Hakka Souvenir

Miaoli offers a wide varietyof classic souvenirs ranging from wood craft,Tung blossom art and Hakka cuisine,all popular and worth collecting!

Tung Blossom Souvenirs

First steam to cook the sweet rice, then mix-in brown sugar and ingredients such as dried longan and taro, this is how you make sweet and moist brown sugar rice cake! If green moxa is added, then the rice cake becomes an auspicious item essential in Hakkanese ancestral worship ritual. Tea rice cake and Hakkanese mochi are also excellent choices.

Triangle Rush Products

Yuanli Township,“Home of Rush”, is famous for its delicate, sophisticated living-art handicrafts made from the aromatic bulrush, such as hats, handbags, mats, seat cushions, and even name card holders.

Hakkanese Rice Food

First steam to cook the sweet rice, then mix-in brown sugar and ingredients such as dried longan and taro, this is how you make sweet and moist brown sugar rice cake! If green moxa is added, then the rice cake becomes an auspicious item essential in Hakkanese ancestral worship ritual. Tea rice cake and Hakkanese mochi are also excellent choices.

Hakkaness Pickled Vegetables

Aside from the tantalizing Hakkanese cuisine, Hakkanese pickled vegetables tend to trigger big appetites too. Choices from garlic chili peppers to young ginger to deep-fried scallions, brown rice bean curds and spicy anchovies, all made by the most natural, time-tested ways.

Strawberry Products

Goodies made using the freshest, in-season, producer-direct strawberries include strawberry wine, strawberry jelly, strawberry biscuits, strawberry vinegar, strawberry puffs and varieties of strawberry confectionaries and ices, are colorful and fun souvenirs strawberry lovers must buy.

Agricultural Products

How can you miss taking home local specialty-farming products such as rice from Yuanli, bamboo shoots from Shitan, pickled mustard and red dates from Gongguan, or grapes and pears from Jhuolan, or iced sweet potatoes from Sihu, all local grown and local produced; the finest nature has to offer.

Woodcarving Products

One is bound to want to take home a piece of intricate, lifelike wood product hand-carved by master carvers when visiting Sanyi, and be amazed by the many shops offering DIY activities. The following two are best known for their wooden ducks and music puppets respectively.

Specialty Pastry

The dainty cute Duqi Cake (belly-button cake) that’s been around for one hundred years is light crusted and has fillings flowing-out naturally during baking. It is sweet tasting but not greasy, and is low in sugar but highly nutritional. This cake along with cultural-rich Edible Wood and Longteng Broken Bridge Cake are the most popular gift items.