Janet Hsieh is a Taiwanese American television show host and model based in Taipei, Taiwan. Janet is the host for the Discovery Travel and Living channel hit program Fun Taiwan. The television program is currently in its 10th season and has expanded to include Fun Asia.

Hsieh's travel tours include visiting exotic places and adventures that incorporate a combination of local tour guide and personal discovery. As a tour host, she is always smiling with a down-to-earth style, highly driven to try any new challenge or obstacle.

Personal

Janet is an American Born Taiwanese (ABT), born and raised in Houston, Texas, whose father is from Kao Hsiung and mother is from Taipei. Janet graduated with a double major in Biology and Spanish from Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

 and has also studied at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, in Argentina and briefly at UCLA and UCSB, in California. She is an avid violinist since the age of 5 and performed with the Texas Young Virtuoso all over US and Europe at a young age, including a performance at the White House

White House

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...

 for George H.W. Bush. Janet also holds a black belt in Taekwondo, and is a trained sushi

Sushi

is a Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegared rice combined with other ingredients . Neta and forms of sushi presentation vary, but the ingredient which all sushi have in common is shari...

 chef and circus performer. She speaks five languages (English, Mandarin, Spanish, French, Taiwanese)..

Professional work

After graduating from college, Janet went to Taiwan for a medical residential internship. She also pursued modeling on the side. Her combination of beauty, talent and great personality caught the Taiwanese media's attention. This led to her audition for a new Discovery Living and Travel TV show as the host of a new travel tour program exploring the Formosa

Formosa

Formosa or Ilha Formosa is a Portuguese historical name for Taiwan , literally meaning, "Beautiful Island". The term may also refer to:-Places:* Formosa Strait, another name for the Taiwan Strait...

 island of Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

. Janet published her first book in 2010 titled Traveling with 100 Toothbrushes.
She has been nominated twice for the Taiwanese Golden Bell Awards

Golden Bell Awards

The Golden Bell Awards is an annual Taiwanese television production award, founded in 1965, presented by Government Information Office, Republic of China . It is usually presented in October or November each year. It is the first television production award in Chinese circulation and Taiwan's...

Best Host award.

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