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People and stories from Taipei's tea houses. Tea house, the Chinese version of bars, is a place people sip tea and chat with complete strangers who eventually become "tea house friends". In the 1950's and 60's, a rich collection of stories of people who fled Mainland China would emerge from the flourishing tea house culture in Taiwan. These stories have become fodder of the acclaimed novelist Zhang Fang's novel, Taibei chaguan (Taipei tea house)