Monday in Taichung

The day was spent at the offices of our distributor, Sou Le, exchanging information and providing training to their sales personnel on the types and uses of TSE's Millable Urethane Rubber (Millathane). We did a mixing demonstration of a Millathane CM compound in a tilt mixer and it mixed pretty well for a first shot with this formula.

Dinner was at a Japanese/Chinese type restaurant where you took your shoes off to sit crosslegged on the floor at the low table. Not the most comfortable position for me, and my back was a little sore when I got back to the hotel, but a hot bath (doing a crossword puzzle) helped. I had a vegetarian 'hot pot' (kinda like 'shabu shabu' that we had in a Japanese restaurant in Hartford) where you cooked your own food in a pot of boiling water/soup, heated by a personal gas burner. With four of us at dinner having this and several others having other dishes that were heated similarly, it got pretty warm. As a "treat", Jerry found a piece of bloody rice cake (see below), that we both tasted and neither fell in love with. I forgot my camera but did take a couple of pix with my cell phone, that I'll attach to the post in the future, when I can dl them.

Tomorrow it's a two hour car ride to Taipei to see some customers, then on Wednesday, flying from Taipei to Guangzhou.

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