And across the road from the Taipei Municipal No. 1 Funeral Parlor, several of the big operators have set up classy-looking offices with glass frontages and polished granite floors, completely transforming what used to be a depressing strip of ramshackle establishments cluttered with funerary paraphernalia.
就在台北市第一殯儀館對面，原本帶著一點陰森老舊氣氛的殯葬大街上，大型業者的進入，馬上起了不小的刺激。明亮的落地窗，高級的進口花崗岩地板，飯店般的門面，迥異於過去狹小混亂，擺滿骨灰罐、壽衣、屍枕的傳統葬儀社。