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Taiwan Diary: Night Markets
Taiwan Diary: Night Markets
Taiwan Diary: Night Markets
Taiwan Diary: Night Markets
Taiwan Diary: Night Markets

Taipei, Taiwan is well known for their amazing night markets and the most famous/popular one is called “Shilin Night Market (士林夜市)”. It is so lively and filled with locals and tourists. However, our friends gave us some insider info and told us that the locals think “Keelung Night Market (基隆廟口夜市)” has the best food so we made it a point to visit both of them. All of the photos above (except the last one) are from Keelung Night Market since we spent more time there.

Keelung Night Market is located slightly in the outskirts of the city center and it’s a little difficult to get to (we went there by car). Our friends told us to pace ourselves but it sure was hard to since there were so many delicious looking foods. As soon as we saw something we were interested in, we bought it and ate it. We were literally stuffed but the funny thing is, our friends didn’t even think we ate that much because they easily ate twice as much as we did…sigh*

There were some hits and misses in what we tried but the most memorable for me was the “nutritious sandwich” and the gyoza-like little dumpling cakes only for NT$10 (USD$0.33 cents). I knew Taipei street markets were cheap but that was really cheap!

The major difference between the Shilin and Keelung night markets was that Shilin was much larger in size and had more clothing/souvenir shops and less food. Keelung was mainly focused on the food vendors with a little bit of shopping. Although we didn’t get to try everything, I’d say we got a good taste of Taiwan’s night market scene :)

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