we're now here at a furniture tourism factory in Baihe District.

What can we learn from a furniture tourism factory?

Let's go and take a look.

This is Ms. Tseng.

Hi, Ms. Tseng.

Hi Jacqueline. Hi fellow audience!

This is the introduction of our history.

We were first established since 1978.

When you walk into the tourism factory,

the first thing you'll see is lumber.

You'll see various kinds of lumber.

All of the lumber is unprocessed.

It's uncoated.

If you touch it, you can feel the texture of wood.

Here you can also learn about usages of different lumber.

Aside from touching the lumber,

you can also tell different kinds of lumber

by smelling it.

Some woods are special for having no fragrance.

Nowadays, we can barely smell such kind of smell from the wood.

So smelling these two boxes is like walking inside the woods.

Here you can even listen to the song of woods.

We can learn the hardness of the woods by tapping on them.

As you beat different kinds of lumber, you'll hear different sounds.

The sounds are based on the hardness

of each lumber.

The harder the lumber is, the louder and clearer its sound is!

I think this is a very great invention.

In addition to a variety of lumber,

you can also learn about the well-known mortise and tenon joints.

For example, this is an important part of the tenon-and-mortise joint

among the woodcraft.

We call this the tenon-and-mortise joint

when we tend to combine

the concave and the convex parts.

As for this, it is called the finger joint,

as its name,

there is a joint point

where it joins like we are crossing our fingers

After jointing them together,

I just realized that the table in my house

also has the same joint.

One of the most special thing about the factory

is to make woodcrafts hands-on here.

If you think that making a chair is very difficult,

you'll find that it's actually quite easy.

The woodcraft workshop here has prepared kits for you!

Today, I'm going to make my own cypress chopsticks.

It's quite easy.

Just put the lumber into the tooling,

and shave off the extra parts step by step

with a wood planer,

and we're done.

I can smell the fragrant smell of cypress right from here.

After the first step of shaving off extra parts,

now we're proceeding to the second step: shaping.

Put the shaved lumber into the tooling,

and you can cut the lumber into a prototype of chopsticks.

And of course we have to keep shaving off

some more parts of the wood.

We should shave the four angles,

so that it becomes

an octagon.

After you shave off the four edges of the wood stick,

it becomes an octagon here.

Now, we have to repeat the last step

for four times.

Isn't this tooling amazing?

All I have done is simply shaving off the wood,

and as we proceed to the fourth step,

the sawdust produced has decreased,

and the surface of the wood stick has become more delicate.

Do you see the differences between this one and this one?

That's right, this is after,

and this is before.

After we've been scrubbing the whole time,

I have made my own chopsticks.

But this is only one chopstick.

We need two chopsticks to make a pair,

so I have to finishing making the other one.

This is a furniture tourism factory,

and here, you can bring both adults and children with you

to enjoy and play a lot of different kinds of things,

and to learn more about woods.

These are self-made chopsticks,

and I will bring them home as my souvenir.

While this is a furniture tourism factory,

meals are available here

for tourists' convenience.

You can try out the special lotus dishes of Baihe.

This is shrimp floss made of lotus seed and lettuce.

It contains shrimp and yambean.

So this is a dish with lotus seed,

but it also has shrimp.

So it tastes a little different

from the one we were eating previously.

This bite is mixed with three different tastes.

The first one is a crispy fried snack.

The second one is the seafood taste that came from the shrimp.

And the third one is the lotus seed.

It tastes really soft,

but it's also very delicious mixed

with other two different kinds of things.

As for the lotus root cold salad,

we choose to use the green tea palm

from Chia-Yi Palm Mountain.

This is a dish made of lotus root,

It is mixed with green tea plum.

And so it is kind of like an appetizer.

And it is a little bit sweet and sour both at the same time.

This lotus seed mushroom chicken soup

contains dried mushroom from Tainan Guanziling

and free-range chicken.

There are also lotus seed and wolfberries,

making the soup tastes better.

This soup is kind of sweet.

The sweetness is from the lotus seed and the chicken,

it is very special.

This is lotus tea.

And so the lotus flavor is not very strong in the tea.

But it has a kind of light lotus fragrance.

And I think it is very suitable for such a hot day in summer.

The lotus dishes are made of local ingredients.

Here you can not only enjoy the scenery of lotuses,

but also have a taste of them.

Normally, if you want to taste such a variety of dishes

made from lotus seed.

It might cost you three thousand dollars or more,

but here, you can taste a single set, only for yourself.

This is a wonderful trip.

We've done some hands-on woodcrafts

and tried some delicious local dishes.

When you come to Baihe, don't forget to put it on your schedule!