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Hualien City
Amis Mochi takes its name from the Amis indigenous community centered on Hualien and packages its chewy rice cakes as a souvenir line sold through its own shopfront and website. The catalog sticks to the peanut, sesame, and red bean fillings that define Hualien-style mochi rather than novelty variations.
Best for Amis-named mochi souvenir sets
Hualien City
Houshan Metalwork Studio runs hands-on silver jewelry-making sessions in Hualien, letting visitors hammer and shape their own ring, pendant, or earrings in a single sitting. Hualien County's cultural affairs bureau has featured the studio's work for connecting the region's Taiwan-jade craft tradition to contemporary jewelry design.
Best for Hands-on silver jewelry-making workshop
Hualien City
Named for founder Zeng Shui-gang, this Hualien mochi maker traces its hand-pounded recipe to 1948 and belongs to the city’s long Zeng-family mochi tradition. It specializes in freshly made Taiwanese mochi and related sweets, and should remain distinguished from several similarly named Zeng-family shops in Hualien rather than being collapsed into them.
Best for Family-recipe mochi dating to 1948
Hualien City
Huang Chi Stone runs a marble slab-cutting operation supplying raw stone and large slabs sourced from Hualien County's quarries. Its renovated factory showroom, covered by Taiwanese design press for a reception wall built from raw green jade-stone rock, opens the cutting plant to visitors rather than keeping it purely industrial.
Best for Hualien marble and stone slabs from a working quarry-side factory
Hualien City
Jhen Tsang combines a jade and gemstone workshop with a retail shop, cutting and setting Hualien's local nephrite and marble into jewelry and carved pieces on site. It represents the small stone-craft shops clustered around Hualien's marble and jade trade rather than a large export operation.
Best for Hualien jade and gemstone jewelry from a working stone shop
Hualien City, near Hualien Railway Station
Founders Zeng Tai-chang and his wife left the motorcycle-repair trade to open this mochi shop near Hualien's train station, building it into a distinct local brand known for bamboo-tube-steamed "御竹糕" alongside standard peanut and sesame mochi. Pieces are sold at a flat per-item price rather than only in bundled gift boxes, a point local food blogs highlight as unusual for the souvenir strip.
Best for Bamboo-tube mochi and classic flavors near the train station
Hualien City
Since1938 sells its "Ruan-Q" (soft and pleasantly chewy) mochi as Hualien gift sets, with the shop's own name marking the year it dates its recipe to. The line keeps to classic peanut and sesame fillings packaged for the gift-box trade centered on the city's train station.
Best for Gift-boxed mochi dated to 1938
Hualien City
Taiwan's National Cultural Memory Bank archives the original storefront of this shop under the record "曾記麻糬創始店" (Tzen Chi Mochi founding store), tying it to the origin of Hualien's mochi trade rather than a later imitator. The shop still sells the traditional peanut, black sesame, and red bean lines that built its name, alongside newer flavors packaged for travelers passing through the city.
Best for Traditional Hualien mochi from the shop tied to the trade's origin
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