Taitung
One of Taiwan's niche coffee growers, little family-run Kintuka also bakes homemade, stick-shaped coffee biscuits, creates turmeric-yellowed tea and…
Must-see shopping in Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park
Hualien
It's not cheap, but spacious A-Zone presents a handy one-stop opportunity to browse a vast range of regional and Taiwanese products from leatherwork to…
Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park
A wonderfully wacky one-stop souvenir stop for all your minicanoe and owl model needs, with a 'museum' in the house next door.
Hualien
Semiprecious stones, made into anything from tiny brooches to 500kg jade dragons, are sold from this photogenic series of stalls set in a small garden…
Hualien
Da-Ai (meaning 'Big Love') specialises in turning recycled PET plastic bottles into fabrics from which it creates lightweight garments, blankets,…
Taitung
For handmade leather craft and bags fashioned from repurposed sacking, visit this workshop/boutique in a quirky little neighbourhood of graffiti-muralled…
Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park
For 80 years before its 2002 closure, this plant was one of Taiwan's biggest sugar refineries. Today, the main factory building is essentially derelict…
Hualien
This Ji'an workshop is where celebrity sculptor Adic Chun Kuan Wang and his apprentices turn driftwood and other waste timber into unusual furniture,…
Hualien
This modern showroom sells souvenir packs of various dried fish products, most notably katsuo (柴魚; dried bonito) flakes, which are an important condiment…
Taitung
Yang's moreish curls of roasted sweet potato are glazed in very light syrup. They are a locally celebrated mini chain but the shop opposite the post…
Hualien
Stocks an appealing selection of ceramics, hand-sculpted wooden animal figures and distinctive art postcards.
Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park
This community-run operation occupies an offbeat building with canoe-shaped prow set in its own organic vegetable garden. Partly built with nuclear…
Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park
Originally founded in 1939 as a tiny vendor of rice dumplings and sweet potatoes, this store has morphed into a large and appealingly chaotic showcase for…
Hualien
Even if you can't read the books they sell, it's worth peeping in this secondhand bibliophile's paradise to admire the charming old Japanese house that…
