Hope Plaza Pingtung Week "A Hundred Flavors of Fruits and Vegetables": Sweet and Sour, Bitter and Salty, Sell Out Hot

Farmers at the Taipei Hope Plaza stalls put on red Christmas hats, and the Christmas atmosphere at the two-day Pingtung Week was strong. The most seasonal and delicious wax apples and honey dates from the production area, especially honey dates, were especially in demand. The first batch of fresh, tender green honey dates of the winter attracted customers to taste them, and after trying them they eagerly took out money to buy. These good winter products from Pingtung attracted people to bring their families to Hope Plaza to stroll and shop.

The Pingtung County Agriculture Department said that wax apple is one of the county's important winter fruits. The wax apple planting area is about 2500 hectares, and its output ranks first in all of Taiwan, China. Honey date is also one of the representative winter fruits, rich in vitamin C and highly nutritious. Wax apples and honey dates are the county's top recommended gift fruits for winter. Through fresh fruit tastings, they share freshly delivered wax apples and honey dates from the production area with the public. At the same time, through on-the-hour DIY experience activities, such as red soil salted duck egg DIY, and on the winter solstice they even cooked sweet, rich red bean tangyuan to share with the public, bringing people closer and promoting Pingtung County's high-quality agricultural specialty products.

Last week gathered a hundred flavors of fruits and vegetables, with sweet and sour, bitter and salty all coming together at Hope Plaza, such as lemons, kumquats, pineapples, bananas, bitter melon, coffee, salted eggs, chicken, pork, fish and other various agricultural, fishery and livestock products. Whether tasting a single agricultural product to feel the purest original flavor, or freely combining various agricultural products into warm winter dishes, the mellow bitterness of white jade bitter melon paired with pineapple jam brewed by pineapple farmers is the best companion for chicken soup, and bananas paired with sweet honey and added to cocoa make an afternoon tea combination. Sign-ups for the afternoon red soil salted egg DIY experience activity were enthusiastic. The public said the experience activity was very novel. As the Lunar New Year approaches, the public is welcome to buy more, and it can also be used as a Lunar New Year gift, supporting local farmers with action.