A doctor in five minutes

Yesterday afternoon, my partner and I took a day trip to Pingtung County. Via the fastest express train, its largest city, Pingtung City (population 200,000) is only 16 minutes from Kaohsiung Main Station.But we didn’t start in Pingtung City. Instead, we took a local train to Zhutian Township (population 15,000) to stop at an especially good café:Yamato Donburi Shop (大和頓物所) is built into the shell of a former rice mill.Three different glass rooms wrap around an internal courtyard.Here’s the interior of one of them.We had lunch in this one. It was as peaceful as it looks.And the coffee was good!After looking around Zhutian, we caught another train to Pingtung City. But while exploring the city by electric YouBike (Taiwan’s public bike-sharing system), I started to feel sick.Convinced I was getting a cold or flu, I wanted to swing by a pharmacy for meds.But my partner said we should see a doctor instead.In New Zealand, this would make no sense: A friend in Auckland recently waited eight…