TaichungTravel Budget Guide

The founding sun-cake house of Taichung, settled on Zihyou Road in 1954 and the starting point of the city's famous "Sun Cake Street" and its signature gift food.

The recognised birthplace of bubble tea, founded in Taichung in 1983, where tapioca pearls were first stirred into iced milk tea and set off a drink craze that swept the world.

Taichung's signature flaky malt-sugar pastry, golden and layered, the city's most famous speciality and gift food.

The national drink recognised as born at Taichung's Chun Shui Tang, pairing traditional tapioca pearls with iced milk tea, chewy and sweet, now beloved worldwide.

A creative snack born at Fengjia Night Market, a split glutinous-rice sausage cradling a Taiwanese pork sausage with garlic and pickled greens, a signature of Taiwan's night markets.

A famed queue-up snack created at Fengjia Night Market by the "Ri Chuan" stall, adapting Japanese takoyaki into a crisp-shelled, generously filled ball that swept across Taiwan.

A summer cooling soup unique to Taichung, made from young jute leaves simmered into a thick jade-green savoury porridge, a homely taste etched in old Taichung memory.

One of Taiwan's largest and most closely watched religious events, a nine-day, eight-night walking pilgrimage led each lunar March by Taichung's Dajia Jenn Lann Temple, registered as an important folk custom asset.

The traditional instrumental ensemble of the Hakka people, led by the suona and percussion, an indispensable music of Hakka rites, weddings and funerals, preserved in the mountain towns of Dongshi and Shigang.

A traditional lacquer craft rooted in the Japanese era and built on the timber of the Dasyueshan and Basianshan forests; Fengyuan was once Taiwan's chief lacquer centre and now carries the craft at the Fengyuan Museum of Lacquer Art.