Few people know of the culinary delights of Changhua County, Taiwan’s smallest county geographically speaking.
However, a new book released earlier this month wants to change that. Covering more than 200 food stands in 26 villages, townships and cities, the book Gourmet Guide to Changhua aims to increase Changhua’s profile.
“Changhua is a county for gourmets,” Changhua County Commissioner Cho Po-yuan (卓伯源) said at a press conference in Taipei.
For instance, half of Taiwan’s eggs and grapes come from Changhua.
Cho said he hoped the new guide book would attract tourists to the county to enjoy some of its most enduring gastronomic delights, including Changhua meatballs, oyster omelets and stewed pork rice.
Furthermore, with the county hosting Taiwan’s National Games in October and the Lantern Festival next year, the commissioner wants the book to be another factor encouraging large crowds to visit. He said Changhua might be small in size, but it is abundant in produce.
The book was commissioned by the Changhua County Government and published by Fish & Fish International Co. It took a team of more than 10 people and half a year of field research to finish.
Many celebrities and dignitaries, including Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌), Namchow Group chairman Alfred Chen (陳飛龍) and gourmet Li Ang (李昂) attended the press conference to show their support.
They called the book a “valuable collection” of Changhua’s culinary culture and one of the most professional guides of its kind in Taiwan.
Former Czech Republic-based Taiwanese researcher Cheng Yu-chin (鄭宇欽) has been sentenced to seven years in prison on espionage-related charges, China’s Ministry of State Security announced yesterday. China said Cheng was a spy for Taiwan who “masqueraded as a professor” and that he was previously an assistant to former Cabinet secretary-general Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰). President-elect William Lai (賴清德) on Wednesday last week announced Cho would be his premier when Lai is inaugurated next month. Today is China’s “National Security Education Day.” The Chinese ministry yesterday released a video online showing arrests over the past 10 years of people alleged to be
THE HAWAII FACTOR: While a 1965 opinion said an attack on Hawaii would not trigger Article 5, the text of the treaty suggests the state is covered, the report says NATO could be drawn into a conflict in the Taiwan Strait if Chinese forces attacked the US mainland or Hawaii, a NATO Defense College report published on Monday says. The report, written by James Lee, an assistant research fellow at Academia Sinica’s Institute of European and American Studies, states that under certain conditions a Taiwan contingency could trigger Article 5 of NATO, under which an attack against any member of the alliance is considered an attack against all members, necessitating a response. Article 6 of the North Atlantic Treaty specifies that an armed attack in the territory of any member in Europe,
LIKE FAMILY: People now treat dogs and cats as family members. They receive the same medical treatments and tests as humans do, a veterinary association official said The number of pet dogs and cats in Taiwan has officially outnumbered the number of human newborns last year, data from the Ministry of Agriculture’s pet registration information system showed. As of last year, Taiwan had 94,544 registered pet dogs and 137,652 pet cats, the data showed. By contrast, 135,571 babies were born last year. Demand for medical care for pet animals has also risen. As of Feb. 29, there were 5,773 veterinarians in Taiwan, 3,993 of whom were for pet animals, statistics from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Agency showed. In 2022, the nation had 3,077 pediatricians. As of last
XINJIANG: Officials are conducting a report into amending an existing law or to enact a special law to prohibit goods using forced labor Taiwan is mulling an amendment prohibiting the importation of goods using forced labor, similar to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) passed by the US Congress in 2021 that imposed limits on goods produced using forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region. A government official who wished to remain anonymous said yesterday that as the US customs law explicitly prohibits the importation of goods made using forced labor, in 2021 it passed the specialized UFLPA to limit the importation of cotton and other goods from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur region. Taiwan does not have the legal basis to prohibit the importation of goods