EP45 Kaohsiung City | The Rain Contest

Episode 45 takes us up the dramatic southern cross-island highway — one of Taiwan's most spectacular mountain roads — to Tianchi Lake at over 2,300 metres, where mist drifts across the water like something out of a scroll painting. The Taoyuan area is Bunun indigenous territory, and the mountain farms here grow wild greens and millet that have sustained communities for thousands of years. Over stir-fried mountain vegetables and nutty, earthy millet rice, we return to the Car-Slow Kingdom to watch Sun Wukong run the table on Tiger Strength, Deer Strength, and Ram Strength — controlling the rain from above with his divine contacts, then winning the meditation contest in the most undignified way imaginable.Location: Taoyuan District | Liugui District | Tianchi LakeFood: Mountain Vegetables | Millet Rice