Betel Nut Girls, Taiwan's wonder

Geez, i have to admit heartily that i have never been to Taiwan, but i'd heard great deals about the Betel Nut Girls dressing scantily to attract customers. Having heard from friends that they are almost everywhere the places, but seriously it's really hard for me to picture what they looked likes actually until today, having fallen sick at CNY, i started to surf some of the blog sites dedicated to write about their life in Taiwan. Mostly, making up of english educators teaching in Taiwan are offering great insight into Taiwan's Political scene and social mechanism, [one of my favorite soughted after topic].

Despite the local media have been portraying how mess up Taiwan's political scene thru their internal parliamentary struggles via parties brawls, however one failed to realise how democratic has Taiwan gotten to date and how Authoritarian our hinterland had gotten to be. In the next few years, i won't see Singapore turning to be a much open society due to PAP's paternality ruling.

Interesting to said, President Chen has been rotating Premier almost every years. And to correlate it with their political struggles and upholding it's existence against Mainland Chinese's yearness for Chinese's Unification effort, Netel Nut girl's is another profession that has little appreciation....at least not in the eye of a dirty old man :D

Who are Netel Nut girl actually? And why they were so integral to Taiwan economic and social's status quo despites citing long term consumption of Netel Nut leads to oral cancer.

According to Micheal's blog, there are closed to 100,000 Betel Nut stands scattering the whole of Taiwan mainland, the economical impact could have been quite an impact on re-creating jobs for these girls, not dismissing the severance of supply chains on Betel Nut plantation and public's demands.

Excerpts from Michael Thurton's site.

Betel Nut Girls are one of Taiwan's distinctive features. Born at the beginning of the 1990s, their popularity grew out of a number of social trends: vanishing jobs for unskilled females in Taiwan's factories, the embrace of "traditional" Taiwanese culture that celebrated betel nut, and competition for customers for the island's 100,000 betel nut stands. According to one researcher, about 60,000 of the stands feature an underdressed babe. Keep in mind that the nuts have to be processed -- slit open and a mixture of flavorings inserted -- a repetitive fine motor task well suited to young, unskilled women, so that the use of young women is probably inevitable in any case. As for myself, I have no idea why barely clad women selling stimulants along public roadways is so interesting. I offer this page purely as a visual database about this important facet of the culture and economy of Taiwan.

More pictures here

And Leakypen's blog aslo have a similar article as well. Picture also from Leakypen