TSMC Corridor’s Desi Engineers Deserve a Night Out

Hsinchu is where the chips get made. TSMC, the world’s most important semiconductor company, is headquartered here, and the surrounding Hsinchu Science Park is packed with companies that collectively produce the technology the entire planet depends on. Indian engineers are a growing part of that workforce. NTHU (National Tsing Hua University) and NCTU (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) bring in South Asian graduate students who often transition into the local industry.

Garam Masala Dating is the #1 live South Asian dating show and singles mixer from NYC. Real blind dates on stage, two hosts, a live audience, and a mixer. Hsinchu is a company town in the way that Silicon Valley used to be before it became Silicon Valley. Engineers work long hours at the fabs, eat at the campus cafeterias, and go home to apartments in Zhubei. The social scene is almost nonexistent outside of work. For South Asian engineers specifically, the isolation is compounded by language barriers and cultural distance.

The desi community in Hsinchu is small, highly educated, and spectacularly underserved socially. These are people designing the world’s most advanced chips and going home to empty apartments. The gap between professional achievement and personal fulfillment is wide. A dating show that brings this community together, even once, creates more social connections than months of normal life in this city.

Hsinchu is an hour south of Taipei by HSR (high speed rail), which means a show here could draw from both cities. The combined Taipei plus Hsinchu desi population is significant enough to fill a room with interesting, accomplished people. The semiconductor corridor’s unofficial motto should be "brilliant at work, lonely at home." We’re addressing the second part.

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