Taiwan Food Tour: Visiting Tea Farms in Alishan (Ashley from Travel Man 48 Hours in Hong Kong)
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- While Taiwan might be the less popular destinations for travellers from the west, it's my favourite place to visit in Asia because their food is just AMAZING. The country is also known for its tea production and I visited a few tea farms while I was there!
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I didn't really get to talk a lot about the type of teas grown in Alishan. So here are some quick info:
Alishan (Ali Mountain) is one of Taiwan's most famous tea growing areas that are typically situated between 1000-1500 meters in attitude. It produces high mountain oolong tea, which is known for its slightly sweet fragrance, with floral and fruity notes.
The tea trees shown in the video are trees of milk oolong, which is an oolong tea named after its creaminess (no milk / cream is actually added in the tea production). The milk oolong produced at this tea farm is grown with organic fertilisers made with beans. It's slightly creamy on the nose and surprisingly light and floral, with a hint of creaminess to finish.
If you are to purchase milk oolong from a shop, try to take a good smell of it first. You don't want the ones that are added with artificial fragrance! Anything that smells like milk powder or overly creamy is a sign that the producer has added artificial fragrance for an extra boost of creaminess on the nose.
Tea farm shown in the video is 御統茗園 at Alishan.
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Best way to get to Alishan is by driving.
This is part 1 of my Taiwan trip in 2018. Part 2 will be coming soon!
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Looking forward to part 2!
Vurvain Im working on it! The next video will be 24 hours in Tainan and I'll be eating from 10am til 3am!!!
I was taught by my (China-trained Korean) herbalist that the bitterness of ginseng is a good way to tell whether you have to tell whether you have too much sugar in your system. That is, the more sugar in your body, the more bitter the taste.
Oh wow! I didn't know about that. Thanks for sharing this insight! :)
Wow. Asian food is so different from here. Ever thought of traveling outside Asia and trying/reviewing food?
Rasmus Svensson I actually lived overseas before (UK, Canada and US) but didn't get into filming videos back then. I'll definitely take more travel videos when I'm on vacation outside of Asia in the future. I'm crossing my fingers that I'll go to Europe and Canada this year!
Awesome! Taiwan looks amazing. Sadly, I've only ever seen the airport in Taipei. I'm glad that you picked the sweet potato & bamboo shoot sticky rice cake. I was fixated on that when you scanned the menu. And tree tomatoes? I've never even heard of them before. I've got a mission now. Can't wait to see part 2! :)
Nate Gilbert you should definitely visit Taiwan soon then! The flavours and ingredients of the sticky rice cake are quite familiar to me since Hong Kong and Taiwan share similar cooking style. And I was so obsessed with the tree tomatoes (it probably didn't show how much I loved it in the video since I was being awkward filming in the middle of the street) that I bought a bag back and shared it with people from the hostel!
Awkward? Nah. You did just fine. Everybody looks a bit bewildered in street markets. LOL. I very much want to visit Taiwan at some point. I'd really like to see Taroko National Park. Absolutely stunning. Other than that, I'd have no real plans and would just spend some wandering and discovering. I'm all about serendipity.
Nate Gilbert spring / fall / winter would be a good time to go. It's incredibly hot during summer there. And you have to let me know if you go in the future! :) and being spontaneous while traveling is the best
That's very good to know. I was given the same advice when I visited Thailand and Cambodia. Of course, you have worry about monsoons as well as the heat there. :) I've learned the hard way that it's good to have an outline of things you want to do and see, but to be flexible. I want to experience the places I visit, not just see the big tourist attractions, you know?
My neighbor has two tree tomato plants in his yard.
SO JEALOUS.
Was mochi invented by the Japanese or the Chinese?
It seems to be one of those dishes that has spread across so many cultures that there is no way to tell for certain where it began but most food historians believe it started in China.
Mochi is the Japanese style, tangyuan is the Chinese, chapssal-tteok is the Korean, lo mai chi in Hong Kong and other Cantonese regions, tikoy in the Philippines, kue moci in Indonesia, loh mai chi in Malaysia, and bánh trôi in Vietnam.
All of the areas have an ancient history of trade and interaction with China and each other.
Thanks for the explanation Stannous!
Glutinous rice flour is commonly used in South East Asia, just like Stannous mentioned in his last comment!
I think Da Wei is hotter man than korean boy. Hen Xi Gan De.
zell88 😏I passed on your word to Jia Wei and he was like 😱😱😱