New Taipei City Travel

Wulai is famous for springs and the hill cherry blossoms. As Atayal is the dominant local ethnic group, there are Atayal cultural tokens everywhere in Wulai. Most shops in Wulai Old Street have a strong “indigenous flavor”. Visitors can taste a wide variety of mountain foods in indigenous flavors, such as the charcoal grilled wild boar pork, spring cooked eggs, shell-flower leaf dumplings, rice cooked in bamboo tubes, and dishes made with aromatic litsea. They are rare “Taiwan indigenous specialty foods”. There are also the specialties like the millet wine and millet mochi that are great as souvenirs for friends.

The arts are alive in the mysterious artist Chen Forng-Shean, who has carved numerous miniature Buddha statues and other artifacts, some less than 1 millimeter in size and small enough to fit into the eye of a needle. Over the past 30 years Chen has built a collection of more than 120 pieces.