My wife recommended this video to me. On my YouTube, there are English subtitles in addition to the Chinese subtitles. So even if you don't understand Taiwanese, this should be understandable, I hope.
It's about what the grandmother and her family ate when she was a kid during World War II: sweet potato strips (蕃薯籤). It gets into the history of wartime Taiwan--what ordinary people experienced.
She mentions the May 17, 1945, bombing of the Keishu Sugar Plant (溪州糖廠 [Chinese]) in Changhua. This was part of the series of bombing raids the US conducted on Taiwan in the last years of the war. Here's an interesting article on that history and how it was buried during the time that the KMT wanted to deemphasize the fact that the US was bombing the "enemy"--Taiwan wasn't part of China at that time. In the video, the grandmother talks about how terrifying it was back then. People would sit around in the courtyard of their traditional Taiwanese homes and say, "We're all here tonight, but we don't know what will happen tomorrow."
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