Movie Theater ft. Spider-Man

Our plans for this weekend were foiled by the weather. We originally planned on venturing down to the southern part of the island to spend all weekend at Sun Moon Lake, a gorgeous tourist destination, but the storms came in and made it pointless for us to go (silly typhoon season). So instead we stayed in our city, Changhua, which turned out to be a much needed respite from all of the constant working and traveling we've been putting ourselves through as of late.

After spending the morning sleeping in and relaxing Kim, Josh, and I decided to go to the movies. We haven't been to the theaters since we've been in Taiwan so we weren't sure what to expect. There was a massive language barrier when purchasing the tickets, which was to be expected, but Google translate came through to save the day when our limited Chinese wasn't enough (as it always does).

There weren't any concession stands at the theater, which was a bit surprising for us. Between the three of us we have all experienced viewing movies internationally in different areas of the globe and this was the first instance in which concessions were absent. The reason for this oversight became apparent the moment we sat down in the theater: everyone bought their food before arriving at the theater and just brought it in with them to eat during the film. And when I say food I mean food. People had anything from fried noodles to McDonald's. Apparently it's completely normal, and expected, here to eat your lunch/dinner during the film. So here we were thinking we were just going to buy snacks or something while everyone else had their three course meals ready to go. We won't be making that mistake again. Next time we're bringing a whole hot pot or something.

Speaking of the theater; it was nice. The volume was appropriate for the size of the room. The seats were spacious and plushy. The bathroom was connected to our theater so if anyone needed to use the facilities during the film it wasn't a long trek there and back. It was just really nice. We had coupons that were graciously given to us from our friends at the school so the price of the tickets came out to $6.00 USD. Since we saw Spider-Man: Homecoming the film was in English and it had Mandarin subtitles at the bottom. I'm sure when we see a locally made film it will be in Taiwanese and it will have English subtitles at the bottom. I'll want to do that at some point for sure.

Our pre-movie group picture.