After the war of resistance against Japan broke out, he settled down in Taiwan, and used Keelung as his base to continue selling the rice dough figurines on the island.
後來中日戰爭爆發，斷絕了李金玉回大陸的路，不滿三十歲的他便以基隆為根據地，往台灣全省各地繼續他沿城鎮販賣捏麵人的生活。