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drums beat is a champion motorcycle racer who lives life in the fast lane
mr. however Sharon is been shown the more relaxed chilled out pace of life
here yeah fun Taiwan just keep surprising me every day with new things
to do the artwork that I'm adding so one just really quite beautiful that a
experience as I just didn't even know I was going to have I love it there's
nothing or something that I don't love it's been beautiful this is the
opportunity of a lifetime
if you are a Haiti person - once you have the floods in time both in the
mountains and be close to the sea you should be doing what dreams me and I are
doing right now are we making you jealous I mean the clear blue skies
lighting valley rise and the chill up atmosphere we couldn't ask for more as
well
when I first found out that I was going to be riding a motorcycle around Taiwan
I was very happy very excited because it's definitely a way that I like to see
be me anywhere because on a motorcycle you just have such a bit of fishing you
can look around here you're it more part of the environment and I feel definitely
comfortable on a motorcycle and have more fun
as you can see this place is like rice fields yes
and like Scarecrow and all the artworks yes so actually this is an area where
the it's another tribe they're called the cover line tribe oh yeah and they
migrate it over here and they like have reminiscent of home you know that's why
they started plantation all the rice fields are brought by them okay yeah so
they set up a new home here Lucas and this water buffalo it's essential for
our culture because they helped us grow like egg without agriculture yeah okay
so some people don't eat beef good people
I guess vast places like Corleone do help you clear your mind and concentrate
more when it comes to creating art this place where we're going later uses local
materials and creative works that have profound meanings
so you actually Genet recommended me to come like take you come to the because
they have like so much I work here and they have the spirits of pomian because
they use three materials as you can see obviously stone and wood and the metal
especially copper okay I love it I really loved it there was you know a lot
of focus on the feet in the eyes and I love the the aged look to the copper to
you know it turns this really nice color as it ages but the artwork had such
complexity to it you know and there's all these other they're creatures you
know and some things even reminded me of kangaroos I mean there was all sorts of
things that you could see in this artwork different people will see
different things but everyone will get something out of that oh so this is the
artists oh great so do you want to meet the artist oh yeah that'd be great
come on up it's over yeah yeah I like that woman Paola I talk I know you say
oh man come on since I only Sonya mr. Hall talking song the hook half a dog oh
so like the master he passed away uh-huh but unfortunately but Christian
Buddha don't he go ahead to follow chalice yeah you know when she said was
you that highlights - I know she she had artwork oh yeah know that nice I'm going
so vertical dose it oh wow it's spread it out this place you
see all the tools you know and this is rich collection no line a larger tank
Kings on their jaw CSF mahaganesha isn't it none advancing that so yourself okay
so the process of making our art today was first of all a bit of a mystery
we just had all these pieces to start with and I had no idea what it was going
to be and we started by drilling the rock which was straightaway one of the
funnest parts of it where we had a water-cooled drill bit into the rock and
the drill drill down and not all the way through then we take the copper tube we
work out the length that we want we've cut it with a circular saw to finish it
off so that will fit into the rock I guess is the stand and in our our
taxable art piece is a fish you're really cool I guess angelfish shape and
then we also had to make the eyes of the fish which is actually quite a hard
decision to make deciding which direction the fish is
going to look in well I put one direction on my fish at one point and it
it made it look crazy and first thought I don't want a crazy fish I want a cute
fish so I had to work out how to do that and then we use an epoxy - two-part
epoxy to glue the whole thing together and so the whole process really only
took I guess half an hour to an hour and and what starts out it's just some
simple pieces ends up becoming something that really has a personality and looks
like actual art I have done something eerie and what have you done I have done
something a bit more traditional but this is what I wanted I really loved
that it's a very happy fish this is it and
here I love it thank you very much yeah miss you on paper don't open so hard I
came we can have everything like in our daily lives get the wood get the stain
it's a very real piece about this is very much part of nature and I love it
it's part of this area right here exactly now cheers to our teacher so I'm
really happy to bring this home to Australia with me because I'll be able
to tell that story you know it's not just gonna be something you see it'll be
a story behind that for anyone who sees it whether they want to hear it or not
I'm nervous and excited because I've never been overseas before I only speak
English so already I'm worried about the language but I tried to learn some
Chinese but it's really hard I know only three or four words it's very hard
what do I want to buy here I want to buy a helmet yes so I can ride a bike here
you know that would be great because I see that everyone drives on the other
side of the road here so that would be fun to ride around and every ride on the
wrong side so that's the first thing I want to buy I mean I've got a hundred
thousand NT dollars you know you Taiwan dollars a hundred thousand so I should
be able to buy the best helmet I think you know the best helmet that Taiwan can
make but that's what I want damn you're good yeah very good thank
you what are you thinking getting a helmet
before you have a motorbike
hi lady arriving I wish all my entrances are like this nice to meet you more
specifically welcome to the east coast of Taiwan very nice it is one of my
favorite parts of Taiwan and for this reason it's beautiful
you know it's actually a little bit like the sunshine coast of Australia you have
the ocean on one side and then you have these beautiful mountains that just come
right into the ocean yes it's nice and I love the dark blue line is just there
like deep water yeah yeah yeah okay so we're excited to have you here in Taiwan
this is your first time ever you leave the country
that's right first time out of Australia Wow difference it is it is and we have a
lot of fun for you sharing it's gonna be taking you around and we thought since
you know you know your way on two wheels we're gonna give you this by pagelets
and also a hundred thousand NT dollars to spend however you wish you're already
getting your foot on the ground well this is you this is real and thank you
so much what about you like don't worry about me
built edit that in later
this is my ride
right
now we're gonna make something that might come in handy for our trip sunny
days you know
okay see this place you can see all the the works are with like leather artworks
oh good look at the patterns because this place is about like Aboriginal
culture oh good and so this is the the same sort of Pacific island people that
went all through the world and the the language you know that the tribe you
have in Australia Aboriginal probably have the same roots yeah you can see the
other cultures of the Pacific Islands around the world in this you know but
it's still completely unique as well some of the the symbols are just things
that I've never seen before it is so unique he says hey look it's all there
yes holman help me out there how it goes all that's all tongue take your tool
turn how do you see you got new yen mm-hmm nah take a detour
oh this is hot I'm Jack has it you one time baby I just won nice to see you
good to me only my parents tickets between the chanson know I got Union s
Virginia Beach audition so my weave tomorrow Italia Josh's new tumbled or
wanton lady huh nice how you want it quiet today it'll mainly - Anton how's
it about what Kate you want you always do you oh wow that facial tattoos in
cult is pretty uncommon any other one that I'm really aware of is the Maori
culture I'm gonna have those sort of circular patterns that they do as well
but to me it's it's kind of shocking to think of facial tattoos but of course
for them it's part of life what the fun part is we get to make something
actually make something what you want to make okay do you want an easy one oh
good I pick an easy way so yeah well we we start off with a piece of natural
untreated liver and it's harder than it looks because it was so hard for me to
be accurate even when I took my time and I was really slow and I am other thing
and wouldn't get quite exactly the way I thought it would
so that there's a lot of work in it but it was a lot of fun you know just eating
things and making art with them with a hammer
it doesn't get better than that so that part was definitely the best for me
alright Grimsby tell your story okay well my story is it's not a very
pictorial story but as you can see it's the story of falling in love with my
girlfriend simple and easy yet and I'm yeah so this is like since you're from
Australia so you know it kind of looks like a koala does it does it absolutely
that's okay well let's do the dyeing okay okay the dyeing is harder so when
you're finished hammering you have to to get choose your color or colors if you
have one and then carefully and that's the hard part they carefully and evenly
rub that into the leather for me it just went on really thick at the start and
then everything quickly yeah winter nothing so I slowly kept building up
layers then when you finally finish between the color on then there's like a
fixer a sealant that goes on top and it's quite good too when you put that
sealant on it goes from looking like this kind of homemade thing you know
this like kind of craft so an actual product that was like magic it was just
rubbing on a magical you know layer of professional hair so I mean mine looked
so much better than I thought it would thank you this is very fashionable now
we are ready to travel with our sunglasses as our gear that's right
let's do it
after a long day it's time for us to treat ourselves to a fine-dining travel
like the local and eat like a local tonight's on me
as you know this is your first official meal dinner here in Taiwan so you're a
vegetarian and a vegan that's right so this is what is special
about it it's that it's all local food Oh which one I want to try I really want
to try this car never seen the corn okay does that say that's a whole new told
Shammi Ananda okay it's it so does it go on that oh yeah you expect
them to be fibrous no it's not it's really easy to chew it bite me
what I'm think obj sorry chance look up I can challenge it then they apparently
messed with my mind being oh then think of a second it's so colourful inside
retreat I said be true you're gonna be rude
good guess mushrooms mood I think something else okay
I think yes but a net but it's really nice it's some Lotus oh this murders
yeah well okay I've had the Lotus chips before and the Lotus trip juice so she
chopped it and it's all like it hi wow this is lettuce truth that is really
good I hear amazing cool I think we should try the soup first
because she doesn't want to tell us what it is
mm-hmm okay so she the way down there
by lowball radish so this is rubbish this is mad I also put a Ming I achieve
had it just nigga your nigga young poor he's always young little bothers you
don't hit today I'm sure with horns I don't know how I downed or the know your
was y'all that y'all do or we all yell for they also should that now is how you
shower your yards yeah yeah this is perfect the the radish soup I that was a
type of radish I guess that I've never tasted you know the radish in Australia
that I eat which I like it tastes completely different I'm enjoying the
meal tonight as I was saying before I thought that I would eat well until I
won but I didn't know it would be this good this is so good it's just this meal
if you need to chair we need to come back here oh we have to come back this
is so good can I become Taiwanese you know in a
week I don't want to leave this food behind I didn't know what to expect from
food in Taiwan you know and there's so much variety here and it's such high
quality you can taste the freshness you know you can taste the the quality
of the cooking it's not just different flavors it's that the food that's gone
into it the raw vegetables and ingredients are so nice and that comes
through in the flavor and the food
looks good and sing back yeah yeah yeah this is the only one and you know
actually like this is quite a high peak as you know we were like yeah yeah yeah
salt very muggy and if we were lucky we'll get to see the Sun sunrise yeah
and there's a Pacific Ocean yeah the fog is there we might not see the ocean
of course like when there's fog you know yeah Sarah hi Neil let me go again to
say what do you expect I have no idea I have no idea
well yes that would be great yes yeah so you know if we're lucky enough tomorrow
will either see the Sun Rise or will just see the ocean yeah okay really have
we get to see the Sun Rise from up here in the mountains but yeah I mean we'll
still see some nice colors yeah you know it'd still be good we gotta see the
ocean yeah
what have you and you do get to enjoy it all that right yeah oh you're yes that
is nice this is my first sunrise in the northern hemisphere that sound sir yeah
and it it feels like that too and just perfect layer of clouds on the horizon
and the Sun lighting the clouds from underneath and slowly changing color
it's just amazing it's something amazing anywhere in the world thousands of
kilometres from home but it still feels a little bit like home as well like a
connection through nature I guess
to make the most of waking up so early I'm taking him to Oh her to experience
our tea culture and maybe have a cuppa Joe this is a shock and drums beat just
fall out Sauron and today we've brought you to this area you know it's open
space and it's a cheese ball obviously yeah can you recognize this chief I
didn't know that that's what I look like it all had no idea I knew no small plans
but I didn't know they were like that
when we first came across the the tea plantation here it was like we just come
to an oasis you know where we're hearing these fairly extreme mountains really
you know like nothing that I've ever seen before
steep rock and then we come around a corner and just instantly it's this
beautiful tea plants with these palm trees you know lined up between quite an
amazing change of scenery and what's special about like what he's
doing is this let's just do it yeah and I didn't know it was it was even
possible to you know stuff anything into a fruit and then keep it that way for
you know for years let alone weeks Wow yeah we had a process of tying a string
around the lemon there to keep people in which was a little bit hard to do but I
guess you just have to be accurate and keep holding the string tight and
following the instructions correctly which is a hard thing for me sometimes
but I managed to deal with that the major mishaps
take a little bit okay so pick it up in two years
yeah now I don't have to wait two years to taste Betty
it's such a small amount of time right things on your table etiquette off
because this plays its famous for them honey Black Sea oh honey black tea so it
tastes like honey to you yeah I can still smell the tea on my hand and I
can't stop smelling it this is addictive this is such a nice smell if it was up
to me I wouldn't wash my hands for a month because this is the nicest smell
this is such a beautiful smell my hands have never smelled this good it's
different kind of chilly in here top you take it to the county about the meteor
haunts I know it's a cat the hearts he just immature it's their goats ooh
yes kind of our issue talking she encounters huggy show him don't hide
your hearts huh the color is so beautiful
so nice just one is with like long T yeah I thought I texted that okay uh
yeah do you like tea I love tea
yeah I think a lot of tea mr. Yong so if it's intention just if I shout to I say
I own my own people it's on your support situations so this one is the honey
black tea honey Blackfeet
I like this even warm they're both great this one's really really good I would
say this one is a is a tender lady yes yes and this one is a Greenfield okay
it's like this it reminds me of that you know it's a rich tea feel I can taste I
can taste the nutrients that came through the soil and came into this plan
this is beautiful tea that's the best tea I've ever had this
is an amazing tea this is much different than the commercial tea I like tea I
drink tea a lot at home good quality teas but they're not like this this was
a very special tea
please enter oh cool and what is cool about this place it's actually there but
take a look around these walls yeah it's great
it looks like the marbles here actually in like it's built into a map so that
they carve a piece of melon yeah it's really nice I love this Friday okay
tomorrow when you have time or maybe at night yeah there is the hot spring you
would get to enjoy oh and actually if you hear closely he will be enjoying the
aboriginal tribes all yeah
I know I know you want to have another hot girl riding coolie and discover
title with you well have a good one so on my free day I woke up in the hot
springs hotel nice just makes me want to live in the mountains and it felt so
good the water was it's not like crystal
clear there's actually a bit of a murky list of the water but it's from all the
minerals that are in and then you can smell the minerals and it just it's not
like the rock just to need to melt like mountain rocks this is a natural rock
water bath I wanted to stay there all day but I couldn't so after the hot
springs on my free day went off to buy some tea this we've had the honey black
tea and I just loved it so much I had to get something and because I was just so
into his tea he had so much knowledge about the tea and the preparation of the
tea there was all these steps and I didn't even understand half of these
tipping hot water from this thing into that being and slowly somehow magical
beautifully colored tea arrived and even the first tea that I tasted was so nice
it's amazing too so I had to have some so I actually bought the best tea that
they had been I think I'll take 115 grams of this and it was expensive but
it was so worth it thank you very much Jesse so for lunch
after the tea I went to a restaurant me now please and the owner of the
restaurant who was such a nice guy he didn't speak any English apart from
pretty much hello and something else that I can't remember nor English so I
had to choose my meal by pretty much pointing to a picture on the wall
I had a few options but I saw this curry and I haven't had a curry yet here in
Taiwan so I ordered to carry really good good and then the funniest thing was he
he brought me at his homemade tofu which was in my meal which was so good I mean
the tofu was the standout part and he needed to tell me that it was spicy
we're typing into translators and he and the translator says hot girl so this
thing is telling me yeah hot girl hot girl in there and I knew what he meant
that there was there was spice in there in the tofu but I was so funny and
brings me little to the name thought
you know have I bought my hot girl tofu I bought my mochi and my black rice
organic black rice and traveling alone in Taiwan in my free day was a little
daunting but nothing went wrong in fact it was a great day had a great time on
my own it really it was great I mean pointing and being friendly you know
it's all I need people are so friendly here in Taiwan there's nothing to worry
about so if anyone's thinking about traveling alone in Taiwan it's it's so
easy to do it's so safe be braver than me basically it's very easy
since on is best known for its rice patties and anything made out of the
rice here is guaranteed to be loved
yeah this is a traditional Hakka house and you see this platform here this is
where they used to like if their grains or rice they need to dry so there was
old we've got gathering here but I'll show you something answer what's waiting
for us I love it I've seen so much I've done so much I feel like I'm really
getting to know Taiwan experience so today we want to introduce to you all
your way here I don't know if you saw it is beautiful right yeah absolutely
couldn't miss him yes this area is very very famous for
some of the best rice you can find she's going to teach us how to make a few rice
dishes we started out with the rice grains which are really nice rice grain
- they're very short very white almost clear and once they wash they get ground
into a flour type of a paste and we put them in hot water and we put the flour
in a big wok a gigantic aluminium wok and this is the process for us to get it
into a mug dough like a doughy like texture thing huh
that's quick yeah it's a happy I would love to have a walk warm either okay
make sure you get all of the base because otherwise that's gonna burn then
that mixture is rinsed again as a whole each processes seems to be followed by a
rinsing or washing episode Johnny our did that send yankin so it's yeah we all
foot though you make a sign all that okay yeah it anything right then she
know and then once that's that's rinsed and and washed they mix it into a
thicker piece with more water okay taking ibuprofen no sometimes a meter
Wow cute oh Allah give me time we'll have me vomits oh yeah Biggio in deity
cover as I have said and it's mixed with sweet potato flour which is very white
and said the whole thing still looks very why it's all very natural it's two
ingredients just rice and in the sweet potato flour and then that mixture when
it's when it's completely mixed properly
your milk to your teacher this is the real process of making the noodle yeah
hold up easy Bobby sit Bobby one time push yeah all the way so smooth dry the
noisiness we need them underneath okay so gonna plop there and then push me all
the way across yes so they need a face to push with your palm yeah but awesome
Christmas to make noodles come people making noodles this is great
yeah very sticky and then the noodles are done then you can eat them straight
away that's like a 30-second noodle try that one it's hot good
obviously the freshest noodle I've ever tasted yes I think it's about 30 seconds
old so yeah still taste the rice in it absolutely that is the fiber it is the
fiber but really cool
I literally ate a rice noodle that was 30 seconds old I mean that they just
doesn't get fresher than that and I've met it myself
that is so good and it's so fresh and it's just the perfect amount of
chewiness it was a word but I forget the word so finally we get to taste the
fruits of your labor the rice noodle if you don't mind I kind of chose a
location you know couldn't be better this is really nice yeah and we're
literally meters from where it was produced yes yes exactly exactly so this
is the meantime ooh and we have different ways of eating initially so
you can have it in the salsa form or into the hot soup or a dessert okay do
you want to try this is sweet sweet please yes so it's sweet and it's on the
cool side what do you think this is so good that the texture of these is disco
Dan it's just the right amount of resistance too chewy so we need to teach
you a phrase that we say here and all the time incident and Q come Julie yeah
the letter Q that and that is exactly the textures happy then I love punk you
so you like it right oh I love it this is so yeah I've had rice noodles
before but they didn't taste anything like the rice noodles we just made you
can actually taste the rice in it they taste like beautiful rice and they taste
like these fields look they taste like just nature that's just a simple and
very natural process we didn't even use electricity and it's great
if you want to immerse yourself into the vastness of this picturesque area get
off your speeding vehicle and hop on a bike I absolutely fell in love with this
this area right here writing advice because it's between two just huge
mountain ranges and it's this near perfectly flat field of rice paddies and
it's so green this is like something that I've only ever seen through a
screen and now I'm here actually in it I'm part of it it's it's amazing but
it's so nice and Taiwan really is such a biking like Mecca oh it's so good I love
something yeah you would love it here that you know you can go mountain biking
obviously in those hills yeah and then also just it's really least this like a
nice leisure activity as well yeah which brings me actually to a little mission
that I have for you fun and one by one I know you're vegetarian and as we can see
there's a lot of nutrients in the soil here and lot of farmers work the for
tilled soil we also have quinoa good excellent it like a superfood now yes
very popular and so my mission for you is I want you to become a quinoa farmer
here oh okay that would be great yeah I look forward to the cookie you know I'm
not sure about the cultivating jaren you're gonna have to taste it let me
know how
the feeling of riding a bicycle as opposed to riding a motorcycle it's very
different even though they're both bikes a bicycle you kind of a part of nature
in a bigger way you can feel the breeze you're going slow you're going slow
enough to enjoy it and another thing is that you don't have to concentrate on
what you're doing you know it's you can just ride along and just soak up the
beauty of it
what we're saying next is what people call Ruby in grains take a guess at what
it is
we're actually riding along the coasts I fell even more in love with this place
for me the perfect blend of nature of mountains and ocean the beautiful
Pacific and it looks very different here than it does in Australia because the
the shelf just drops off I can see the deep dark blue line just off the coast
here in the other thing is I can see the ocean from up so high yet be so close to
it because of these steep mountains there also they are romantic
they are picturesque they're like a postcard the Europeans
as we were riding into the into the village here we can see a fields of
quinoa here and there a plant that I've never seen before you know quinoa to me
was seeds in in packets in Australia I had no idea what the plant looks like
and it's so colorful it looks awesome I
said okay adrims be Tony when the futong I can have you seen one all right if you
want to come here because this is where all the parts are okay quinoa actually
arrives from from the bottom to the top
then when you've got the quinoa back in the village you have to go through a bit
of a process and the first one is to see me to pull of the the biggest leaves off
and then you start stripping the the quinoa itself which is that red then
yellow colorful product off the branches into a container so this is like a very
traditional way of how aboriginals they would like rush it this way using green
oh yeah this looks like the fountain and and you just it's like a gigantic pestle
and mortar and you just crush the the quinoa down and that releases the seeds
from the flowers you can do it with two people and there's a bit of a rhythm
that you have to get which is a bit hard to get it flowing but you know
and when you lift with is actual tama this is such a big difference of what we
are getting it's exactly what I recognize that I
pack itself in Australia the next process is actually to draw it like
sundry but you can't do that now so they prepared something and you see they're
cooking the vegetables any business of all me
just economy if you say ha holy pretty nicely smell of vegetables there I mean
I love once you go milk think y'all they're going through that's it that
this also there's a name for it because yeah it's a yellow there no component
you're Jon Lajoie y'all y'all fine you totally do that's all we thought
yeah we call this yeah we all fun its
collective shaking shaking shaking rice because you have to when you stir you
have to like all the time so now you do the second part that is to dancing in
some kind of way but I'm probably about the world's worst dancer nothing in the
top ten were world's worst dancer since oh I didn't do it I couldn't I don't
even know how to live in that way but I saw the local tribes women doing it and
it looks great
and also we had a singer from the tribe singing this song which was so it was so
good and it really matched the environment it matched what we were
doing there their whole manner just changed all of a sudden they're swaying
with the music and they're pounding the thing in time to the music and you know
I tried to stare in time for the music but again they really get there but yeah
you can see that that that's song that that music style is really part of their
life here and that really unites them so I think looks like you've got some
quinoa leaves in your ball it's creamy it's really good I think the coolest
part in making this is like when we first see it it was like water with rice
separate and the leaves separate and all that now is like in this pool and then
so tight together that's right and it started out looking like it was just a
whole lot of green leaves white rice and now at the end a lot of
rice at least just transformed is just expands it tastes so good
I think the lifestyle they have here is great they they're really in touch with
the land and they they don't have to travel far this is not something they
need to go a long way to produce it's all just right here just in the vicinity
and so they're they're very in tune with nature in a really big way and they live
such a simple lifestyle but it's it's still rich it's not this not it doesn't
seem boring it seems like they're just happy they've always been something to
do there's a lot of work but to them it doesn't look like they're working it
just looks like they're having fun it's brilliant yeah
well we have come to a close into the truth hmm I'm glad we're here looking at
the sea is the best place to finish off I think it's so nice this is the part of
Taiwan I've loved the most this beautiful ocean in these mountains yeah
I'm glad we travel together you asked me to thank you thank you so much you're a
great hosts this graduate so welcome you could say if you want to stay long
I want to stay longer how do we do it I
really don't want to leave you know I I didn't realize how quick the time would
go I mean I've done so much it sounds crazy but the thing that I
would like to leave here for others to experience is is the feeling of of just
how almost magical this place is out how deep the Kaimuki feel and how excited
everyone should visit Taiwan and not just visit everyone should experience
the real Taiwan Taiwan should be on everyone's list of places to go
this is a truly beautiful part of the world but all good things come to an end
there so and even the best things have to come to an end
but this has been the best experience of my life I felt like I've started a new
life it's going to be harder to say goodbye to the people that I've come to
regard as friends in such a short amount of time I love the place but I love the
people even more
does it my last interview
bad enough we should