Afternoon Tea by the Train: Discovering the Invisible Connection Between Indonesia and Miaoli 🚂✨

At the Miaoli Railway Museum, time seems to stretch gently along the railway tracks. Today, our protagonist accepts a friend’s invitation to have tea with a Hakka elder.

As the elder shares stories about the Hakka spirit in Miaoli—respect for heaven, compassion for others, resilience, and deep devotion to faith—she listens intently. She suddenly remembers hearing about this growing up: “Isn’t this exactly what the elders in Indonesia used to tell us?”

It turns out that whether in the mountain towns of Miaoli or in the Hakka communities in Indonesia, the same spirit of hard work, perseverance, and devotion to family lives on. Through a simple activity like having tea, our protagonist realizes that her connection to this land is closer than she ever imagined.

👉 Watch the story here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UJJ2QYFw4k

(To be continued…)