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 What you must know
 Environment
North of Zengwun Creek, Sigang is looking to Anding Township from the cross side of the Creek. On the Jiianan Plain, Sigang has flat lands and mild weather highly suitable for agriculture. Bordering Madou at east, Jiali at north, Anping District of Tainan City at south, and Cigu at west, Sigang is a small township with one high school, one junior high school and six elementary schools.
Located at the pivot point between Tainan City and Beimen Township with Tai 19 Expressway crossing through the town, Sigang links to Anding and Tainan through Sigang Bridge at south and Jiali/Sueijia at north. Tai 173 Provincial Expressway, the major access of the town, links Madou at north and Cigu at west.
History
Located southwest of Tainan County at the north shore of Zengwun Creek, Sigang was an inland port of the Taijiang Inland Lake. The History of Jhuluo County, Sigang was already noted as a ferry point for goods and passengers in the recordings made in 1717 (Kangxi 56 Qing Dynasty, note: this township was part of the municipality of Anding Community). As Taijiang Inland Lake disappeared over the years, Sigang gradually lost its function as a trade center.
Development of Sigang was marked by the construction of today’s Cingan Temple at Cingan Village, which was built in the Zheng Cheng-Gong Era of Ming Dynasty. This indicates that development of this area began as early as the 17th century. The name of Sigang (west port) might have come from the fact that it was west of the Tackalan Port (today’s Anding).
Another story says that this place was a seashore land west of the backup camps of Zheng Cheng-Gong, so it was called Sigang (west port). The place was officially name as Sigang in 1920 and zoned as Sigang Township Tainan County in 1948.
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 Where you must go
Scenic spots
  Sigang Festival:
The Yule Cingan Temple is a historic site of three-hundred years old enshrining the Twelve Kings of Plague. This structure has gone through six refurbishments and rebuilding, religious rituals held here are participated by more than 90 villages and tribes. The festival is held every three years. It is one of the largest religious festivals in Taiwan famed as the Festival of Taiwan.
Sigang Sesame Festival:
 The sesame festival is hosted by Sigang Farmers’ Association in December every year. The fanfare is opened by lion dances and sesame feasts each year. The fun fair has an line up of activities include beating sesame, water buffalo rides, exhibitions of farming tools and utensils, sesame oil making, sesame gourmets, sesame noodle competition, and country tours. The most popular activity is till the sesame gourmet. Sesame is high in energy; it is deemed as the best thing for winter.
Under active promotion of Sigang township hall and farmers’ association, Sigang’s sesame oil has opened a sizeable market. Signag Sesame – No. 1 in Taiwan is no longer a slogan; Sigang is now famous for not only the tri-annual festival but also the fragrant sesame products.
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 What you can’t miss eating
Special snacks
Sigang Rice Cake:
 The name Huang Liang will come immediately into mind if you mention rice cake to a local resident here. Mr. Huang Liang’s rice cake has the perfect texture. Even up till today, Mr. Huang Liang is still making rice cake with the recipe passed down from his father. Although the wood fire cooking procedure is rather complicated, Huang Liang remembers his father’s teaching – “for the health of our customers, we do not add anything unnatural; neither do we cut short of the ingredients”.
Shrimp Meat Rice by the Washroom:
 By the side of the washroom in Sigang market, a stall selling shrimp meat rice opens from 10.30am to 12pm. Two hundred servings of the shrimp meat rice are usually sold out in half an hour; the slow walkers will just have come earlier the next day.
Wu’s Rolls:
 There is always a long cue in front of the Wu’s Rolls stall inside of Sigang Market during the Qing Ming Holiday time. The cue sometimes goes as far as 10 meters; it is an interesting sight. The Wu family has been in the roll business for more than 40 years. Everybody in Singang knows the boss Wu Kun-Cheng. The crunchy skin and fresh stuffing is the taste unforgettable by Sigang residents. The Wu Family only does business for three months a year, but the moment the door is open, a cue forms immediately. This is how popular Wu family’s rolls are.
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