Discovery Series Ornament – Taichung

The Starbucks Discovery Series Ornament Taichung highlights a few of the city’s best-known natural, cultural, and recreational features. Taichung developed from a regional settlement into one of Taiwan’s largest urban centers, while still retaining easy access to mountains, wetlands, flower farms, and agricultural areas. Its location in central Taiwan gives the city a particularly varied landscape, stretching from the coast in the west to higher elevations farther inland.

– The large cup of bubble tea is a fitting choice for Taichung, which is widely associated with the drink’s origins. One of the best-known stories traces bubble tea to Chun Shui Tang teahouse in Taichung during the 1980s, where milk tea was combined with chewy tapioca pearls. The drink later spread across Taiwan and eventually became one of the country’s most internationally recognizable foods.

– Cycling is another popular part of life in and around Taichung. The city has numerous bike paths and recreational routes, including coastal routes near Gaomei Wetlands and longer trails connecting scenic areas around the metropolitan region. Taichung’s tourism authorities actively promote cycling as a way to explore both the city and its surrounding countryside.

– The colorful flower fields are likely connected with Taichung’s flower farms, especially places such as the Sea of Flowers in Xinshe and Chung-she Flower Garden. These areas are known for large seasonal displays of tulips, cosmos, sunflowers, and other flowers, creating some of the most colorful countryside scenery around the city. Both are among Taichung’s popular visitor attractions.

– The wind turbines are one of the most recognizable features of the Gaomei Wetlands landscape. Their tall silhouettes stand along the coast and have become closely associated with views of the wetlands, especially at sunset. The official visitor center even highlights the combination of sunsets, wind turbines, and stars as one of the area’s main scenic experiences.

– The fiddler crab is another familiar resident of Gaomei Wetlands. These small crabs live in muddy coastal habitats, where males are easy to recognize by one dramatically enlarged claw. The wetlands’ rich tidal ecosystem supports a wide range of small marine animals, birds, and plants, and fiddler crabs are among the creatures visitors can often observe there.