Tainan Dongshan Dragon Fruit Festival Opens Lively as Mayor Huang Wei-che Becomes the Ultimate Salesman to Vigorously Promote Sales

The Dongshan District dragon fruit industry and cultural event in Tainan kicked off lively yesterday (the 2nd) at the square in front of the Dongshan District Office. Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che attended the opening ceremony and vigorously promoted Dongshan dragon fruit, which is sweet, juicy, and rich in nutritional value. Mayor Huang Wei-che joked that eating a lot of dragon fruit will not make you fat, so he can eat it without worry.

Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che stated that Dongshan District has the largest dragon fruit planting area in Tainan City, and most importantly, Tainan has the highest-quality red dragon fruit, with some reaching a sweetness of 15 or 16 degrees Brix or more. In addition to being delicious and tasty, dragon fruit also has quite diverse processing applications. At the site, you can see dragon fruit used to make pizza, bread, and cake, with all kinds of ways to incorporate it into dishes. Whether as fresh fruit or processed products, it is a very good ingredient. Everyone is welcome to come to Dongshan and buy enthusiastically.

In addition to being the opening ceremony of the Dongshan Dragon Fruit Festival, the event was also held together with a model father commendation ceremony. Mayor Huang Wei-che presented medals one by one to the model father award recipients and warmly took photos with them. City councilors Tsai Yu-hui, Shen Chia-feng, and Li Tsung-han were also present to jointly wish fathers everywhere a happy Father's Day.

Xie Yao-ching, director-general of the Tainan City Agriculture Bureau, stated that in order to stimulate consumption, at the "Fiery Love Cultural and Creative Market," the local small farmers and young farmers market selling dragon fruit on site, as well as the cultural and creative handmade market, all welcome the public to use the Triple Stimulus Vouchers. In addition to delicious fresh dragon fruit, the market also displays and sells dried dragon fruit, dragon fruit frozen treats, and dragon fruit special summer drinks, a dazzling array that shows the diverse and wide application of dragon fruit as an ingredient and is also deeply loved by consumers.