The Lantern Festival brings Taiwan’s Lunar New Year celebrations to a glowing close. This year’s event in Chiayi pairs dazzling lantern displays with Indigenous culture, local heritage, and the scenic beauty of the Alishan region.
Taipei’s zero-proof scene is growing in its own way, driven less by abstinence than by flavor, atmosphere, and the desire to socialize without the hangover. From tea-based cocktails to coffee raves, alcohol-free drinking is becoming a culture of its own.
Taiwan’s sodas are more than sweet refreshment. They reveal a fizzy mix of memory, mistranslation, branding bravado, and everyday habits, where what’s in the bottle is often less predictable than the culture that shaped it.
Taiwan’s Indigenous cuisine is stepping into wider view, as ancestral techniques, foraged ingredients, and preservation methods find new life in restaurants across the island. Rooted in land, season, and ritual, these dishes offer a direct way to understand Indigenous culture through taste.
Taiwan’s fast-food market has become a proving ground where global brands and homegrown chains test new formats, technologies, and flavors that increasingly shape regional and international trends.
On Taiwan’s eastern shore, Taitung’s Pacific landscapes, Indigenous culture, and sustainable tourism create a destination where nature and tradition thrive in harmony.
Across Taiwan, old industrial sites are being transformed into vibrant artist villages that merge heritage with creativity. Places like Kaohsiung’s Kio-A-Thau Sugar Refinery and Pier-2 Art Center now serve as dynamic spaces for art, culture, and community exchange.
Glowball, the genre-bending festival by DJ-producer Sonia Calico, is redefining Taiwan’s electronic music with global beats, queer performance, and distinctly local flair — turning the dancefloor into a bold cultural statement.
Beyond stereotypes and staged performances, there is much more to discover about Taiwan’s Indigenous cultures — through music, food, and art that invite not just admiration, but deeper respect.
Discover how Momofuku Ando, a Taiwanese-born innovator, transformed global cuisine with the invention of instant noodles, blending resilience, ingenuity, and cultural heritage.
