A trip on Peter's birthday

                                               

                            A trip on Peter's birthday    2019.12.02

今天是佳鴻的生日，我們一起幫他慶生。然後我們就出門去玩了，一路往南走，我們先去旗山吃臭豆腐，聽說旗山最有名的是香蕉，但我們卻來這裡吃臭豆腐。不過臭豆腐真的很臭，但也很好吃。接著我們來到美濃的原鄉緣逛逛，這裡有美濃有名的油紙傘，很漂亮，跟一般的傘有很大的不同。然後我們就結束了快樂的一天。

     Today is Perter's birthday. We celebrated together. His parents took us to Cishan, which is famous for its bananas. In Cishan, summer is an image of abundance: trees heavy with bananas ripening to sweetness beneath leaves that sway in the gentle breeze, promising the reward of golden richness.

     
     On Cishan's Old Street, the confluence of all things ancient and modern, one can follow a waft of warm banana fragrance through the Baroque-style buildings, and find various banana pastries that make the entire trip worthwhile. We are going to sample a few and show how a fruit, excellent on its own, can be made into something even better. We ate stinky tofu on Cishan old street. Although the stinky tofu has a bad smell, it tastes really delicious. After visiting Cishan, we went to Meinung town in Kaohsiung county.

     Meinong is a small city in southern Taiwan extremely rich in Hakka cultural character and unsophisticated customs, famous for the beauty of its ruins and scenery. We visited Meinung Paper Umbrella Culture Village. We saw different kinds of paper umbrellas. Oil-paper umbrellas were used for daily life (they are really waterproof) and also as wedding gifts amongst the thrifty Hakka. It's a happy day!