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Night markets of Taiwan

Taiwan Taipei Songshan District

Night markets of Taiwan
Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Taiwan is famous for its night markets, crowded with food stalls. In Taipei, Raohe Street has the famous black pepper buns, and Shilin is the largest. Try stinky tofu, oyster omelettes, beef noodle soup, bubble tea (invented in Taiwan) and shaved ice.


Markets get going around 6 pm. Tainan, the old capital, is considered the food capital of Taiwan, with many more markets.

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