天母合眾國

天母給妳的感覺是什麼？
我是一個路癡，在哪裡都會迷路。但是天母是我唯一一個不會迷路的地方。如果你和我約在天母，我總是可以想到幾條可以到的路。但在其他地方就不一定了。還有，如果要到東區，我就覺得有點不安，一個是每個人看起來都很忙，而且好像需要精心打扮，有一種逼著你要和別人比較的感覺，變成是一種負擔。不像在天母，可以很輕鬆、悠閒。

What do you feel about Tianmu?
I have no sense of directions, get lost anywhere I go.  However, Tianmu is the only exception.  If we are going to meet in Tianmu, I can always come out with certain streets that will eventually lead me to the place, but that is not applicable in other areas.  I am quite uncomfortable in the downtown eastern district.  In that area, everybody seems busy, and one needs to dress up sophisticatedly.  I feel that people are forced to be compared with others, and it turns out to be a burden.  Unlike in Tianmu, we can be really relaxed and casual.

繞過大半個世界（註：安古當過7年空服員），又回到天母，覺得天母有什麼改變？
我覺得天母變的不多，當然天母一直都有很多店開開關關，但是還是有很多老店「屹立不搖」，有些是我從小時候就在吃的餐廳，例如茉莉漢堡，只要去那裡，老伯伯就會和我聊天，當然很多新開的店家也很客氣，但是你就感覺是做生意的客氣，和老店那種關係不同。

Do you sense any changes in Tianmu after traveling around most of the world (note: An-Gu was a flying attendant for seven years)?
I don’t see many changes here.  Of course many restaurants have come and gone over the years, but there are still a lot old ones standing tall and firm.  Some of them were there when I was a kid and I used to eat in those restaurants, such as Mary’s Hamburger（茉莉漢堡）.  I called its owner uncle and he chats with me whenever I am in his place.   Surely many new restaurants are courteous, but you can feel that it is strictly business, very different from those old restaurants.

你的店吸引了很多愛狗的人，你為什麼會開在天母？對於你的店有什麼想法？
這都是機緣，我想到要開一個小店，就有朋友告知，芝山岩這裡還不是真正的天母，但是道路很寬，河川公園的活動空間又大，一看就喜歡了。

我希望我的店是一個「故事的空間」，我先是養了「多多」（一隻拉不拉多），後來又為牠養了「牛牛」和「妹妹」（都是金毛獵犬），溜狗時認識了很多朋友，也讓我後來決定要開「狗狗多多的家」。我又在這裡結識我的先生、有了很好的合夥人，我在這段時間內結婚、生女，可以說，這個店是充滿故事的空間。當然許多客人也在這裡有了他們自己的故事，我希望我經營的店，可以一直維持這種感覺。

Your restaurant has obviously attracted many dog-lovers.  Why did you choose Tianme for this restaurant?  What do you think about your own restaurant?
It is purely chances.  I wanted to open a small shop and my friends told me about this place.  Actually, Jhihshanyan is not real Tianmu, but roads are wide in this area, and there is a river park with a lot of open spaces. I love it at the first sight.  I wanted my restaurant to be a ‘Space of Stories’.  I had my first dog, ‘Dodo’ (a Labrador retriever), and then went on adopting ‘New-New’ and ‘Mei-Mei’ (both are golden retrievers).  While walking them, I came to know a lot of friends and that made me decide to open this ‘Dodo Cozy Home’.  In addition, I met my husband and my business partner here.  During these years, I got married and had a daughter, so this shop itself is a place full of stories, in a sense.  Needless to say, many guests had, have and will have their stories here.  That is the atmosphere I want to have in my restaurant.      

看長遠一點，你對天母有什麼期望？
我希望天母可以多一些人文氣息，再多一些社區的感覺。像日本東京的自由之丘，他們也是住商都有，他們形成一個有特色的賣家居品、家藝品的集合地，每個店都很小，但是都有自己的特色，很多東西是你在東京別的地方找不到的，因此一直吸引很多人來逛。他們也有很多好餐廳。像七段上面的也趣、Cozy Corner，就是我很喜歡的。我希望有特色的店可以在天母留下來。不然天母的特色就會消失了。

Looking into the future, any expectation for Tianmu?

I really hope that we could have a little more tint of culture and community in Tianmu, like Jiyugaoka, also a residential and commercial area in Tokyo.   Jiyugaoka is a collection of artistic and distinctive shops which sell unique household appliances and artifacts that cannot be found elsewhere in Tokyo.  It attracts a lot of customers, and tourists too.  Tianmu also has many fine artistic shops, such as Aki Gallery (也趣) and Cozy Corner , I like them both very much.  I wish all the stores with characters in Tianmu could sustain, or Tianmu would lost her uniqueness.