EP84 New Taipei Jinshan/Wanli | The City That Got Shaved

Episode 84 takes us along the North Coast to Wanli's Yehliu Geopark, where millions of years of erosion have carved the rock into bizarre mushroom-shaped formations including the famous Queen's Head, and onward to Jinshan Old Street where the duck rice stalls draw lines down the block. Over plates of tender Jinshan duck and sweet roasted sweet potatoes from the local fields, we follow one of the funniest chapters in all of Journey to the West: a city called "Dharma-Destroying Kingdom" where the king has vowed to kill ten thousand monks, Sun Wukong uses his powers to shave every single head in the city in one night, and the king wakes up to find himself and his entire court bald — and has to reckon with what he's been doing.
Location: Jinshan District, New Taipei
Food: Jinshan Duck Rice | Jinshan Sweet Potato