The luxury they enjoyed there was in stark contrast to the way the fishermen in the village lived--in the latter years of World War II, fishermen risked incarceration to take their wares by the old road to Taipei and sell them on the black market.
相較於日治末期二次大戰期間，當地漁民冒著被拘留 29 天的處罰，從「魚路古道」摸黑走私漁貨到台北求售的驚恐與辛勞，讓人有「朱門酒肉臭」之嘆。