Families live cheek by jowl. Along the two-meter-wide corridor, there are shoe racks (which Taiwanese people customarily place outside their front door) as well as a mind-boggling array of objects: a discarded plastic tricycle, a bicycle, an old TV set, a refrigerator, an air-conditioner, an archaic typewriter, and a chest of drawers that must have seen better days.
各家雞犬相聞，2 米寬的走道上，除了台灣人經常放在入門口的鞋櫃外，還有林林總總，令人頭皮發麻的物件：廢棄的塑膠三輪車、腳踏車，年邁的電視機、冰箱、冷氣，早已和時代脫節的打字機、看來頗有歷史感的五斗櫃……。