Let's go pray at Longshan Temple in Wanhua District.
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history
Wanhua's older name 艋舺 (Měngxiá / Bangka in Taiwanese Hokkien) comes from the Ketagalan word for 'small canoe.' During Japanese rule the name was respelled in kanji as 萬華 (Manka), giving today's 万华.
culture
Home to Longshan Temple (龙山寺), the night markets of Huaxi Street (华西街), and the 2010 film 《艋舺》 ('Monga') — a coming-of-age gangster drama set in 1980s Wanhua that became a Taiwanese box-office smash.
In Pop Culture
《艋舺》Měngxiá
Monga
2010 Taiwanese gangster film directed by Doze Niu, set in Wanhua's underworld
