Episode seventy takes us all the way up to Wuling Farm and Snow Mountain in Taichung's Heping District — Taiwan's highest-altitude agricultural area, where cherry blossoms bloom in winter and the alpine cirque of Snow Mountain looks like it belongs in a painting. Over ripe Lishan peaches and a bowl of crisp sweet Wuling cabbage, we follow Sun Wukong at his sneakiest: disguised as a fly no bigger than a fingernail, he navigates a cave full of demons, steals the one treasure that could help them, and then uses his full arsenal of tricks to drug a demon king into helplessness.
Location: Wuling Farm
Food: Lishan Peach | Wuling Cabbage

Episode sixty-nine takes us to Lihpao Resort in Houli — Taichung's biggest theme park and outlet complex, where the energy is big and busy and everything is designed for a great day out. Over another perfect sun cake and a freshly baked Dajia taro pastry, we follow the showdown between Sun Wukong and a demon who has been hiding in the palace as a Taoist doctor — and who, it turns out, is the very demon who stole the king's energy in the first place.
Location: Houli District
Food: Sun Cake | Dajia Taro Pastry

Episode sixty-eight takes us to Yizhong Street Night Market — Taichung's student food paradise in the North District, where cheap snacks, bubble tea, and food that's best eaten while walking fill every narrow alley. Over Taichung's legendary bubble shaved ice tea and a flaky sun cake fresh from the oven, we hear Chapter Sixty-Eight: Sun Wukong pulls off the most improbable medical diagnosis in history — feeling a king's pulse through a thread from three rooms away — and cures him with a pill made of ingredients so ridiculous the king almost refuses to take it.
Location: Yizhong Street
Food: Bubble Milk Tea | Sun Cake

Episode sixty-seven lands us at Fengjia Night Market — Taiwan's biggest, busiest, most chaotic night market, right next to Feng Chia University in Taichung's Xitun District. Over a sizzling big-sausage-wrapped-in-small-sausage and a loaded cheese potato, we hear how Sun Wukong dealt with a village-terrorizing python using possibly the most ridiculous strategy in the whole book: he walked straight into its mouth and started doing gymnastics inside its stomach.
Location: Fengjia Night Market
Food: Big Sausage Wrapped in Small Sausage | Cheese Potato

Episode sixty-six rolls down to two small towns in Nantou that share a quiet, enduring steadiness — Jiji, where a century-old wooden railway station still stands after being painstakingly rebuilt from earthquake rubble, and Zhushan, home to the Zitong Temple (Purple South Temple), one of the most-visited wealth temples in Taiwan. Over braised dried bamboo shoots that deepen with every simmer and bamboo tube ice cream eaten in the shade, we follow the pilgrim team into their most embarrassing situation yet: every single god sent to rescue them gets poisoned and knocked out. The only one who can fix it? A jolly round Buddha disguised as a melon seller, with a magic belly that swallows demons whole.
Location: Jiji Township | Zhushan Township
Food: Dried Bamboo Shoot | Bamboo Tube Ice Cream

Episode 65 rises to the highest reaches of the Taiwan road trip — Cingjing Farm, where sheep graze on green hillsides that look like New Zealand, and Hehuanshan's Wuling Pass at 3,275 metres, the highest point reachable by paved road in Taiwan. Over a Cingjing cloud bento packed with mountain-grown vegetables and braised meats, and a plate of stir-fried alpine cabbage so sweet it tastes like dessert, we arrive at one of the most humbling chapters in the entire story: for the first time, all four pilgrims — Sun Wukong included — are completely, helplessly trapped.
Location: Cingjing Farm
Food: Cingjing Cloud Bento | Alpine Vegetables

Episode 64 takes us into one of Taiwan's most distinctive landscapes — the Xitou Nature Education Area in Nantou's Lugu Township, where towering Moso bamboo grows twenty metres tall and the wind through the canopy sounds like a thousand people whispering. We eat bamboo tube rice with its gentle bamboo fragrance baked right into the sticky rice, and stir-fried mountain celery — crisp, slightly bitter, with a clean wild flavour. We watch Pigsy earn the title of unsung hero of the journey — eight hundred li of thorns cleared with his nine-toothed rake. And then Tang Monk, alone in a forest temple, finds himself discussing classical poetry with some very beautiful and very suspicious tree spirits.
Location: Xitou Nature Education Area
Food: Bamboo Tube Rice | Mountain Celery

Episode 63 brings us to Sun Moon Lake in Nantou's Yuchi Township — Taiwan's largest alpine lake at over 700 metres elevation, where the northern half is round like a sun and the southern half curves like a crescent moon. In the morning mist the water becomes a mirror and you feel like you are standing inside a painting. We crack open a Shao tribe grandma's tea egg — the shell veined with dark lines where Sun Moon Lake Assam black tea and spices have seeped in — and sip a cup of the famous Ruby No. 18 red tea with its natural mint and cinnamon notes. Meanwhile, the mystery from last episode deepens: the real culprit behind the pagoda theft is a nine-headed demon under a different lake, and Sun Wukong's most creative (and smallest) transformation yet — a crab — might be the only way to win.
Location: Sun Moon Lake
Food: Grandma's Tea Egg | Sun Moon Lake Black Tea

Episode 62 arrives at Sun Moon Lake — Taiwan's most famous mountain lake, home of the Thao indigenous people, and the source of one of Taiwan's most celebrated teas. Between a cable car ride to Nine Tribes Cultural Village and an afternoon at the Tea Tea Tea museum learning about the lake's red tea heritage, we settle in with tea-smoked eggs from a Thao elder's roadside pot and cups of warm, honey-sweet Sun Moon Lake No. 18. Meanwhile, in Jisai Kingdom, Tang Monk discovers monks in iron collars forced to clean a pagoda — and a mystery at the top that only Sun Wukong and Pigsy can solve.
Location: Sun Moon Lake
Food: Thao Tea Eggs | Sun Moon Lake Red Tea

Episode 61 brings us to Puli — the geographic heart of Taiwan, tucked in the mountains of Nantou County. Known for its incredibly clean water and the famous Shaoxing rice wine brewed from it, Puli is the kind of mountain town that rewards those who drive past the tourist shortcuts. At the Baolhu Earth God Temple and a chocolate castle inspired by local cacao, we settle in with Shaoxing-braised dishes and pickled eggs steeped in wine. Meanwhile, the Battle of Fire Mountain reaches its thundering finale — all of Heaven descends on Bull Demon King, and Sun Wukong finally gets what he came for.
Location: Puli Township
Food: Shaoxing Wine Cuisine | Shaoxing Pickled Eggs