Must-see shopping in Taiwan Strait Islands

  • Matsu Distillery

    Matsu

    The museum-like showroom of Matsu's distillery sells many variants of its sorghum-based Kaoliang liquor (高粱酒, Gāoliáng jiǔ) and medicinal rice wine (老酒,…

  • Maestro Wu

    Kinmen

    The most famous of Kinmen's knife-makers has an elegant central shop displaying rusty bomb casings as well as selling the knives (NT$560 to NT$15,000)…

  • Joan Ranch

    Kinmen

    Taste before you buy at this elegant shop that specialises in delicious local beef jerky (NT$150 for 180g); the black pepper version is superb.

  • Kinmen Folk Curios

    Kinmen

    Ceramic bric-a-brac, crockery and wind lion statuettes are arrayed around the photogenic courtyard of what initially appears to be a typical traditional…