Today is Mother's Day. We took a 3-hour train ride to an area called Miaoli for the Tung Flower Blossoms Festival. Tung Flowers are a symbol of Taiwan's Hakka culture. My mom calls the Hakkas the Jews of Asia. She is half Hakka, which means I have Hakka blood also.
In Miaoli, we went searching for our Hakka roots through the food,
the hikes through tung flower forests,
and having tea under tung flower trees after the hike.
As we laid back and sipped our drinks, a few tung blossoms rained down near us and they looked like snow flakes.
