A celebration where it isn’t really clear if the guests love or hate the couple getting married.
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Taiwanese festival tries to put itself on the map, or blow itself up trying【Video】
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KK Miller
Dec 10, 2014
Anything worth doing in excess is worth overdoing in excess. Or at least that seems to be the motto for this gathering in Taiwan. An entire street is covered in what looks like red scraps of paper, or if you’re feeling more poetic, flower petals. Turns out it’s neither of those things, and as the following video will show, “Boom Boom Pow!”
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