HeZuo Friendly Crops

「Tasty home food of tribal flavors」

The owner of the café Tiyansu Pawtawan left his motherland for study of quality agriculture only to return and stay here for good; he has grown organic rice at his village since his college graduation and run a home café to share traditional food of his tribe with his guests. Located at Kaadaadaan tribal village at Guanshan Township in the Coastal Mountain Range , HeZuo Friendly Crops was named after the old name of a road at his village. Tiyansu Pawtawan and his wife Shiun Ping run the home café to receive their visitors. “I am a slashie and growing rice is my main job. We just manage this café to share our traditional food.” The cafeteria serves home-roasting coffee and Amis-style snacks, including roasted rice ball with Silaw and roasted mochi. Silaw is a traditional cured meat of the Amis tribe, which has a sour, salty and sweet flavor after fermentation. Placed on top of rice grown at Kaadaadaan tribal village and roasted by fire, it releases a distinctive, pleasant flavor that impresses many of the café’s visitors. Last year, Tiyansu Pawtawan started to learn how to prepare Silaw from his grandmother. He takes pride in making the rice ball with Silaw, which tastes just like that made by his grandmother!