Taiwan Travel Guide: Night Markets, Mountain Trails, and Island Culture There is an island nation off the coast of mainland China where night markets serve food so extraordinary that dedicated food travelers rank it above anywhere in Southeast Asia, where a marble-walled canyon carved by a river creates hiking opportunities that rival anything in the American Southwest, where traditional Chinese culture survives in forms that the Cultural Revolution erased on the mainland, where bubble tea was invented and where its contemporary iterations achieve sophistication that the international franchise versions cannot approach, where a high-speed rail network connects modern cities with efficiency that makes European rail look antiquated, where temple culture,…