Tainan 台南台南

Scooters and signboards at a busy crossing.

Rattan chairs in a café inside an old warehouse.

Arriving at Tainan Station.

A tide of scooters at dusk in front of an old colonial building.

Floor-to-ceiling shelves in a Tainan bookstore.

A bicycle among the bookshelves.

A temple tower lettered with a prayer to Guanyin.

Pork-lard rice, a fried egg and fish-ball soup.

Ding Fu Fa (鼎富發), famous for its pork-lard rice.

Hayashi Department Store (林百貨) lit up at night.

The pale-blue record shop from the Taiwanese drama Someday or One Day (想見你), in the Blueprint Culture & Creative Park.

Banyan roots spreading overhead at Anping.

A capybara wearing a mandarin orange.

The capybara, perfectly calm under its orange.

Lanterns over Shennong Street at night.

Red lanterns down a Shennong Street lane.

A lantern-hung old street in daylight.

A temple gate in the old city.

Painted tiles and a black cat on a brick wall.

Tile paintings with a cat, hung on a grid wall.

A fruit stall piled with guava, wax apple and papaya.

Dinner in Tainan: fish-ball soup, braised tofu and eggs, and minced-pork rice under pork floss.

The white lookout tower of Anping Old Fort.

Banyan roots swallowing the old warehouse at the Anping Tree House.

A takeaway drink in Anping.

A toy shop of retro figurines and old tins.

Snoopy figurines in the same toy shop.

An old corner shophouse hung with red lanterns.

Banyan roots near Anping Old Fort.

Inside the Anping Tree House, roots over the old walls.

The Tainan Confucius Temple.

Plaques in praise of Confucius in the temple hall.

A rainbow painted on a white wall in the old town.