Man went to a familiar betel nut stand, asking to put NT$100 worth of betel nuts on credit. When the vendor refused, the dispute escalated when the drunken would-be chewer brandished a kitchen knife.
After years of archival research and experimentation, a Pingtung man is rediscovering historical methods once used to produce deep, durable dyes from betel nut, techniques that had largely disappeared, even locally.
