EP37 Pingtung Liuqiu Township | The Ghost King and the Baby

Episode thirty-seven takes us offshore to Little Liuqiu — Taiwan's only purely coral island, floating in the waters off Pingtung's Donggang. The whole island is just twelve square kilometres, but it holds Vase Rock, the Wuguidong sea caves, and one of the highest sea turtle populations in Taiwan. Over black sugar mochi dessert and the chewy, savoury meat rice cake, we enter Chapter 37 of Journey to the West: a ghostly king appears to Tang Monk in the middle of the night, explains that he was drowned in a well by a demon who took his shape and stole his throne — and Sun Wukong, needing to get a message through, conjures a magical baby out of thin air to carry it.Location: Little LiuqiuFood: Black Sugar Mochi | Meat Rice Cake