After the Kuomintang government relocated to Taiwan from China in 1949, inflation spiraled out of control. When the New Taiwan Dollar was introduced, the Changs were selling a bowl of their grass-jelly ice for NT $ 0.10 (the equivalent of 40,000 old Taiwan Dollars).
1949 年國民政府從中國大陸撤守台灣，因為經濟衰弊，通膨驚人，不得不以 4 萬元舊台幣的兌換率發行新台幣，仙草冰改為一碗收費一角錢。