When you take into account this unpredictability, even though Matsu is closer to the mainland than Kinmen, businesspeople often prefer to give it a miss. As Chen Sai-hsiang, operator of a hotel, says with exasperation, "Folks in Matsu depend for their daily bread on the vagaries of the weather."
如果考慮到這種難以掌握的變數，即便由馬祖前往大陸比金門更近，台商也往往望之卻步。「馬祖人都是看天吃飯的，」經營假期飯店的陳賽香無奈地指出。