一夜台北
August 05, 2010
Night markets are awesome cos after eating, it's shopping time and after shopping you can go back and eat again when you're hungry. The best part is, both food and clothes are good and cheap, with lots of variety to choose from. Damn shiok! These are the night markets he brought me to in chronological order:
1. Huaxi Night Market / 華西街夜市
Long Shan Temple (龍山寺) was built in 1738, incorporating designs of temples from the Qing Dynasty and post Japanese occupation period. It's located just beside Hua Xi Jie. Worth taking a look.
雕工精细 古色古香
It was crowded and everyone was praying in different directions. I was trying to face the temple hall and I have people praying back at me, straight in my face. He passed me 7 joss sticks and we went from deity to deity, there were so many of them sometimes I don't even know which deity I was praying to lol.
This tourist stretch is better known for the snake killing and tasting of different parts of the snake, which is considered by many to be aphrodisiac. It is no surprise to find quite a number of shops selling sex toys here as well. Brilliant tenant mix.
Slaughtering will only take place when someone wants to drink/eat snake juice/meat. No one was interested or adventurous enough to try on that night. Too bad. No show to see.
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We had pork rib noodles first while waiting for the stalls to open. Quite oily but passable.
Barbeque cuttlefish was ok only, not really worth the price (S$3.50). Tempura was good! Remember to ask for their piping hot soup after you finish the ingredients!
A neat and colourful fruit juice stall
Dessert was yam soup-refreshing and not too sweet. Nice!
2. Rao He Night Market / 饒河夜市
Another temple built in the 1700's located beside a night market. Ciyou Temple (慈祐宫) looks quite impressive doesn't it?
We just survived a downpour at Shifen and unfortunately many stalls were not opened today due to the rain :(
The pepper meat biscuit had a long queue but I didn't join in cos he said it wasn't fantastic. The sausage was really good. You may want to get the pancakes for next morning's breakfast bcos they don't seem to sell any decent breakfast here.
Even non-shopaholics like me managed to go home with bags of stuff from Wufenpu. The best part is, we can shop till it closes without having to worry about train services bcos we stayed in Houshanpi!
3. Shilin Night Market / 士林夜市
I'm finally here at the real Shilin
Maybe I had high expectations of the famous chicken cutlet, it wasn't that fantastic after all. The breaded skin was too thick. It was put aside after we got the famous flour-rice noodles. Caution: Don't add too much chilli it can get choking spicy when it's already scalding hot!
辛發亭-蘆薈蜂蜜雪花冰
Aloe vera with honey snow ice (milk flavour)
This is the popular online store selling bags. If u buy direct in Taiwan, it's quite cheap and they even offer free repair service. I bought 5 bags in total of which 2 were from here.
He said this is the fake Shilin
Giddy?
4. Shida Night Market / 師大夜市
Frequent by students from Shifan University
His favourite 燈籠鹵味-don't over order it can easily cost S$5!
The popular big crepe. We had banana chocolate flavour. Half the time we were licking off chocolate stains hur.
I had such an awesome time at the night markets. We reached our service apartment past 12 midnight everyday (I've never hanged out this late in other countries) and by the time we washed up it was almost 1am!
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