I'm in the Ximei Community.

Let's go find what they have.

Today we have the director, Mr. Hu here.

Hi there Director.

Hi, Grace(Bei-an)

Welcome to Ximei Community.

Ximei Community is a very fun place.

Everyone can experience farm life here.

We also have DIY fried black sugar

and caozaiguo.

The Ximei Community neighbors the Shanhua Sugar Refinery.

The community events here

involves local businesses and specialties.

The events are open to people to experience.

As long as you can fill up a tour bus,

feel free to sign up!

The fried black sugar

is a traditional skill of our community.

How we make it here in Ximdi

is one portion of sugar cane syrup,

one portion of light brown sugar,

one portion of sugar cane juice,

and a little bit of edible lime powder

to get rid of impurities.

We have to keep stirring for about 30 minutes

until everything dries out to powder.

Sugar cane syrup is made from

boiling down extracted sugar cane juice.

There is a 90 percent chance of success by our method.

There is still a chance of failure,

especially if you're a novice.

For those more experienced, the chances of success are higher.

There is more than meets the eye

for this seemingly easy job.

You have to control the fire

and also adjust the stirring frequency.

Everything is all up to experience and skill.

Now we're frying the brown sugar,

and we have to wait about 10 minutes more.

After 10 minutes

Wow! So that's how brown sugar is made.

Let me try some!

You can taste the sugar smells good,

it's not too sweet,

but it has the smell of brown sugar.

In the rural countryside, people often add brown sugar to tapioca  

to beat the summer heat and cool themselves off.

It's also a natural healthy food.

It's the special drink in this community,

and it's very good for summer.

I can smell the scent of the sugar cane.

It tastes like brown sugar water.

After trying the delicious brown sugar,

next, come make caozaiguo with me !

We are going to make caozaiguio.

And this grass is Gnaphalium (Jersey cudweed),

and after they're made, they look like this.

Oh? Even the wrapping of the caozaiguo is handmade?

I have put some more back into it!

We've to push a lot to make it,

and it's like playing the clay.

Making this is not easy,

and this lady is more experienced.

Though I'm tired,

it's kind of fun.

It's almost done.

First, we have to put this powder on our hand.

And take this, and then put the fillings on it.

The ingredients are, some pork, and bamboo shoot,

some dried shrimp, and salted radish.

It's kind of difficult.

Wow! The stuffing looks delicious!

It's really interesting when everyone is making caozaiguo together.  

We finished in the blink of an eye.

The finished product still has to be steamed before we can eat it!

Now we are waiting for the water boiling.

and then we're going to steam them.

After 10 minutes,

it will be finished.

After 10 minutes

Now, caozaiguo is finished.

We can try it.

The exterior is very chewy, like mochi.

And the fillings inside,

you can taste the bamboo shoot.

It's very crispy,

and so it's the very good taste of the caozaiguo.

This is our Ximei Community's taiko drum team.  

Oh, they have some special show for us!

If you got the chance to Shanhua,

you can come to see those cute people!

If you want to experience Shanhua's farm life,

you definitely can't pass up visiting Shanhua's Niousyu.

Now we're in Niousyu cattle market in Shanhua.

People used to trade cattle before,

so the name has the Niou, meaning cattle.

It's still popular although the supermarket is spread.

You see a lot of people here.

The biggest difference is now here sells everything but cattle.

So let's go and see what's in here.

Go!

Auntie, can I have a bowl of beef soup?

(Do you want a small bowl?) Yes, a small one please.

Shanhua is famous for its raw beef,

you definitely can't miss it if you come to Niousyu.

In the Niousyu, you can eat the breakfast of Tainan people.

It's the beef soup.

You can taste the sweet of the beef in the soup.

So the soup is very rich.

The beef is tender.

So you can eat the beef with the ginger slice.

There are also different Taiwanese dishes here.

So you can come here to buy what you love.

It sells many kinds of herbs, like rosemary.

You can add it in your dishes.

You can smell the aroma of rosemary.

It also sells some seedlings, like onion.

And you can plant them in your own garden.

You can see the fish is so big!

It's different from other traditional market

that you can find some special cuisine here,

and some clothes, and everything.

This cattle market, Niousyu, only opens Nine days per month,

only when the date's last digits are 2, 5, and 8.

Like January 2nd, 5th, 8th, 12th, 15th, 18th,

and 22nd, 25th, and 28th.

So when you're in Shanhua,

you can come here , Niousyu, for eating and shopping.

And to the community to experience the local life.