EP72 Miaoli Nanzhuang Township | The Spider Spirits

Episode 72 winds up into the forested hills of Nanzhuang — a Hakka mountain township in southern Miaoli where osmanthus trees line every street and the old wooden shophouses smell of flower tea and sesame. We stay at a treehouse resort built on stilts above a mountain stream, eat Hakka ban tiao — smooth flat rice noodles in a fragrant broth — and osmanthus honey cake. The story: seven spider spirits in Chapter 72 have set up a cave that looks exactly like a house. Tang Monk walks right in. Pigsy tries to rescue him and gets thoroughly distracted by a bathing pool. And the spiders have a power nobody expected: silk from their belly buttons.Location: Nanzhuang Township, MiaoliFood: Hakka Ban Tiao | Osmanthus Cake