The owner of one of the few remaining shops, in his seventies, points to his door and says, "You used to be able to see the river from here. The big ships went as far as Hsin-chuang, and the small ones all the way to Tahsi."
柯成興茶行是如今僅存的幾家茶行之一，七十有餘的老店東指著茶行門口說：「以前站在我這店頭，看出去就是淡水河；河上帆船、汽船來來去去，從這裡，大船可以到新莊，小船可以到大溪呢。」