Neiwan Theater Cultural Hakka Cuisine Restaurant Introduction
The Neiwan Theater is the only remaining wooden theater in Taiwan that is still operational. Originally an abandoned site, the current owner has preserved the theater's original Japanese aesthetic after leasing it, transforming it into a dining venue that combines a traditional grocery store, art exhibitions, screenings of classic films, and creative Hakka cuisine, passing down over 30 years of Taiwanese culinary culture. The totemic impressions climbing through fragmented memories consist of the early Neiwan's camphor refining, mining, and lumbering, all forming the prosperous old street. Those past glories leave behind not just nostalgia in the old theater but also a rich Hakka cultural ambiance; the over fifty-year-old theater seems to enact the history and stories of more than thirty years, with fragments full of nostalgia making one reminisce, each bite of food accompanied by a touch of memory, evoking infinite aftertastes. As the first dining venue in Taiwan where patrons can watch movies for free, the star of Neiwan's historic architecture is undoubtedly the Neiwan Theater. This over fifty-year-old theater, a pure two-story wooden building in the Japanese style, has served as a filming location for movies like "Spring and Autumn Tea House" and "Mulberry." The Neiwan Theater was built in 1950 by the then councilor Yang Shengquan, who understood the leisure needs of forest laborers since he managed both the camphor production and the mountain site, leading to the creation of this famous theater in a small village with only over a thousand inhabitants at that time.
