Day 28
I took the metro and got off at the ShiLin station and walked to Kuo Yuan Yi Taiwanese Bakery Museum. They do educational tours on weekdays for schools, only weekend tours are for the public. Well, today is a weekday and one of the staff was nice enough to let me in the room for a tour anyways. I wanted to see the process of pastry making but it was set up more like an exhibition room. The museum was on 5th floor, a man named Chang helped me a special tour and access.
I took the metro and got off at the ShiLin station and walked to Kuo Yuan Yi Taiwanese Bakery Museum. They do educational tours on weekdays for schools, only weekend tours are for the public. Well, today is a weekday and one of the staff was nice enough to let me in the room for a tour anyways. I wanted to see the process of pastry making but it was set up more like an exhibition room. The museum was on 5th floor, a man named Chang helped me a special tour and access.
The museum is a tiny place that displays different pastry for different holidays and life events from birth to passing. I asked Chang about the changes with modern day and how that effects the tradition and business. Marriage announcement pastry was the top selling line and birthdays. He said now there are less people getting married. That people marry late or not at all. People are having less kids too. So their famous wedding pastry has had to cut back in production. 
They were number 1 in the country for distribution of wedding pastry and even so now, the classical wedding pastry are gifts to elders, young professional and co-workers, friend all prefer western cookies and biscuits.
These mold are used for traditional pastry.
These maps show which region invented which pastry and is famous.
