Exploring the Charms of South WanhuaPost date：2025-06-24
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Introduction
Wanhua Station ➡ Wanhua Lin Family Mansion ➡ Budding Crafts Tea/Bootien food/RAKUSAKI Hot Pot/Jiaxiangway ➡ Guangzhou Temple ➡ Youth Park/Machangding Memorial Park
Wanhua Lin Family Mansion
Wanhua Lin Family Mansion was once the mansion of the influential Lin family during the Japanese colonial era. This striking three-story residence features a reinforced concrete structure with an irregular floor plan and three street-facing sides. A rooftop platform provides scenic views, and the building uniquely blends Eastern and Western architectural elements.
Budding Crafts Tea
Slow cultivation leads to refined taste.
── Budding CraftsTea
In the quiet and serene Taiwan mountains, the rich soil produces life in the tea plantation
At 2000 meter elevation, the river streams irrigate and cultivate.
Century old indigenous tea trees absorb the essences of nature and sprouts.
Our steam methods remove unwanted flavor from the tea, leaving only pure-tasting tea behind.
The unique metal oven uses logan coal for the slow roasting.
The tea pot produced from the century old snake kiln concentrates the tea fragrance.
This is the perfect Taiwan tea that needs time to appreciate.
The old tea master Li Chao-Chieh focuses on the cultivation, production, and appreciation of tea.
From a tea shop to a tea mountain,
All the elements come together to produce an all-in-one tea realm.
A living history of Taiwan's tea and a mouthful of sweetness and fragrance.
The fire at Budding Crafts Tea will never go out...
Bootien Peanut Brittle
Back in the 1960s, everyday in the early morning, Chen Yun-cheng, the first-generation owner of Bootien, went to the nearby grocery store on a bicycle to get supplies. He came home at close to noon, then he put the peanut brittles in tubs, tied them up, and stacked them one after another on a pallet truck. He then dragged them to Wanhua Railway Station to send them to other counties. Not many people know that, about fifty years ago, Mengjia was where most peanut brittle productions took place. In its heyday, ten to twenty peanut brittle production companies provided supplies to grocery stores all around Taiwan, and they satisfied the sweet tooth of adults and children.
The shops of the old Mengjia at the time would heat up stoves with wood shavings in early mornings to boil sugar. More wood shavings needed to be added into the stoves after noon, and to control the intensity of the fire, a person would need to step on them to flatten them. Chen Chin-tsun (Father Chen), the second-generation owner of Bootien, recalls the days of stoves back in his teenage years: "The residual heat would still be high when new wood shavings were being added. Every time I stepped on it, I couldn't help but do an indigenous dance. I had to tolerate it even though it was very hot. I couldn't slack off. Making the wood shavings dense by stepping on them could maintain the heat, which would allow the sugar to boil thoroughly and be even more fragrant". Maybe this is what "keeping your feet on the ground" means!
Rakusaki Hotpot Wanhua
Rakusaki Hotpot Wanhua is a local favorite offering 18 soup base choices, including lobster, seafood, and oversized meat platters. Highly recommended side dishes include traditional braised pork rice, popcorn chicken, and red bean soup. With an all-you-can-eat self-service bar, the restaurant is both family- and pet-friendly, offering multilingual menus. Booking in advance is advised to skip the line.
Jiaxiangway
Jiaxiangway, now in the hands of the third generation owner, is located in Wanhua Dist., Taipei City. Over the last half century, the humble roadside snack stall next to the local religious center--Guangzhao Temple--has evolved into a brand new storefront blending in design cues of a classy Japanese dining establishment. Jiaxiangway insists on using the freshest ingredients to prepare its signature dishes including braised pork rice, braised Chinese cabbage, and deep-fried tofu. The warm hospitality makes guests feel at home. Jiaxiangway received top honors at the 2017 and 2018 Taiwan Braised Pork on Rice Festival, and it has also highly praised by patrons. Jiaxiangway - The taste of home.
Guangzhou Temple
Established during the reign of Emperor Kang Xi of the Qing Dynasty, the Kalah Faith Center in southern Wanhua enshrines the god of medicine. Its major annual celebration event is held respectively on March 12th and September 1st (the birthday of the god of medicine) according to Chinese lunar calendar.
Youth Park
The Youth Park is spacious and has a large variety of facilities, providing the public with recreational, sports, social educational and rehabilitation facilities, enjoyed by young and old, the disabled and healthy people. To maintain the beauty of a park, besides cherishing its beautiful landscape, it requires the support and care of the public when enjoying the fruits of the construction work of the City Government.
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Machangding Memorial Park
The long stairway by the riverbank is a good place to watch the sunrise. With its wide horizon, one can see the beautiful reflection of the sun on the surface of the river. On a fine weather day, you will see the morning sun slowly rising from the side of the Taipei 101 skyscraper at a distance, with the morning rays occasionally seeping through the clouds and casting glorious reflections on the Xindian River, forming a river of gold, which is truly mesmerizing.
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Wanhua Lin Family Mansion
Wanhua Lin Family Mansion was once the mansion of the influential Lin family during the Japanese colonial era. This striking three-story residence features a reinforced concrete structure with an irregular floor plan and three street-facing sides. A rooftop platform provides scenic views, and the building uniquely blends Eastern and Western architectural elements.
Budding Crafts Tea
Slow cultivation leads to refined taste.
── Budding CraftsTea
In the quiet and serene Taiwan mountains, the rich soil produces life in the tea plantation
At 2000 meter elevation, the river streams irrigate and cultivate.
Century old indigenous tea trees absorb the essences of nature and sprouts.
Our steam methods remove unwanted flavor from the tea, leaving only pure-tasting tea behind.
The unique metal oven uses logan coal for the slow roasting.
The tea pot produced from the century old snake kiln concentrates the tea fragrance.
This is the perfect Taiwan tea that needs time to appreciate.
The old tea master Li Chao-Chieh focuses on the cultivation, production, and appreciation of tea.
From a tea shop to a tea mountain,
All the elements come together to produce an all-in-one tea realm.
A living history of Taiwan's tea and a mouthful of sweetness and fragrance.
The fire at Budding Crafts Tea will never go out...
Bootien Peanut Brittle
Back in the 1960s, everyday in the early morning, Chen Yun-cheng, the first-generation owner of Bootien, went to the nearby grocery store on a bicycle to get supplies. He came home at close to noon, then he put the peanut brittles in tubs, tied them up, and stacked them one after another on a pallet truck. He then dragged them to Wanhua Railway Station to send them to other counties. Not many people know that, about fifty years ago, Mengjia was where most peanut brittle productions took place. In its heyday, ten to twenty peanut brittle production companies provided supplies to grocery stores all around Taiwan, and they satisfied the sweet tooth of adults and children.
The shops of the old Mengjia at the time would heat up stoves with wood shavings in early mornings to boil sugar. More wood shavings needed to be added into the stoves after noon, and to control the intensity of the fire, a person would need to step on them to flatten them. Chen Chin-tsun (Father Chen), the second-generation owner of Bootien, recalls the days of stoves back in his teenage years: "The residual heat would still be high when new wood shavings were being added. Every time I stepped on it, I couldn't help but do an indigenous dance. I had to tolerate it even though it was very hot. I couldn't slack off. Making the wood shavings dense by stepping on them could maintain the heat, which would allow the sugar to boil thoroughly and be even more fragrant". Maybe this is what "keeping your feet on the ground" means!
Rakusaki Hotpot Wanhua
Rakusaki Hotpot Wanhua is a local favorite offering 18 soup base choices, including lobster, seafood, and oversized meat platters. Highly recommended side dishes include traditional braised pork rice, popcorn chicken, and red bean soup. With an all-you-can-eat self-service bar, the restaurant is both family- and pet-friendly, offering multilingual menus. Booking in advance is advised to skip the line.
Jiaxiangway
Jiaxiangway, now in the hands of the third generation owner, is located in Wanhua Dist., Taipei City. Over the last half century, the humble roadside snack stall next to the local religious center--Guangzhao Temple--has evolved into a brand new storefront blending in design cues of a classy Japanese dining establishment. Jiaxiangway insists on using the freshest ingredients to prepare its signature dishes including braised pork rice, braised Chinese cabbage, and deep-fried tofu. The warm hospitality makes guests feel at home. Jiaxiangway received top honors at the 2017 and 2018 Taiwan Braised Pork on Rice Festival, and it has also highly praised by patrons. Jiaxiangway - The taste of home.
Guangzhou Temple
Established during the reign of Emperor Kang Xi of the Qing Dynasty, the Kalah Faith Center in southern Wanhua enshrines the god of medicine. Its major annual celebration event is held respectively on March 12th and September 1st (the birthday of the god of medicine) according to Chinese lunar calendar.
Youth Park
The Youth Park is spacious and has a large variety of facilities, providing the public with recreational, sports, social educational and rehabilitation facilities, enjoyed by young and old, the disabled and healthy people. To maintain the beauty of a park, besides cherishing its beautiful landscape, it requires the support and care of the public when enjoying the fruits of the construction work of the City Government.
👉 Read More
Machangding Memorial Park
The long stairway by the riverbank is a good place to watch the sunrise. With its wide horizon, one can see the beautiful reflection of the sun on the surface of the river. On a fine weather day, you will see the morning sun slowly rising from the side of the Taipei 101 skyscraper at a distance, with the morning rays occasionally seeping through the clouds and casting glorious reflections on the Xindian River, forming a river of gold, which is truly mesmerizing.
👉 Read More
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