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Themed trail · Hualien
縱谷慢食：瑞穗鮮乳到玉里麵
Overview
Head south down the Huatung Valley from Ruisui to Yuli for milk, Yuli noodles, yokan and stinky tofu in a day. The ranch is about 21 km from central Yuli, roughly 30 minutes by car (estimated from OpenStreetMap routing); the valley's shops are far apart, so you will need a rental car or a train-and-taxi plan, and hours are best confirmed locally, ideally with a phone call in the morning.
Opening days and hours change, so check before you set out.
Stop by stop
Dairy farming took off in the Ruisui area in the 1980s, and the ranch (Rareseed Ranch on English maps) switched to dairy cattle in 1985, selling fresh milk, cheese, milk steamed buns and ice cream. Open map data lists hours of 08:00 to 18:00; the ranch is about a 9 minute drive from Ruisui Station.
Lunch in Yuli, about 30 minutes by car from the ranch. Yuli noodles are hand-made yellow oil noodles in broth or dry, commonly with minced pork sauce, pork chop or danzai-style toppings. A 2013 noodle festival promoted 53 shops, while Chinese Wikipedia says the town itself has a dozen or so noodle sellers; none of the sources we found ranks one shop first, so sit down wherever locals are queuing.
Chinese Wikipedia lists Yuli yokan among the town's best-known products. Light Travel's Yuli write-ups of 2019 and 2023 both name Guangshengtang (Zhongshan Road Section 2) as a local shop of sixty to seventy years selling Japanese-style yokan, with a reduced-sugar version too. A second shop, Yu Mei Xuan at 63 Guangfu Road, appears only on open map data. We found no opening hours for either, so check before you go; yokan is sweet, so buy a small bar to try, or take some home.
Stinky tofu on Minquan Street, about 250 meters from the yokan shop. NOWnews and Mirror Media (2025) give hours of about 11:00 to 19:00 or 19:30, so 15:00 is within them. Crisp fried tofu with pickles and sauce makes a good afternoon snack; Mirror Media puts a portion at NT$100, and you take a numbered ticket and queue.
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Keep going
Start with steamed dumplings on Gongzheng Street, move through mochi, wonton and scallion pancake with egg, and finish at Dongdamen Night Market at dusk. We could not find reliable hours for several of the shops, so call ahead or check their pages, and keep a fallback in mind.
10 h 30 min6 stops
Start with breakfast in the Second Market, walk past two old buildings on Zhongshan Road, have a pearl milk tea on Siwei Street after midday, then shaved ice at Yizhong, and end with braised pork rice at Night School. Two legs need a bus or taxi, but every stop is in urban Taichung.
11 h6 stops
Begin at Yizhong Street with stinky tofu, fried chicken bites and Fengren ice in the late afternoon. Ride to Fengjia after dark for sausage in rice sausage and an egg crepe, and finish with a late bowl of braised pork rice on Jingcheng Road. Some stalls close one day a week (the Yizhong stinky tofu stall on Monday and Tuesday, the chicken bites and Fengren ice commonly on Tuesday), so Wednesday to Sunday is the safest; check the day before you go.
6 h6 stops
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