Ceramics has been argued to provide a view of how people respond to cultural upheavals, particularly, conquest and colonialism. In this presentation, I discuss the consumption of foreign porcelains in Taichung Huochejan site, pre- and post-Japanese colonial period. The question I ask is, ‘did the Han immigrants in Taiwan kept their identity by everyday porcelain consumption, driven by the habitus?’ ‘or were the Han Taiwanese even purchased their porcelains in a certain way as a hidden resistance toward the Japanese rulers?’ The Taichung Huochejan site is known as a household built by Han immigrants in Mid Qing, and was torn down before 1905 during the period when there were intensive rebellions toward the Japanese colonizers on the island. Hundreds of repairable porcelain vessels from China, Japan, and Europe are the most representative artifacts discovered in the site. In this presentation, I scrutinize the porcelains in this site mainly by visual and typological analysis to understand their dates, sources, and ranks that were understood by the Chinese in the Qing period. By integrating the archaeological findings with the texts, I can demonstrate better how the members of the household made their decisions (among accessibility, price, and identity) while purchasing the porcelains. The results will help us understand the daily life of the Han Taiwanese amid severe frictions with the Japanese colonizers.