Ten years ago, a number of Southeast Asian women were brought to this traditional Hakka community to look for partners among the local widowers and single men, but less than ten of them married and settled in the area, and "foreign brides" remained a rarity. Later, the practice was stopped from catching on when the government began to restrict the entry of single women from Southeast Asia on tourist visas.
美濃，這個傳統的客家農村，十年前就有人帶著東南亞女子來這裡跟本地的鰥夫、單身漢相親，當時順利結婚、就此落戶定居的不到十個，「外籍媳婦」還是地方上的稀有族群；不過後來由於政府限制東南亞單身女子以觀光簽證入境，這股女方渡海來台相親的風潮便告終止。