Living in Taoyuan
Living Area Condition (Living on Campus)
Transportation
Bus 172 & 173：NCU↔Taoyuan HSR Station
Bus 132 & 133：NCU↔Zhongli Train Station
Bus 9025A：NCU↔Taipei SongShan Airport
Food
Shihmen Fish
When Visiting Shihmen Dam, you must try the fish cuisines! Bighead carps, black carps are deep-sea fish, which are fat without many bones or fishy taste. You can try the fish dish in several ways, including sweet and sour, deep-fried, chilly bean sauced, fish soup, and braised!
Hakka Duck and Goose
The authentic Hakka cuisines including Braised duck slices with wine sauce, White Cut Goose, Goose intestines with leek soup. The sweet and juicy texture without much sauce makes every bite surprising!
Pea Flour
The green peasemeal has a special jelly texture and when it’s topped with sesame, peanut, shredded carrot, and cucumber, plus the homemade sauce, the mild spice and refreshing taste make you non-stopping!
Rice noodles
The chewy slippery texture represents the handmade rice delicacy, the soup is braised with porkchop. Half-cooked eggs, sliced pork, and pork livers go very well with the soup.
Peach and Persimmons
Big juicy peaches and crunchy sweet persimmons are the fruit that you must have when visiting Fuxing(Lala Mountain).
Hakka Vegetable Bun
Hakka vegetable bun is made of sticky rice, so the chewy texture is different from regular pork buns. The fillings are shredded radish, stir-fried pork with garlic stems, mushrooms and dried sea shrimps, which mix the fresh sweetness and the tasty saltiness.
Local Features/Attractions
Daxi Old Street
Daxi was the earliest developed area in Taoyuan. The historical building include Daxi Bridge, Lee Teng-Fang Ancient Residence, Wude Temple, Daxi Wood Art Ecomuseum and authentic must-try Taiwanese delicacies, including Daxi dried tofu, moonlight cakes, peanut caramel candies, tofu puddings, salty rice puddings and rice dumplings always attract many tourists to visit to experience the true Taiwanese flavor!
Lala mountain
The Giant Trees in the Lala Mountain range from 500 to 3000 years old. In addition to bringing large and small friends to take a forest bath here, June to August is the best time to taste the juicy peach here.
Sanmin Bat Cave
Since the cave has attracted a large number of bats to make it their home, it's named "bat cave". Hence is also a large natural rock cavern under a spring, so the cave is known as the Shuilian (water curtain) Cave. The special part of the cave is the bottom of the cave is covered with red soil, which is an accumulation of the guano left behind by the bats. It’s a great spot in summer to visit for cooling down in the heat.
Guanyin Grasshopper Dune
During sunset, the wind turbines on the seashore are in line with the blue, red sky in the background which makes the scene so stunning. The grassy dunes have a special landscape of "Coastal Desert", which is the broadest and most complete on the coast of Taiwan.
Chinese Classes Information
National Central University Chinese Language Division
This course is divided into four terms a year, about three months a term. It is devoted to helping students build a solid language foundation and develop higher levels of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills of cultural communication ability. In addition to general language courses, to expand the depth and breadth of students' Chinese learning, elective cultural courses and extra-curricular activities are also included in this course so that students can experience the beauty of Chinese culture in various ways.
Class levels: beginning to advanced(There will be a placement test)
Official website: https://en.mandarin.lc.ncu.edu.tw
Tuition: Daytime group class: NT$29,800 (3 class periods a day)/ NT$26,500 (2 class periods a day)
*Please note that textbooks, instructional materials, and registration fees are not included