OVERSEAS
Hualien
Travel journal from Hualien, with 13 notes on the places I ate, the dishes I cooked and the sights: Pine Garden (松園別館), Dongdamen Night Market and Indigenous Street, Breakfast of purple waxy corn and Taiwanese sweet potato, Taiwanese instant zhajiangmian set.
Journeys: 1 · Notes: 13
Journeys
01
Cook the local flavors once more
Dishes made in borrowed kitchens, and how each one connects to the land.
Hualien, Taiwan
Breakfast of purple waxy corn and Taiwanese sweet potato
In Taiwan, breeders have developed sweet waxy corn that carries both sweet kernels and sticky waxy kernels on a single cob.
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Hualien, Taiwan
Taiwanese instant zhajiangmian set
Wei Lih zhajiangmian is an instant dry noodle launched in Taiwan in 1973 by Wei Lih Food Industrial.
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02
A little of each town’s story
Sights, specialties and how the towns came to be: small cultural notes beside each journey.
Hualien, Taiwan
Pine Garden (松園別館)
A military facility from the Japanese colonial era, built in 1942 on a hill overlooking Hualien Port.
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Hualien, Taiwan
Dongdamen Night Market and Indigenous Street
Hualien City's big night market.
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Hualien, Taiwan
Maqaw (馬告), the mountain pepper
Maqaw is the Atayal word for the mountain pepper native to Taiwan.
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Hualien, Taiwan
Bianshi, the wontons of Hualien
In Hualien you see bianshi (wonton) shops all over town.
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03
Places we stopped along the way
What we ate and bought, with shop details checked against published listings.
Hualien, Taiwan
Bomb Scallion Pancake, the yellow truck on Fuxing Street
A scallion-pancake stand built around a yellow light truck.
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Hualien, Taiwan
Hualien Xiang Wontons (花蓮香扁食)
A shop of the wonton chain that began in Hualien in 1997.
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Hualien, Taiwan
Zhou Jia Steamed Dumplings and Xiaolongbao (周家蒸餃小籠包)
A xiaolongbao and steamed-dumpling shop on Gongzheng Street, with bamboo steamers stacked high out front.
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Hualien, Taiwan
Liming Black Tea (黎明紅茶)
A long-established shop, said to have been in business for more than 30 years and counted among the four great black-tea shops of Hualien.
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Hualien, Taiwan
Wanghai Banai Restaurant (望海巴耐)
A restaurant on a cliff at Yanliao, on Provincial Highway 11, about 20 minutes by car from central Hualien.
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Hualien, Taiwan
Fengchun Ice Shop (豐春冰菓店)
An ice shop founded in 1949, diagonally across from Shoufeng Station.
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Hualien, Taiwan
Anran Xiaohun Stinky Tofu (黯然銷魂臭豆腐)
A stinky tofu shop with a yellow sign by the road in Shoufeng.
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