Said the writer Chang Hsiao-feng of Taitung's beaches, "It is difficult to fathom why people from Taiwan will spend so much money and wait in such long lines to get American visas to spend three days in Hawaii, when Taiwan already has a spot more Hawaiian than Hawaii."
作家張小鳳遊過台東的沙灘，曾寫道：「真想不通為什麼台灣的人要花那麼多錢，排那麼長的隊，拿美國簽證到夏威夷玩三天。」她說：「事實上，在我們自己的國土裡，就有比夏威夷更夏威夷的地方。」