
Zhuo Ye Cottage
Perhaps you ever heard someone bought a woody mountain for milk. But I bet you never heard someone bought a woody mountain just for an owl. This is our dream home.
We are one of few cottages in Taiwan who gives DIY courses of hand dyed fabrics. Together with the only guesthouse island-wide that features its barn style, you will have an unforgettable in-depth stay.
The restaurant serves menu-free creative cuisines and was elected by Taiwan Websites one of top-10 characteristic landscape restaurants.
The in-house vegetable farm is really healthful and nourishing. Those who desire for healthful and LOHAS life must spend one night with us in Zhuo Ye Cottage.
From farm to table, retrieving the initial moving sentiment of the dishes.
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LIAO PEN HAN

Learn Local Dishes in Rural Village, Recognize the Taste of Taiwan!
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Just Fun
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Cooking Course
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Slow down your pace and walk into the cittaslow – Sanyi, visit Zhuo Ye Cottage and search for the primary natural color.
This is an experience program that integrates environmental education into cuisine: a natural dye plant can be used to dye cloths and make dishes. To learn more about eco-friendly cultivation method, establish the diet concept of local production and marketing, natural processing and green food cooking during the process while listening to guiding interpretation and doing it yourself. The trip which possesses the extreme meaning of education is an eco-tour that allows both adults and children to enjoy fully the culture and environment of the area.



Schedule of the Experience
- 10:00 Check-in : tour itinerary introduction
- 10:10 Visit to natural dye plant garden, collect and explain the process of food dyes and colors
- 11:00 Dye plant modulation and drying, food coloring extraction and powdering
- 11:30 Prepare natural and savory dye plant dishes by yourself
- 13:00 Sample homemade coloring dishes and chef’s menu
- 14:30 Handkerchief blue-dye experience program (size: 60cm*60cm)
#Natural Indigo
Zhuo Ye’s workshop has been diligently stirring during the early establishment of blue dye vat. The fermentation does not take long when the weather is fine and the clear blue foam will rise to the surface of the liquid. To gain the blue foams by using a scoop at this moment and put them into big white porcelain plates and wait for the foams crystalizing into powder after a few days to become the purest natural indigo. Collect natural indigo inside a jar and use it as the food colors when making dishes or Chinese herbal medicine for cooling off and relieving summer heat.

#Curcuma/ Natural Indigo/ beetroot healthy Vermicelli Soup
The homemade natural-dyeing three-colored vermicelli is applied to instruct the visitors the how of making health-preserving mushroom soup by themselves. Native green veggies and blanched vermicelli are incorporated to develop this healthful and nutritious dish.


#Loosestrife Vegetable Roll
Loosestrife and other green veggies with high fiber content are involved in egg liquid and made into green crepe pastry by using frying pan before being mixed with homemade fermented vegetables, yambean, sesame, mushroom floss and wrapped into a vegetable egg roll. It is a fun and colorful natural dish.
#Colorful Jelly Cake Ice
Natural plant dye is applied to make the simple jelly cake unordinary. Ice ingredients and other seasonings are added to develop a bowl of colorful frozen food.

#Natural dyeing accessories, apparel, souvenirs
Within the area of Zhuo Ye Cottage, from planting, colleting, processing, making to blue-dyeing and cloth dyeing works, the most complete presentation is given. Standard and Price: NTD 200-18000/piece
