In her books Away From Home: and Back: My United Family and Xiu Mei, she seeks the trajectory of life's back-and-forth. Taiwanese writer Chih-Hsin Chang centres Hakka culture, family history, and the migration of ethnic groups in her work. Growing up in a family that includes Hakka, Vietnamese, Indonesian, South African, Amis, and Atayal ethnic groups, she is a microcosm of contemporary Taiwan, which happens to be in dialogue with globalization and the Canadian immigrant community. Starting from her literary works, Chang intertwines food and memory, depicting the cultural encounters of Taiwan's small towns in the context of different eras. Her family memories also extend to the Vietnamese and Indonesian immigrants during the Vietnam War era, reflecting the relocation of industries and the fusion of families. She will use traditional Hakka cuisine to show the connection between the history of women's lives and the culture of food and drink. Each dish is linked to the memory of an era, presenting the history and development of the region, as well as a glimpse of Taiwan's diversity and tolerance from the table.