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title: Hualien
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# 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

- [Hualien: the sea and delicious everyday life](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/hualien/index.md): A leisurely trip in Hualien, Taiwan（2023-12-24）

## Cook the local flavors once more

- [Breakfast of purple waxy corn and Taiwanese sweet potato](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/breakfast-of-purple-waxy-corn/index.md): In Taiwan, breeders have developed sweet waxy corn that carries both sweet kernels and sticky waxy kernels on a single cob.
- [Taiwanese instant zhajiangmian set](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/taiwanese-instant-zhajiangmian-set/index.md): Wei Lih zhajiangmian is an instant dry noodle launched in Taiwan in 1973 by Wei Lih Food Industrial.

## A little of each town’s story

- [Pine Garden (松園別館)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/pine-garden/index.md): A military facility from the Japanese colonial era, built in 1942 on a hill overlooking Hualien Port.
- [Dongdamen Night Market and Indigenous Street](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/dongdamen-night-market-and-indigenous-street/index.md): Hualien City's big night market.
- [Maqaw (馬告), the mountain pepper](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/maqaw-the-mountain-pepper/index.md): Maqaw is the Atayal word for the mountain pepper native to Taiwan.
- [Bianshi, the wontons of Hualien](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/bianshi-the-wontons-hualien/index.md): In Hualien you see bianshi (wonton) shops all over town.

## Places we stopped along the way

- [Bomb Scallion Pancake, the yellow truck on Fuxing Street](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/bomb-scallion-pancake-the-yellow-truck/index.md): A scallion-pancake stand built around a yellow light truck.
- [Hualien Xiang Wontons (花蓮香扁食)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/hualien-xiang-wontons/index.md): A shop of the wonton chain that began in Hualien in 1997.
- [Zhou Jia Steamed Dumplings and Xiaolongbao (周家蒸餃小籠包)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/zhou-jia-steamed-dumplings-and-xiaolongbao/index.md): A xiaolongbao and steamed-dumpling shop on Gongzheng Street, with bamboo steamers stacked high out front.
- [Liming Black Tea (黎明紅茶)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/liming-black-tea/index.md): 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.
- [Wanghai Banai Restaurant (望海巴耐)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/wanghai-banai-restaurant/index.md): A restaurant on a cliff at Yanliao, on Provincial Highway 11, about 20 minutes by car from central Hualien.
- [Fengchun Ice Shop (豐春冰菓店)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/fengchun-ice-shop/index.md): An ice shop founded in 1949, diagonally across from Shoufeng Station.
- [Anran Xiaohun Stinky Tofu (黯然銷魂臭豆腐)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/anran-xiaohun-stinky-tofu/index.md): A stinky tofu shop with a yellow sign by the road in Shoufeng.