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Do in Keelung (Taipei) · #8 of the port's ten~6.5h with transit — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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Pleat your own soup dumplings, then eat the evidence with pork thick soup and boba — the tastiest classroom in Taiwan, worth the train ride in.
Xiao long bao are soup dumplings: the broth is set into jelly, folded into the filling, and melts as it steams. The pleating is counted, and eighteen folds is the standard a good shop holds to. Making them badly is easy, which is what makes the class worth doing.
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Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
See · ~5h round tripGold-rush lanes stacked on a sea cliff, red lanterns lighting the teahouses at dusk — the town that launched a thousand postcards.
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Eat · ~1.5h, walkableTaiwan’s street-food canon ten minutes from the gangway — crab thick soup, one-bite sausages, the "nutritious sandwich" fried to order.
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See · ~5hThe Queen’s Head and a shoreline of mushroom rocks carved by wind and sea — geology doing sculpture.
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