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Originally Posted by Black Page
Oh yes. Do you know what "Alishan" is?
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"Alishan" is actually a mountain range in the central region of Taiwan. The place is inhabited by the Taiwanese aborigines or the so call mountain tribes.
They are actually the Austronesian people (or brown sugar), with similar language and genetic ties to other Austronesian ethnic groups like the people of Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.
That is the reason why the language of filipino tagalog is closely related to Bahasa and the Javanese language
There is also a belief from past history records that the ancestral homeland of all the Austronesian tribes originates and comes from Taiwan including the Indonesian, Malays and the Filipinos
Since the boss of Formosa is a Taiwanese Chinese therefore he may have chosen that popular tourist attraction "Alishan" in Taiwan to name his KTV..
Tea is also grown in many place in Taiwan. Taiwanese has a strong tea culture because almost all people in Taiwan drink tea everyday.
Tea gives them energy, good health and a feeling of comfort.
Therefore the Formosa boss being a Taiwanese is no exception. He chose to renovate one of its outlet few years ago and named it "Tea Story" serving famous Taiwan bubble tea,etc.
To tell you a secret, the Taiwanese boss of Formosa love massage very much. He has a special room allocated for him when he comes to Batam and will order the king massage girl to massage for him. In Taiwan, there is also a popular massage spa called King's Spa near taipei.
Probably this is the reason why he has named his massage centre at level 4 as "King's massage".
In Taiwan, many tourist prefer to stay in homestay as an alternative to hotel. A very popular homestay AKA Minsu in mandarin, which is called
Vienna Pleasance Cottage in one of the town in central taiwan, provide BREAKFAST and BED for tourists.
Probably this is the reason why he has named his restaurant at level 1 as "Vienna Restaurant".
The island of Taiwan (formerly known as "Formosa") was mainly inhabited by the aborigines until the Dutch settlement during the 17th century, when Han Chinese began immigrating to the island.
Probably this is the reason why he has named his hotel as "Formosa Hotel".
Names of all his business outlets are related to his home country...