Taiwan

A Unique Restaurant Featuring Pickled Cabbage and Meat Hot Pot

Taiwan is known for its exquisite and delicious cuisine, and high on the list is hot pot. Not only is hot pot something that many Taiwanese people cannot do without, but it is also part of Taiwanese culture. Wherever you go in Taiwan, big streets and small alleys alike, you can always find a hot ...

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A Hakka Restaurant in Taiwan Featuring Jujube Cuisine

There are many Hakka restaurants offering many tasty dishes in Taiwan, and one of the best is the famous Jujube House Restaurant (棗莊古藝庭園膳坊), a Hakka restaurant that is also known as Zaozhuang (棗莊). Please watch the following video of the Jujube House Restaurant in Taiwan: Located at Gongguan Township (公館鄉) in northern Taiwan’s Maoli County ...

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One of the Most Prominent Lantern Festivals in the World

Lantern festivals are the finale of the Lunar New Year celebrations. The Lantern Festival, also known as the Yuanxiao Festival (元宵節), is one of the three most important Taiwanese traditional festivals. It falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month, and is the very first festival after the Lunar New Year. Therefore, various carnival-like ...

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Unique Lanyang Museum With Triangle-Shaped Buildings

Looking like a cuesta (單面山或半屏山) emerging from the surface of the lake, the Lanyang Museum (蘭陽博物館) is situated along a stretch of Taiwan’s Northern Coastal Highway in Yilan County’s Toucheng Township (頭城鎮). As cuesta are a unique geographical feature of Yilan, the museum was modeled after the shape of the cuesta topography commonly found along ...

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Unique Guesthouses With Their Mysterious Tunnels

In addition to the Shilin Official Residence located in Taipei City, there were about 30 guesthouses scattered across Taiwan exclusively for Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975), late president of the Republic of China (Taiwan), also known as Generalissimo Chiang, to stay during his lifetime. Many of them have since been converted into museums, literature centers, or hotels. Among ...

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Taiwan’s Customs Choir New Year Flash Mob

Taiwan’s Customs Choir, also known as the Guan Sheng Choir (關聲合唱團), performed a flash mob at the lounge of the Customs Building located in downtown Taipei at noontime on January 25, 2018 to mark the Lunar New Year of the Dog. Please watch this video of Taiwan’s Customs Choir’s New Year flash mob: The Guan ...

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Chihshang Township Features Chewy Rice and Juicy Fruit

As a famous signature rice cultivation area, Chihshang Township (池上鄉) is located in Taiwan’s Taitung County (台東縣) in the East Rift Valley (花東縱谷) between the Central Range (中央山脈) and the Coastal Range (海岸山脈). The area features chewy rice. Please watch the following video of Chihshang Township in Taiwan: Alluvial soils with nutrient-rich organisms, coupled with ...

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A Leisure Farm Featuring Kilning Sweet Potatoes

One of the leisure activities that many people may like to do with their family members or friends on holidays in Taiwan is kilning sweet potatoes. Please watch the following video of kilning sweet potatoes at a Hakka leisure farm in Taiwan: In Taiwan, there are many leisure farms where visitors can take part in ...

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The Largest International Auto Show in History

Boasting the largest automobile exhibition in history, the 2018 Taipei International Auto Show is being held at Taiwan’s Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center from December 30, 2017, through January 7, 2018. To accommodate all of the entries, 3,636 exhibit spaces in the Exhibition Center were opened, and all of them were fully occupied. Please watch the ...

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