Tamsui Old Street

This guide to Tamsui Old Street in Taipei starts on a back lane called Chin-li Street around 1965, where a food-stall owner named Yang Zheng-jinwen looked at the day's leftovers and began improvising with fried tofu, noodles and fish paste. It traces how a Japanese ingredient, a Taiwanese street food and a dumpling-sealing technique came together on one narrow street, then follows the old street itself back to its nineteenth-century days as a treaty port shipping tea and camphor. Listen for it as you walk the lanes back from the river toward where that stall once stood.