Dadaocheng Wharf Plaza

This guide to Dadaocheng Wharf Plaza in Taipei follows Scottish tea merchant John Dodd, who arrived on this muddy pier in 1865 and turned local oolong into Formosa Oolong, sold to buyers in Britain and America. It traces the wharf's rise into one of northern Taiwan's busiest cargo piers, crowded with British, German, Danish and Italian trading houses, and the merchants who lived above their own warehouses. Best heard at sunset, facing the water where the boats once loaded.