My happy set of stereotypes for Chinese people has been challenged severely this year – but mainly because I have not seen any people ballroom dancing in the street or doing tai-chi (though admitedly I am rarely up early enough to appreciate that).

However, I was delighted to see (though not hear – it was horrible) a pair of dancers in the Jhongshao Fuxing area kicking up their heels. Though perhaps that is rather an overstatement – the male lead looked more like he was delivering the post, such was the energy and passion.

He ain’t Patrick