Former South Korean president Kim Young-sam visited Taipei for five days in July 2001.

Indeed, over afternoon tea today, Mr. Ma invited Mr. Tung to visit Taipei.

It is owned by the Duen-Mou Foundation of Taiwan, a non-profit organization, and has played host to many foreign dignitaries who have visited Taipei.

Even with many outlets worldwide today, thousands of tourists still visit Taipei every year just to eat at its original location.

This came just weeks after PRC envoy Chen Yunlin visited Taipei, Taiwan.

"I visited Taipei for a week, once, and this is almost that good."

He visited Taipei twice.

The Asian tour also visited Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, and Taipei.

He visited the Hague (1985) and Taipei (2006) for prestigious academic programmes.

Not long after that, some industrial workers visiting Taipei for training also developed this skin disease.