TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Limited-edition gift bags offered by the Taiwan Pavilion at the Paris Cultural Olympiad were all handed out on Tuesday (Aug. 6).

The pavilion began distributing the bags to its first 200 daily visitors on July 27. The bags contained various Taiwanese items, including popular boba pins provided by Taiwan’s Olympic committee, per CNA.

A social media post on Aug. 6 revealed that the final 200 gift bags, which could include the coveted boba pins, would be available that day at 5 p.m. This prompted a surge in visitors, some arriving as early as 2 p.m.

Taiwan Pavilion artistic director Lin Kun-ying (林昆穎) explained that the venue gave out various gift bags filled with Taiwanese cultural products. Initial gift bags, traditional Taiwanese handbags containing 300 of the pavilion’s six unique pins, were all handed out in three days.

The subsequent bags were totes made with the same material as Taiwan's traditional rice bags. These included the boba and Paris Olympics pins.

Lin said the pavilion had become a platform for cultural exchange as people of different nationalities swapped pins and souvenirs, a long-standing Olympic tradition.