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Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi
Tainan City, Taiwan
Season 8
Episode 805
Mickela explores Tainan City, Taiwan’s oldest city (also known as the birthplace of Taiwan), through food, drumming, and dance. With a long history of foreign occupation including by the Dutch, the Japanese, and the Han Chinese, Tainan City is known for its cultural diversity, its rich history, and its burgeoning food scene driven by young Taiwanese.
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