Guanghua Night Market — Attraction in Kaohsiung

The pedestrian roads are not for pedestrians, but forever occupied by shops and restaurants. Adjacent to them, vehicles always occupy big parts of both lanes of the roads. Pedestrians thus have no choice but walk on the roads competing space with vehicles throughout the entire market. It’s dangerous! I feel worried every time I came here. It’s not a place to relax neither nor chill. Eventually I don’t go there anymore. Such a miserable urban planning and management! 2 stars are for a few good...

Terrible place in a way it is dangerous to ride or walk there, scooters park on the road, shop-stands cannot fit on a sidewalk, so that most of them are on the roadway, which makes it dangerous for both drivers and passersby. Cars find it hard to fit in between scooters and shop-stands. Reminds me a chaos of traffic jam and food fair. Also can any food be healthy if it is inevitably covered by so much exhaust gas from the engines...

Some of the merchants are great, but this review is about the layout of the market: it sucks. The stalls block the sidewalks with boxes and supplies, and then park their carts way out in the road. You'll be competing with scooters screeching to a halt in front of the vendors (and trying not to get hit). Most other traditional markets back things up a bit to avoid some of the pollution/noise + make it more...