The fact is that exports of jelly figs from Taiwan have never ceased, and today jelly figs seem to have become a focus of Japanese enthusiasm for things Taiwanese. Thick jelly-fig juice slowly oozing out between mother's kneading fingers, amid the shrill buzz of cicadas, under the hot noonday sun.
原來，台灣出口愛玉子不曾間斷，如今愛玉子還彷彿成了日本人「哈台風」的要角。在尖銳嘹亮的蟬唧聲中，稠稠的愛玉汁液緩緩從母親雙手搓揉間流動出來… …，豔陽高照中，台灣的愛玉，會不會徒然成為許多人腦海裡令人懷念的夏日回憶？