Cat Cafes in Huwei, Yunlin County

Huwei, Yunlin County

Sunny Cat (日光下的猫) is a rescue cafe on Linsen Road, Section 2, in Huwei Township, Yunlin, run as a halfway house for stray and abandoned cats. The ground floor is a regular, pet-friendly dining room. Upstairs is the cat room, where a large group of rescued cats, from playful kittens to long-haired cats saved from breeding farms, wander freely among the tables, nap in the windows and settle on laps. Once a cat is ready, it can be adopted. The cafe matches each cat with an adopter through several visits rather than handing it over on the spot. Visitors switch to indoor slippers before going up, and staff give children gentle guidance on handling the cats. The kitchen serves Japanese-style curry rice, brunch plates, soufflé pancakes, sundaes, coffee and sparkling drinks. Yunlin has no public animal shelter, so every order helps support the cats.

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Huwei, Yunlin County

Tinco Metalwork Huwei (庭口金工 虎尾店) is a silversmith's studio and cafe in Building D of the restored Jianguo Military Dependents' Village in Huwei Township, Yunlin. Half of the vintage space is for jewellery-making and half for the cafe, and four resident cats, introduced by the shop as its cat managers, roam both, greeting guests table by table before wandering off for a nap. Visitors change into slippers at the door. Silver ring, bracelet and necklace workshops run in booked sessions of about two and a half hours, and the shop also sells handmade jewellery and takes custom orders. Cafe seating is walk-in, and the menu draws on military-village home cooking, with hot-and-sour noodles, spicy dumplings and braised beef shank, plus rice-cake snacks, ice cream, coffee and tea. Keep the door closed behind you, as the cats are free to roam. Park at the Jianguo village car park and walk in.