radio. People living in Malaysia and Taiwan could listen to UFO simultaneously.
Anyone interested in developing a low cost internet radio business. I know Monocle has done a great job to explore this business model. Please check out?http://www.monocle.com?to see how they built a brand and an evolving/progressive business through this innovated media channel. Taiwan has been a laggard for so long due to the laziness and internal focused of our media giant.
1. 聽一首老歌：年輕的心 “Young at Heart” by Frank Sinatra
請先閱讀歌詞之後再聽歌。
Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you
If you’re young at heart
For it’s hard, you will find, to be narrow of mind
If you’re young at heart
You can go to extremes with impossible schemes
You can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams
And life gets more exciting with each passing day
And love is either in your heart or on it’s way
Don’t you know that it’s worth every treasure on earth
To be young at heart
For as rich as you are it’s much better by far
To be young at heart
And if you should survive to 105
Look at all you’ll derive out of being alive
Then here is the best part, you have a head start
If you are among the very young at heart
And if you should survive to 105
Look at all you’ll derive out of being alive
Then here is the best part, you have a head start
If you are among the very young at heart
2.再介紹一首最近在美國很受歡迎的一首歌：
“Somebody that I used to know” by Gotye
這首歌也引起很多人「cover」(新字新用法：用自己的方式，唱同樣的歌)
同樣的，請先閱讀歌詞：
Now and then I think of when we were together,
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die,
Told myself that you were right for me,
But felt so lonely in your company,
But that was love and it’s an ache I still remember.
You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness,
Like resignation to the end,
Always the end,
So when we found that we could not make sense,
Well you said that we would still be friends,
But I’ll admit that I was glad that it was over.
But you didn’t have to cut me off,
Make out like it never happened,
And that now we’re nothing,
And I don’t even need your love,
But you treat me like a stranger,
And that feels so rough,
No you didn’t have to stoop so low,
Have your friends collect your records,
And then change your number,
I guess that I don’t need that though,
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know,
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know,
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know,
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know.
Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I’d done
And I don’t wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn’t catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know…
But you didn’t have to cut me off,
Make out like it never happened,
And that now were nothing,
And I don’t even need your love,
But you treat me like a stranger,
And that feels so rough.
No you didn’t have to stoop so low,
Have your friends collect your records,
And then change your number,
I guess that I don’t need that though,
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know,
Somebody,
I used to know,
Somebody,
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know,
Somebody,
I used to know,
Somebody,
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know,
I used to know
That I used to know
最後，有一個特別的臺灣文化，但也是很重要的── Red Room，一個聆聽的文化。因為它的確是一種生活模式，有著一群來自不同國家及背景的人們，在每個月，藉由分享他們的音樂、詩、感受、謎語或故事，來表達 對這個生活模式的真實信仰。我真誠地向大家建議來參加Red Room，並且享受這個創新且愉悅的臺灣文化。
我們希望你會喜歡並從中獲得啟發，以下是我們過去深受啟發的聚會精選分享內容…
Gordon Tseng
The link to the song, Summer Snow in Formosa : http://www.indievox.com/song/46687
Zhuangzi
Fly with him to outer space
To view the world’s ridiculous face.
Travel with him into your inner base
To enjoy nature’s original pace.
In the 1980’s my father was a senior strategist in Air Force Intelligence. He worked on a secret project to conceal nuclear missiles in the American suburban environment. I grew up with the top half of a Titan II nuclear missile sticking out of my backyard.
The aluminum cylinder rose into the air thirty feet above the cut grass. Rustic wood panel camouflage made the missile appear to be a grain silo, but with the letters U, S, and A down the side. And in the late morning the shadow of the nose cone would crawl across my bedroom floor like the finger of God reminding me of my own mortality. Every morning.
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Nate Murray
Radicofani
The vast, green Tuscan hills stretched out for miles in all directions. Directly above me, a cobblestone bell tower chimed off some hour in the midafternoon, though which hour exactly, it really didn’t matter. Much farther above me, the clouds formed a gray sheet across the sky. But it was not the monochrome gray which would indicate a bleak day. Rather, it was a vibrant quilt of many shades of gray, which kept the temperature at a comfortable cool. I could practically taste the air’s freshness.
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Credits & Sponsors 特別感謝與贊助
Tremendous gratitude to all our volunteers. Thank you to all who transform the space of the venue into the Red Room, prepare the food and drinks, greet everyone at the door, fill all who thirst till their cups near runneth over…and especially to all who help clean up. Stage Time & Wine would not be possible without your support and the beautiful spirit in whch it is given!
Red Room Coordinator | Manav Mehta • Summary | Ruth Giordano, Kevin Ke • Translation | Edward Chiang • Online Presence | Roma Mehta • Photography | Red Roomers, Terrance Shih
RED ROOM www.redroom.com.tw Location : Aveda’s Learning Kitchen, above the Aveda Salon Red Room 位於 AVEDA 的教學廚房，位於 AVEDA Salon 2樓：2F #117 Sec. 1 Da-an Rd. 台北市大安路一段117號2F
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