From the title “Taste ASEAN” and the cover of this book, you can guess that it’s a guide of Southeast Asian cuisine and an illustrated book about spices, fruits and vegetables in ASEAN.

The first part of the book introduces the history and culture of Southeast Asian countries through the characteristics of food and the relationship between these countries and Taiwan. The second part is about how the markets and settlements of Southeast Asian form and develop in Taiwan with their own special features, and also the records of the fieldwork by the author in these places. Each article will introduce several spices, fruits and vegetables of Southeast Asian, and more than 100 kinds of plants will be introduced.