While the autumn wind blows gently. we paid a visit to Taichung's Dakeng. It's the right time to enjoy the subtle feeling in Dakeng's forest and visit its flourish ecology. This year, Taichung City Government hosted the activities of "Golden Autumn, Charming Forest and Dakeng Carnival" on October 27th. It unites Dakeng's unique landscape and leisure delicious food. These three main activities, and they focus on nature, health, humanity, ecology and delicious cuisine.How can we miss Dakeng's natural beautiful landscape, its abundant humanity and ecology? Welcome everyone, to investigate this beautiful and colorful paradise with Little Citrus.

Dakeng Carnival would begin !

Enthusiastic African drum show

 Pop bands' live show

Wow! What a big banquet !

A thousand people's banquets

Lottery game: See who wins the lottery ?

Vote for "The best taste in Dakeng"

  The best taste in Dakeng is Luguang rural delicacy

12 main dishes with 1 snack and 1 fruit

Diet boiled tender chicken

        Stir-fried river shrimps

Firstly, have the South Taiwan's chickens run around the mountains in Dakeng for a week and raise them with corns to remove the over fat and the feeds in the chickens' body. Then, boil the chicken with small fire for 20 minutes and stew it for 20 minutes. Finally, the delicious diet boiled tender chicken will be completed.

The river shrimp is the local special product. They grow up under the rock in the clean river. They are full of ingredients of calcium and hemoglobin, which can nourish people's muscles and bones and enhance the beauty of human faces. It is a delicious dish for health preserving. Shrimps can be steamed, stir-fried, deep-fried or stewed with wine etc.

Memorable bamboo shoots thick soup.

        Jhujhih Township's bamboo rice

This soup is made of Dakeng's fresh bamboo shoots. The soup-stock is made of the stewed local raised wild chicken. This dish also adds black pig's loin, carrots and mushrooms. It is worthwhile to take a bite.

This dish is based on the selected japonica rice and fresh Moso bamboo tubes. The rice is steamed by the condensed technology to integrate with several natural amino acids of the bamboo. While you are eating rice, you  would smell the flavor of bamboo. In addition, each bamboo can make seven bamboo tubes, and each bamboo can only be used once and taken home after using it.

Stewed beef flank with red wine

Healthy chicken soup with Taiwan white pine wine

Firstly, stew beef's chops, beef ribs and vegetables for  one day to make the soup-stock. Then, stew the soup with  the fried imported beef flank. Finally, add vegetables  and spices to combine the taste. The beef flank is softy  chewable and its flavor of beef, vegetables and spices  makes people mouth watery

Taiwan's white pine is full of unsaturated fats, chlorophyll and enzyme. Enzymes have good healthy curative effect on people's metabolism and gastro duodenal diseases. Firstly, fry turkey with the store's unique sauce. Then, stew the turkey with Taiwan white pine wine. This dish is a chicken soup of preserving healthy for the old and the young.

Steamed toothfish with bamboo shoots sauce

        Stewed pig's leg

The farmers make bamboo shoots into sauce in summer when is the productive period, so the sauce is unique. This dish also collocates with South Pole toothfish whose flesh is white and full of gelatin to make the dish taste more delicious. 

This dish is made by a chef and a professor, who experts in preserving healthy. They follow the ancient method to cook this healthy and delicious food. The pig's leg is stewed with fine sauce, so the skin, meat and muscles taste sweet and delicious without greasy. Even the bones are crispy and chewable.

Golden bamboo shoots

        Japanese Abalone with vegetables
               and mushrooms

This dish is made of Dakeng's bamboo shoots, also called "Golden bamboo shoots," which are famous for the best quality in Taiwan. Select fresh bamboo shoots with one meter long and 14 centimeters wide and make  them into bamboo shoot balls. After that, stew them with three pieces of meat in a traditional way, so it tastes delicious without harsh and greasy.

This dish is made of fresh king oyster mushrooms and Japanese miso sauce. The top is juicy potato, stewed with fresh oranges and vanilla for two hours. It tastes sweet but a little sour and it is melt in the mouth. You even smell the flavor of vanilla. The taste is unique. This creative dish is really recommended.

Lugauang rural delicacy--Bamboo rice cake

        Stewed chicken soup with Taiwan fig tree

The food is like fried white radish patty. Replace the fried white radish patty with Dakeng's local food, bamboo shoots, and add sausages and mushrooms etc. Then, steam them carefully. After the chef completes, the strong flavor of bamboo shoots is around. 

Stew the  roots and stems of Taiwan fig tree for 8 hours. Then, add Dakeng's organic wild turkey with Chinese medicine. It can not only nourish human muscles and bones but also enhance the beauty of the human faces. It is Taiwan's viagra!

Dessert--Dong Dong taro balls

        Fruit--Dakeng's organic citrus

Dong Dong taro balls, a famous product in Dakeng, are kneaded by hands. In summer the ice is the main product, so taro balls are matched with red beans, Mesona, pine apples etc. This snack focuses on its degree of chew and taste. In winter, taro balls are matched with the hot soups like Mesona, longan soups, ginger soup etc.

Dakeng's citrus tastes sweet and juicy. It is known far and wide. From November to December each year, the citrus-Pokan is productive, then citrus-Tankan, citrus-Murcott, respectively. Once it is a productive period, visitors would pick fruits by themselves and eat readily to enjoy the taste.

Research Dakeng: Ride bikes freely and Enjoy Picking the Fruit

Time:

Two groups: Saturday, November 11th and on Sunday, November 26th　

Arranger:

Taichung City Government

Gathering place:

Dongshan Road pass by Buku parking lot

Activity's content:

Ride bikes to visit Dakeng freely. At noon, enjoy local foods prepared by the stores and then enjoy picking citruses by oneself in the garden. Then, enjoy the afternoon tea. Finally, go to the Earthquake Park to see the historical record of the earthquake on September 21st (921 earthquake) in 1999.

Activity's procedure:

9:40~10:00

Check in

11:00~11:50

Enjoy picking the fruit

12:00~13:20

Eat lunch in Yimei restaurant

13:40~14:10

Afternoon tea

14:25~15:00

Visit Dakeng's Earthquake Park

15:10~16:00

Go to the cactus garden

16:00

Return home happily

Arrange bikes

Ride bikes to visit Dakeng

Going to enjoy the delicious lunch

Appreciate the beautiful view after lunch

  Enjoy picking citrus

Taste the rich fruit

Come to the afternoon tea's place

 Delicious and exquisite snack

To understand the history of Earthquake Park

The traces of 921 earthquake