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產業概況
Chihshan
Kuei Chuan |
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Chihshan(赤山), the northern outskirts of Fengshan City has been
well-known as ”Kuei Chuan”(粿莊) since Japanese
occupation times in the south of Taiwan. ”Kuei Chuan”(粿莊)
means ”the hometown of Kuei”. Kuei is a kind of rice cake. There
is no other place can claim the name. And the real hometown of Kuei
is located on an old village of old Chihshan.
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In ancient times, rumor has it that people, who made Kuei as a
part time job in order to help support their families, account for
more than 35 percent of the people in the village engaged in agriculture.
Therefore, not only do Chihshan Kuei(赤山粿)
contacts with the skills which is about how to make traditional rice
snacks but also a speciality for ancestors to earn a living in hard
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Chihshan Kuei(赤山粿) has a variety of flavors
as well as different kinds of products in every season, such as Mi-Tai-Mu(米苔目),
Liang-Kuei(涼粿),Fen-Tiao(粉條),
Fen-Yuan(粉圓), Liang-Yuan(涼圓).
Besides, as long as you can call the name, every cook can make the
kind of rice snacks according to your own wish. The common ones are
such as Shuan-Tsen Kuei(雙層粿), Hei-Tang Kuei(黑糖粿),
Hung-Yuan(紅圓), Fa Kuei(發粿),
Tsai-Tou Kuei(菜頭粿), Tien Kuei(甜粿),
Tien-Yu Kuei(甜芋粿), Chiu-Tsen Kuei(九層粿),
Yu-Yao Kuei(芋腰粿), Shu-Chu Kuei(鼠麴粿),
Tsau-Tsai Kuei(草仔粿), Pao Tsai Kuei(包仔粿),
Rice Cake(米糕), etc. All of them are local
rice snacks. Most important of all, they all are steamed, not by fried. |
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