At that time, jelly figs were readily available, and in Taipei's Tihua Street, where all kinds of dried foodstuffs are sold, baskets and sacks of the figs were stacked up into huge mounds that the poet Hsi Mu-jung described as majestic "ore heaps."
當時市場上很容易買到愛玉果，賣南北貨的迪化街更是一簍簍、一袋袋，堆得像小山，詩人席慕容將之形容為壯觀的「原礦」。