Man visits Taipei yearly looking for kindly stranger from almost four decades ago

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/06/28
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — An elementary school principal from southern Taiwan came all the way to Taipei City to look for a woman who ran a noodle stall and always gave him extra wontons 35 years ago during his student days.

Pingtung County Jien Guo Elementary School Principal Shih Shi-zhi (施世治) came to Taipei's Nanchang Park (南昌公園) during the Dragon Boat Festival with a picket that read, "Looking for my benefactor who sold noodles here 35 years ago." He also went door to door asking furniture store owners and elderly people in local temples whether they knew the whereabouts of the "wonton noodle mama" who ran a noodle stall near the park, CNA reported Sunday (June 28).

Shih told CNA that he visited the store of his landlord from when he attended a cram school in Taipei, but the owners he knew have passed away, and their children have no memories of the wonton mama.

Shih first posted the story about him and the wonton mama three years ago. He wrote that after he failed the joint college entrance exam, his father spent his savings to enable him to attend a well-reputed cram school in preparation for the following year's test.  [FULL  STORY]