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I currently found some articles that described the night markets in Taiwan, and I believed that these articles are written by Taiwanese. As a reference, you guys may know more about how’s the night markets look like.

Article #1: Hitting the Night Markets

Article #2: Shi Lin Night Market: Offers Dining, Shopping and Entertainment at Cut-rate Prices

Pictures: A popular way to see, shop, smell and eat your way through Taiwan

Other Night Markets in Taiwan

Southern Part of Taiwan
District Area	Night Market	Location	Famous foods/snacks
Chiayi City East District	Wunhua Night Market (文化路夜市)	From Jhongshan Rd to Chueiyang Rd	Turkey rice, soy milk, doufuhau, fish’s head, etc 2006/07/01 turned to the 16th park
	Kalokfuk Night Market (家樂福夜市)	Bo-ai Rd	·Open every Tueday – Sunday
Chiayi County Puzih City	Puzih Night Market (朴子夜市)	Near Sec. 1, Sihwei Rd, Guangfusin Rd., and San-an Rd.; next to the sport center	· Only open on Saturday
Dalin Township	Dalin Night Market (大林夜市)	Near Dalin Train station	· Only open on Monday
Minsyong Township	Minsyong Night Market (民雄夜市)	Near Minsyong Temple	· Only open on Monday
Tainan County Guantian Township	Nuantian Night Market (隆田夜市)	Near Nuantian primary school and sport center
Lioujia Township	Lioujia Night Market (六甲夜市)
Tainan City West Central District	Wusheng Night Market (武聖夜市)	No.69, Wusheng Rd	Only open on Wednesday and Saturday
North District	Siaobei Night Market (小北夜市)	From the cross-section of Simen Rd to Lin-an Rd	Tan Tsai Noodle, fish congee, eel noodle, etc
West Central District	Huayuan Night Market (花園夜市)	Hai-an Rd and Hewei Rd	·Open on Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
	Chenggong Night Market (成功夜市)	Lane 171, Sec. 1, Simen Rd.	· Open on Tuesday and Friday
North District	Tai Dong Night Market (大東夜市)	Linsen Rd.	·Open on Tuesday and Friday
	Taitonee Night Market (大統一夜市)	Sec. 4, Sec 311, Simen Rd	· Open on Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
West Central District	Yonghua Night Market (永華夜市)	Yonghua 2st St	·Open on Thursday and Sunday
	Tai Tainan Night Market (大台南夜市)	Hai-an Rd	· The biggest night market in Taiwan Open on Monday, Tuesday, Friday
Kaohsiung City Cianjin District	Liouhe Night Market (六合夜市)	Liouhe 2nd Rd.	Papaya milk, traditional congee, steamed salty shrimp, etc
Sanmin District	Xin Xeng Night Market (新興夜市)	Nanhua Rd	Mushroom with meat soup, fried corn, ice-shaving, etc
Gushan District	Ruifeng Night Market (瑞豐夜市)	Minglun Rd., Yucheng Rd. and Nanping Rd.	·Monday and Wednesday off The biggest night market in Kaohsiung City
Lingya District	Guanghua Night Market (光華夜市)	Sanduo Rd. and Guanghua Rd
	Singjhong Night Market (興中夜市)	Singjhong Rd. and Wunheng Rd
Kaohsiung County Gangshan Township	Cingnian Night Market (青年夜市)	Cingnian St	· Open every Thur to Sun
Fongshan City	Guotai Night Market (國泰夜市)	Guotai Rd	· Open every Wednesday, Friday to Sunday
Pingtung County Pingtung City	Minzu Night Market (民族夜市)	Minzu Rd.	Meat balls, mushroom soup, Chinese rice dumpling, ice-shaving, etc.
	Rueiguang Night Market (瑞光夜市)
Eastern Part of Taiwan
Yilan County Luodong Township	Luodong Night Market (羅東夜市)	Downtown of Luodong	Oar jien, duck meat, meat soup, chicken finger, ect
Hualien County Hualien City	Beibin Night Market (北濱夜市)	Beibin St
	Nanbin Night Market (南濱夜市)	Nanbin Park	Stinky tofu, oar jien, fried salty shrimp, etc
	Zihciang Night Market (自強夜市)	Zihciang St	Different kinds of fruit juice

Night Markets in Middle Taiwan

Middle part of Taiwan
District Area	Night Market	Location	Famous foods/snacks
Taichung City Central District	Jhonghua Night Market (中華夜市)	Near Gongyuan Rd. and Mincyuan Rd	Meatball, Chinese spring roll, Medicine duck, etc
Situn District	FengJia Night Mareket (逢甲夜市)	Near Fusing Rd. and Wunhua Rd	Zongzi (Chinese rice dumpling), stinky tofu, sausage, etc
	Donghai Night Market (東海夜市)	Near Donghai University	Cold chicken finger, etc
South District	Jhongsiao Night Market (忠孝夜市)	Near Guoguang Rd.	Omurice, Medicine duck, etc
Nantou County Caotun Township	Caoxie Dunrenwen Night Market (草鞋墩人文夜市)	Jhongjheng Rd.	Indian tea, Medicine duck, spiral shells with liquor, etc
Changhua County Lugang Township	Lugang Night Market (鹿港夜市)	From Lugang Temple to Minzu Rd.	Oyster, Thalassinidea
Yunlin County Douliou City	Douliou Night Market (斗六夜市)

Taiwan — Night market @Shida(4)

Salty water chicken (鹹水雞)

There are at least 3 stores that sell salty chicken in Shida night market. But the most popular is sold by an old man. He cut the chickens into little pieces and then put in a big cup. Then serve with chicken soup, pepper, green onion, and ginger. The most special of his chicken is adding Chinese medicines to boil the chicken before. With the chicken soup, it brings out the strong flavor of the Chinese medicines and the taste of chickens. Actually you are able to buy this kind of chicken in any night markets in Taiwan. However this store in Shida night market is the most popular

Shida night market :

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Taiwan — Night market @Shida (3)

Mu Ding Japanese-style ice shaving store (木町日式冰店)

 

Mu Ding is a dessert store which mainly provides Japanese-style ice shaving. The owner specially brings the syrup from Japan back to Taiwan.

Green tea ice shaving — This is her popular ice shaving. The owner uses the Japanese green tea powder to make jellies, tangyuan, ice-cream. Then serve with red bean and the Japanese syrup. I think their red beans do not dip in sweet-water before, thus all the red beans are not that sweet.

Hawaiian ice shaving – This ice shaving is serving with vanilla ice cream, soda, and four different seasonally fruits. It is not a colorful ice shaving, but also suitable to have it in summer. And it’s healthier than other ice shaving since it does not serve with too much syrup.

Sweet soup with white fungus and lotus nuts – If you do not want to have the cold ice shaving during winter, Mu Ding provides some hot Chinese dessert. This hot tong sui contains white fungus (tremella fuciformis) and lotus nuts which is really healthy and nourishing.

Black glutinous rice – This is one of the desserts that the owner highly recommended. Rich flavors of coconut tong sui and combine with sweet black glutinous rice.

Japanese rice dishes (Japanese: rice dish = “donburi/don” 丼) – The dessert store not only provide Japanese ice shaving, but also some Japanese rice and noodle dishes for customers. Such as fried pork rice dish (pork don), eel don, udon, etc. These dishes attract a lot of Taiwanese students.

 

Address: No.50, Longcyuan St., Da-an District, Taipei City 10645, Taiwan (R.O.C.) [next to Lantern Lou Mei] Tel: 02-3365-1680; Service hours: Mon-Sun 11:30-23:30

Tai-one dessert store (臺一牛奶大王)

 

Tai-one is one of the dessert stores in Shida night market that provide tang yuan. They have different kinds of tang yuan, included both sweet and salt flavors. They also provide ice shaving, but not as famous as Mu Ding.

Red bean soup with tang yuan

Tang yuan with sweet peanut tong sui

Salt flavor’s tang yuan

Ice shaving with chocolate and pudding

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Taiwan – Night market @Shida (2)

 Yaki (車輪蛋糕)

Yaki actually is a Japanese dessert called imagawayaki. In Japan, there are various shapes of the yaki, mainly are depended on the culture of that places.This cake is kind of like cream puff. There are several ingredients of the yaki, the most common is cream butter. They also provide red bean, taro, etc.The size of each yaki is not very big. Thus you are able to have other delicious foods in the night market.

 Candy Apple

Like traditional American candy apple, this store also use green apple and serve caramel outside the apple. Firstly, they will use vinegar and salt water to soak for three hours, in order to keep the nutrition of the apple’s skin. Also it can remove the wax outside the apple and maintain the crispy texture of the apple’s skin. They also provide over 20 flavors of candy apple, such as with strawberries, cotton candy, chocolate bean, gummi bear, oatmeal, etc. Because of the colorful candy apples attract a lot of people.

 Candy apple with fruit hard candies

 Candy apple with oatmeal, honey, and almond

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