A Little Trip with the Yellow Butterflies of Meinong (Part 2): Private Kitchens and Night Stream Treks

Editor's note: The 18th "Meinong Yellow Butterfly Festival" kicked off last weekend with the ''Yellow Butterfly Little Trip'' as a warm-up event. This event has now entered its eighteenth year, and this year the organizers hope that by holding the "Yellow Butterfly Little Trip," the community can grow up, become economically self-reliant, and build its own micro-economy.To read the previous article, please click here.

Where Nature and Cultural Landscape Blend, Participants Are Full of Surprises

The Yellow Butterfly Little Trip set off last week. Led by a group of "experts," the participants feasted on private Hakka dishes at a farm surrounded by butterflies, visited a Hakka traditional compound to experience wild lotus harvesting on site, walked along Zhong Lihe's "Literature Trail," and in the Yellow Butterfly Valley at night felt the mountain-and-field atmosphere surrounded by the calls of fireflies, frogs and flying squirrels. Meinong's deep cultural heritage also fully fermented during the two-day, one-night "slow living" itinerary, giving off a mellow flavor that becomes more fragrant the more you chew on it. The experts pulled out all the stops, leaving the participants dazzled and amazed.

Liao Jinshan, the owner of the Butterfly Farm, not only guided everyone in identifying butterflies and birds, but also used a traditional wood-fired stove to cook a table of private Hakka dishes as the participants' first proper meal in Meinong: "Besides the familiar ban tiao and peanut tofu, this dish, 'papaya feng,' uses the method of the well-known 'cabbage feng,' stewing papaya to bring out its natural enzymes. It not only prevents spoilage, but also allows the nutrients to be fully released. You can't eat this in restaurants outside; it's specially served only to our Little Trip companions!"