China: Mainland Blogger’s ironic review of shabby government buildings in Taiwan · Global Voices
Robert Woo

Blogger Lv Se De Shou Cang recently ran a photo journal titled ‘A look at some of the administrative buildings in Taiwan’, which has also generated interesting comments. (All pictures cited from the blog)
陈水扁家族弊案最近吵得沸沸扬扬，让许多人对侦办扁案的特侦组感到很好奇。事实上，座落于日据时代建筑的特侦组外观非常老旧，墙壁水泥斑驳脱落，看起来甚不起眼，很多民众经过还不知道这就是鼎鼎大名，专门打老虎的特侦组。
The corruption scandal and the conviction of Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-bian have become such a public affair recently. It  provoked great curiosity in the team which investigated this case, the Special Investigative Unit. In fact, the building that houses the SIU is a decrepit structure built during the Japanese occupation. It looks so drab that many passersby simply do not know that this is the home of the famous, tiger-beating SIU.
当看到taiwan行政院的照片…我实在不知该说甚么…
这是台湾的立法院（下图）也就是一般所谓的国会，常常上电视打架的立法院
It is quite obvious that what this blog is really about is not just a photo tour, but a thinly veiled criticism of many of mainland China’s government bodies and public officials’ extravagant work and life-styles. Even though there is not a single word in the blog directly flagging this intent, comments below show that almost everyone quickly understood.
Here is a sample of some of the comments, many of which are masterfully sarcastic.
对岸的公务员们，你们弃暗投明吧，过来给你们大房子住，奥迪车开～～～～
看了台湾的穷酸样，我们很有“成就”感。
我们的镇政府大楼也比他漂亮。
看得我眼泪直流，台湾人民真的生活在水深火热之中，我们一定要解放台湾。
民选政府就是不一样！记得某法国朋友来宁公干路过雨花区政府大楼时，惊诧地问道：这幢像白宫一样的建筑是什么？
Incidentally, the district-level (the second lowest level) government building the last netizen spoke of looks like this: