In fact, even when the roadsides of most provincial routes have become lined with huge Karaoke Television parlors, coffee shops, and Western style restaurants, scenes easily visible in towns large and small across Taiwan, you could only see a few small stands selling bamboo shoots or red sugar cane on the sides of Puli streets.
甚至，當幾線省道旁矗立起一幢幢佔地廣闊的 KTV、庭園咖啡、西餐廳，成為台灣大城小鎮常見景觀時，埔里的路旁仍只見賣茭白筍、烤紅甘蔗的小販。