The ten things you must buy when going to Taiwan include pineapple cake, frozen top tea, rice noodles, pearl milk tea, cherry blossom shrimp, Taiwanese facial mask, Japanese cosmeceuticals, books, milk powder, souvenirs from the National Palace Museum in Taipei, etc.

1. As a very popular pineapple cake, how can you not bring some with you when you go to Taiwan? It is mainly made of flour, and then added with ingredients such as eggs, milk powder, sugar, etc., the sweet but not greasy feeling will melt into your mouth instantly.

It fills the entire mouth, and the crispy and soft fragrance is very memorable.

2. Dongding tea is a must-buy when visiting Taiwan. You can see tea in various local markets, large and small. All selections are very convenient. The most recommended ones are the local Wenshan Baozhong tea and Dongding oolong tea.

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Dongding tea, also known as "Frozen Ding Oolong", is the sage of teas in Taiwan. It is produced in Lugu Township, Nantou. Dongding is the name of the mountain and Oolong is the name of the variety.

3. Rice noodles The most famous rice noodles in Taiwan are "Hsinchu rice noodles" and "Fengkeng rice noodles".

Hsinchu has abundant sunshine and strong wind, so the rice noodles produced are very elastic and not easy to become soft after being boiled.

Local villagers in Changhua County have been making rice noodles for generations and have a history of hundreds of years.

Later, many villagers moved to the prosperous Puli, which made Puli rice noodles famous.

The taste of these two kinds of rice noodles is equally good.

4. Pearl milk tea: Bubble tea, also known as Boba milk tea, or bubble milk for short, is a tea drink popular in Taiwan. After adding powder balls to the milk tea, it becomes bubble milk tea.

Pearl milk tea is a type of Taiwanese "bubble black tea" culture. I personally recommend Tainan's local "Brown Sugar Dongzhou Pearl Milk". It's sweet but not greasy. The highlight is that you can see people queuing up every time I go there. It's really delicious.

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5. Sakura shrimp Taiwan’s cherry blossom shrimp comes from the deep sea and is not polluted. It has extremely high nutritional value and is rich in protein and calcium. It is a nutrient for children, a beauty product for women, a supplement for mothers, and a high-calcium food for the elderly. It is also a nutritional supplement for everyone.

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Because the origin of cherry blossom shrimp is extremely limited, it is only available in parts of Taiwan and Japan. In order to allow the cherry blossom shrimp to survive for a long time, the production is very limited.

6. Taiwan Facial Mask Facial mask has always been the first item on tourists’ shopping list when they come to Taiwan. Many tourists buy more than a dozen boxes and come back.

You can buy it at Watsons, ordinary cosmetics stores or at the airport. For example, local brands My Beauty Diary and Morita Cosmetics are famous for their ease of use. They are the oldest and best-selling facial masks in Taiwan, and many of them are popular in mainland China.

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7. Japanese drugstores. There are many Japanese drugstores in Taiwan. In addition to providing popular cosmetics imported from Japan, they also sell medicines, daily necessities, snacks, etc.

We recommend "Japanese Medicine Honpo", which is a drug store from Japan with ten stores in one city in Taipei.

Because it is shipped directly from Japan, it makes people feel like they are in a drug store in Tokyo, where you can buy Kao Steam Eye Mask.

8. Books Eslite Bookstore is one of the must-visit places in Taiwan. The impression it gives people is one word: beautiful.

The layout of the bookstore is unique, and you can find many books with high-quality paper, elegant binding, and very attractive content.

There are also many foreign books that are not available in the mainland.

9. Milk powder. Unlike Hong Kong, where each person is limited to two cans of milk powder, Taiwan has not yet restricted the amount of milk powder that can be taken out of the country, so as long as it can be packed, everyone can buy as much as they want.

The best-selling ones are Nestlé Neng En, Abbott Xinmeili, etc.

Moreover, most milk powder in Taiwan is cheaper than in Hong Kong.

10. Souvenirs from the National Palace Museum in Taipei Among the many souvenirs from the National Palace Museum, there is one thing that has become popular on Weibo and the Internet.

That’s the “I Got It” washi tape.

This piece is designed with the calligraphy of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. It can be used to decorate gift cards. It is very interesting and costs less than NT$100 per roll.

If you can’t buy it at the Forbidden City, they are also sold at the Forbidden City Boutique at Taoyuan Airport in Taipei.