Monday, July 27, 2015

revisited/night market: i strongly recommend RAOHE NIGHT MARKET



Raohe night market is one of the most popular and oldest night markets in Taipei. A short subway or taxi ride from Xinyi or DaAn districts, Raohe has two bright signs marking the front and back main entrances of the night market.

I had what I thought was some mediocre food the last time I visited Raohe with some out of town friends, so it's been a few years since I've had the urge to revisit. Thanks to some new friends from Singapore who chose it as our meeting spot, I fell in love with the popular flaky pepper buns, the grilled oyster mushrooms, mango shaved ice and found a vendor serving one of my favorite night market snacks, the ice cream "burrito" with peanut candy shavings and cilantro. 

The pepper buns at the entrance of the Raohe night market and can be spotted by a winding queue of people waiting and a team of quick fingered people wrapping minced pork and green onions in doughy balls to be cooked in tandoor like ovens. The result is a pepper bun that is too hot to hold, a crunchy crust on the bottom and peppery and sweet meatball inside the bun. It's worth coming to Raohe just for this. 






Here's a glance at some of the other stands I spotted at Raohe. What's your favorite thing to eat at this night market? 







 




Rubber duck cotton candy 


Get your Taiwanese sausage from this vendor.. The first one we got from another vendor was so bad- pretty much just fat inside a sausage casing and the first time I had to throw something away that I bought at the night market. Taiwanese sausage should be firm and slightly chewy, on the sweet side and not all fat!!! 









Yeaaa. Favorite! 












3 comments:

Wendy said...

There's an ai yu bing vendor there who has been there for years that I love to frequent whenever I make it back to Taipei. Thanks for these suggestions! We're going in October and eager to try out some new places.

Anonymous said...

OMG! Did they add anything else into the watermelon smoothie/juice? That looked SO GOOD!!!

-Z

joanh said...

wendy: have a great trip in October! I'll be sure to look for the ai yu bing next time!

z: i don't think so!! watermelons in taipei are so sweet!

:)