Huashan 1914 Creative Park

This guide to Huashan 1914 Creative Park in Taipei opens with a theater troupe breaking into a condemned sake distillery in 1997 to stage an illegal play. It traces the building back to 1914, when it brewed a rice wine nicknamed Moth Orchid Sake, through its absorption into a state monopoly and its abandonment in 1987 once pollution complaints pushed the operation to the suburbs. Listen for the old smokestack still marking the skyline above the brick warehouses.