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Yin & Young Podcast EP 75: Eight Years in Review
May 27, 2025
Yin & Young Podcast EP 75: Eight Years in Review
May 27, 2025
May 27, 2025
Yin & Young Podcast EP 74: Gabriel Toya-Meléndez - Filmmaking, Identity, and Finding Your Tribe
Feb 11, 2025
Yin & Young Podcast EP 74: Gabriel Toya-Meléndez - Filmmaking, Identity, and Finding Your Tribe
Feb 11, 2025
Feb 11, 2025
Yin & Young Podcast EP 73: Paul Hoi #2 - Japan Stories, Skiing, Solo Traveling
Nov 24, 2024
Yin & Young Podcast EP 73: Paul Hoi #2 - Japan Stories, Skiing, Solo Traveling
Nov 24, 2024
Nov 24, 2024
Yin & Young Podcast EP 72 : William Gee Wong - Author of "Sons of Chinatown"
Jun 28, 2024
Yin & Young Podcast EP 72 : William Gee Wong - Author of "Sons of Chinatown"
Jun 28, 2024
Jun 28, 2024
Yin & Young Podcast EP 71  Aileen Cho - Intergenerational Trauma, Marriage, and Healing
Apr 18, 2024
Yin & Young Podcast EP 71 Aileen Cho - Intergenerational Trauma, Marriage, and Healing
Apr 18, 2024
Apr 18, 2024
Yin & Young Podcast EP 70 - Writer Peter Kageyama returns with MIDNIGHT CLIMAX
Feb 21, 2024
Yin & Young Podcast EP 70 - Writer Peter Kageyama returns with MIDNIGHT CLIMAX
Feb 21, 2024
Feb 21, 2024
Yin & Young Podcast EP 69 Daniel Tong - Editor: Finding your place in film and pursuing your passion
Feb 9, 2024
Yin & Young Podcast EP 69 Daniel Tong - Editor: Finding your place in film and pursuing your passion
Feb 9, 2024
Feb 9, 2024
Yin & Young Podcast EP 68 - Married Life, Cooking, Regret and Time
Aug 28, 2023
Yin & Young Podcast EP 68 - Married Life, Cooking, Regret and Time
Aug 28, 2023
Aug 28, 2023
Yin & Young Podcast Episode 67 - Kelly Hebestreit - Art, Identity, and Please Take Off Your Shoes
Apr 29, 2023
Yin & Young Podcast Episode 67 - Kelly Hebestreit - Art, Identity, and Please Take Off Your Shoes
Apr 29, 2023
Apr 29, 2023
Yin & Young Episode 66 - Peter Kageyama - Writer
Feb 2, 2023
Yin & Young Episode 66 - Peter Kageyama - Writer
Feb 2, 2023
Feb 2, 2023

Podcast disclaimer

Yin & Young EP 57 - Young in Quarantine (Taiwan, Feb 2021)

June 01, 2021 in Asian American, Travel

Recorded February 2021 in Taipei, Taiwan, James (aka Young) shares his experience of what it’s like in a quarantine hotel on the last day of his quarantine. The pandemic situation has changed drastically since the time of recording, with Taiwan now reporting an average of 513 COVID-19 cases for the last week of May 2021, a huge shift from the 1 to 2 cases a day in February. Taiwan is now in stage 3 out of 4 COVID alert, with all public gatherings and indoor restaurant seating cancelled.

Life can change so quickly. Though many of the circumstances referenced in the podcast have changed, it still remains a personal snapshot of what life is like at the time and some of the thoughts going through our heads.

Highlights:

  • James goes over the process of traveling to Taiwan during the pandemic: 14 days of quarantine (not including the arrival day), 7 days of “self-management.”

  • James and Dan compare and contrast how Taiwan and the U.S. are handling COVID.

  • How to distract yourself during quarantine: Attack on Titan.

  • What James is looking forward to after quarantine: martial arts, restaurants, dating…

  • James shares some of his habits that keep him sane: gratitude journaling, meditation, working out…

  • Food is way cheaper in Taiwan, but the cost of living and average income is lower too.

  • Quarantine makes you face yourself.

  • Having a dream is a beautiful thing, but if you don’t have one, having simple goals are great too.

LANGUAGE CORNER

  • F.I.R.E. - financial independence, retire early.

  • Mandarin -

    • 隔離 - gélí - quarantine

    • 防疫 - fángyì - epidemic prevention

  • Japanese

    • 取りあえず - toriaezu - for now

    • ワクチン - wakuchin - vaccine

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Credits: This episode was produced by James Y. Shih and Daniel Yin.
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