Is the ghost month back in town ?
It’s August 16 - September 14 this year.
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Ohh they’ve been burning for the few days here 
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Been mostly green AQI down here lately, thanks to the wind and rain. I haven’t noticed extra street burning, but have been mostly indoors thanks to the heat and rain!
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Air is pretty good today!
Pretty good everyday where I live 
Well we can’t all live in a satellite 
Everytime I check weather forecast up there it seems to be raining, is that another fake photo like the milky way pic you posted?
Been sunshine most mornings this week until today. No fake photos posted.
Cloudy but no rain atm. Nice mists floating around my place.
Pretty much like this a lot of the time.
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Yup the normal late afternoon summer rains. Mornings are mostly sunny except today and for sure tomorrow from the typhoon sweeping past the north bring rain to most of Taiwan.
Alishan is definitely one of the better tea areas to visit. I went to Lugu recently (for the uninitiated, the home of Dongding tea) and while it’s a really nice little area, the tea fields are a bit out of the way. In Alishan, Shizhuo 石卓 is just the perfect mix of endless tea fields, good accessibility, and nice hiking trails to walk about
Hoping to go up to Hsinchu and visit 峨眉 or 北埔 where a lot of the 東方美人 production happens eventually, although I’ll probably end up visiting 梨山 first because, well, it’s closer and because the trip out there seems a tad more interesting than driving straight up to Hsinchu in awful normal road traffic the whole time. Not to mention it’s kinda on the way to Hualien and the road through Taroko which I’d rather like to drive.
Dongding tea
Never understood the obsession with this tea. Give me an aromatic 金萱 any day.
A good Dongding is pretty wonderfully aromatic, a bit fruity but with that distinctive 烘焙 smell. For me, however, I just love the more oxidized and roasted oolongs and they’re comparatively rare here so it makes Dongding one of the more affordable variety choices. And when it comes to the 輕烏龍s, I’ll almost always take an Alishan or Lishan gaoshan over 金萱. It has a nice smell but I always find the flavor not incredibly interesting across brews – it remains comparatively static, in my opinion.
Also you will now see lots of arabica coffee plantations as well. This grown only a few kilometers away from Shizhuo 石卓
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Indeed, found that quite strange and interesting. Ultimately I’m a tea person, probably haven’t had coffee in well over a year, but cool to see both of em in the same place
YES! 
My training with tea was with how Cantonese like to drink it. And this is where my tastes go—and typically diverge from how Taiwanese like to roast their oolong (way too lightly for me).
Guy
Very interesting. It was clear that Alishan was scaling up coffee production when McDonald’s was serving it.
Guy