Zhongxiao Road Night Market — Attraction in Taichung

忠孝路觀光夜市 / zhong xiao lu guan guang ye shi in English we call Zhongxiao Road Night Market is a one long road in Taichung, Taiwan where the are a lot of food stall and store in the night. This night market only provides variant of food, you can't find fashion item, souvenir, etc here. The night market is quite simple where it is consisting of one road with food stalls and stores in our left and right site. Since car and motorycle can pass this road, we need to be careful when walking and keep noticing the traffic light.

At this night market, I had my drink at 50 岚 / 50 lan (for more detail, you could read my older post about 50 lan at Zhongxiao Road Night Market). And also for dinner, based on the recommendation from my sister's friend who studies in Taichung, we eat something that is quite unique for us. Firstly, we could choose freely the topping that is similar in making hotpot / shabu-shabu, such as meat, meatball, sausage, noodle, beehon, and many more. Then, it will be cooked in stir-frying style with its sweet sauce. Tastes good! One of the recommended food to try when you are...

A night market, serving the local community, this market is midsized, linear and runs about four blocks in length. Multiple restaurants add to the variety and if you happen to be in the area, drop by.

Though the map lists hours starting at 3PM, none of the vendor were set up the Sunday I visited. I returned later at about 8PM to find them open and spent a little over an hour here, walking a few laps.

Would I go out of my way to come here, considering they have shorter hours compared to Yizhong or Hanxi, no. Logistically, one would have to leave the others during prime time to come here. Yizhong is open by mid afternoon and runs all night. Hanxi is up and running by 6PM and is open till 1AM.

Since I did want to check out as many night markets as I can, I hopped on a scooter and ride the 10 minutes here, before retiring...

There are not that too many choices but the few ones I tried were really good!

This black tea shop was a blockbuster for a reason but ordering can be quite challenging for non-Chinese speakers even with the help of Google Translate. Thanks to a nice local, I manager to order a a large black tea, but sadly, no boba.

The Xiao Long Bao across the street was also really good! The size was just right and a single order of 8 pcs will definitely tied you up for the night.

It was a great place to eat, just be prepared for the language barrier as it will definitely cause delay and a bit of...