The city of Fengyuan in Taichung County is one of Taiwan's homes of cakes. Around the dawn of the 20th century, people began to migrate to Taiwan from Zhangzhou in Fujian Province, establishing towns and creating farms irrigated by the Tachia River. In 1920, the Japanese colonists called the area Toyohara--Fengyuan in Chinese, or "flourishing plain" in English.
台中縣豐原市是台灣糕餅的發源地之一，清末，福建漳州人開始入墾，引大甲溪水灌溉，形成街市；1920 年日人以此地物產豐厚，取名豐原。