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Posted in The exquisite locales and a colorful heritage of Taiwan draw in millions of tourists every year. Scenic beauty however, is definitely not the only attraction of the island, and the tourists here delight in the unique shopping experience that Taiwan presents. Taiwan is in fact, a shopper’s paradise and every city in the island has numerous shopping malls and alleys that sell a variety of national and international products. Taipei is especially famous for the host of options it presents to its shoppers.
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Taiwanese are proud of their tea-producing tradition. Just about all visitors to Taiwan will at some time in their stay be offered a small cup of steaming, golden oolong tea. It is fit, then, that Taiwan should be the location of what is reputed to be the world’s largest tea museum–the Pinglin Tea Industry Museum, which opened on January 12, 1997. The museum, located in the green hills of Pinglin in Taipei county, took eight years and US$10 million to complete.
Visitors can enjoy a refreshing cup of tea at the museum’s tea house.
“Pinglin has over a century of experience producing tea,” says Mayor Huang Ming-feng, whose family has planted tea in the area for five generations. Paochung teaan aromatic, sweet-tasting brew is the type of tea most commonly grown around Pinglin. “The quality of our paochung tea has steadily improved,” continues Huang. “It is the most fragrant tea available.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Taiwan is practically a paradise for the shoppers, and every city of the island has fantastic shopping malls that promise to satisfy every taste and requirement. Shinchu in Taiwan houses one of the largest malls in the island. The Windance Shopping Centre in Shinchu is indeed a huge complex that occupies a giant floor area of one hundred and two thousand square feet and ranks close in size to the Living Mall in Taipei. Located in Zhongyang Road, the mall is a complete entertainment arena with its restaurants, cinema hall, theme park and a variety of stores. Read the rest of this entry »
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Oolong tea, this tea specifically is called a Dong Ding Oolong from Taiwan, not a Ding Dong ooling, it’s sometimes mistakenly referred to. This is a very traditional oolong tea and this is actually, so this oolong tea is oxidized at about thirty to forty percent. And then it’s given a heavy baking after over a high temperature for an extended period of time. And that’s how you get a lot of this, sort of this really dark, this dark color that you’ll have.
It comes from both oxidation and the baking process. And again these little kernels when you brew this tea they’ll be much darker then this, but they’ll open up into a full tea leaf so you know when you make this tea you want to use a little bit less. This oolong here was actually a fall harvest and typically the winter and spring harvest are the most sought after oolongs. But with a fall harvest you can actually get a really high grade tea at a little bit lower price. So that’s one reason that you know people will drink some of the fall oolong or summer teas but we will talk about that later. Read the rest of this entry »
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Shihlin Night Market is one of the largest night markets in Taipei City. The market is centered on Yangmin Theater and Tsicheng Temple.
The night market is formed by many prosperous shops on Wenlin Road, Datung Road and Danan Road, etc. Among them, Shihlin Market was built in 1899 and has become a renowned place for great foods. Many people come to Shihlin Night Market to enjoy the delicious snacks, such as large pancake enfolding small pancake, hot pot on stone or Shihlin sausage. Read the rest of this entry »
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