To the sea: facing the Taiwan Strait

After my interviews with a couple of informants, my friend Zeng drove me to Qijin –a small island outside of the harbor-. Disappointingly, the island is not as lively as when I visited long time ago. Zeng was curious, too: where did people go? The main street of Qijin is so quiet; only a few shops are open, and we drove back and forth and finally found one restaurant. Qijin is a famous tourist spot in Taiwan, and there are two possible reasons which make this island so quiet. First, the day we went there is not a holiday so there weren’t many people, but everywhere in Taiwan is always crowded so that’s not a good reason. It inevitably brings me to the second possibility: the island doesn’t work hard enough to improve itself and can’t attract tourists anymore. I’m still investigating the reasons, but if the assumption is true, it’s kind of sad, but a lot of cities and spots in the world are sharing this kind of experiences. A city is to some extent like a person: only working hard gives us rice to eat!

The tunnel cross the sea to Qijin

The harbor

The Kaohsiung Seaport

Looking at Kaohsiung from Qijin

The seafood we had (from the top):
miso fish soup, fried oysters, sashimi, fish head and squid