Taipei from Above
Stunning view of Taipei on my way back from Kaohsiung. At the bottom right, you can clearly see Taipei 101. Would have been a perfect picture without the smudge on the window!
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Old poster in a back street alley in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Taiwan Beer
Last evening in Kaoshiung, Taiwan: enjoying local beverages – Taiwan Beer !
Liuhe Night Market
The Liuhe Night Market is the “tourist” night market of Kaohsiung. The highlight of the market is seafood: there are many stands selling, crab, shrimp, octopus, and squid. Some stands are actually restaurants and you can pick the fresh seafood you want and walk to the back and sit at a table to eat. Sitting at the plastic tables, on the plastic chairs in the middle of the street is however a lot more fun.
I’m not sure why it is called the “tourist” night market though because I didn’t many of them, or at least definitely less than in the Ruifeng Night Market, where the food was generally of lower quality (my Chinese friends agreed with me). Liuhe is also where we had a chance to eat some snake!
Snake Food
Taiwanese delicacy in Kaohsiung: snake soup, snake meat and grilled snake skin. Was actually good! Didn’t notice any of the supposed effects though (read, in the pants area). Two possible explanations: I am naturally very “healthy” or my condition is beyond help ;-)
Ruifeng Night Market
Ruifeng Night Market or Rueifong Night Market, is the largest night market in Kaohsiung & Pingtung. Even though it isn’t quite as famous as the Liouhe Night Market (more on that later), it is certainly a popular night market that has been favored by the locals for over 20 years. Just like every other Taiwan night markets, Rueifong Night Market does not only offer a wide selection of local snacks, but also packed with youth oriented and multi-dimensional delicacies due to the population of youngsters attracted by the nearby Shinkuchan Commercial Zone. Other than food stalls with local Taiwanese delicacies, different varieties of food such as Japanese’s hot and spicy fish roe, Salty and crispy mushroom, bacon cheese potato melt and Mongolian barbecue will also be found here, and certainly became one of the major selling point for Ruifeng Night Market. Rather than spreading out along the streets stretching down a road like other Night Markets, Rueifong was formed in a large rectangle in the size of a large city block containing over 500 stalls in total [ref]. If you like mixing with locals, that’s the place to go: very friendly atmosphere.
