YongLe Market — Attraction in Tainan

Tainan Yongle Market is now a part of Guohua Street Commercial Circle. On the horizontal axis, it is parallel with Ximen Road and Hai'an Road. On The vertical axis, it crosses Youai Street, Zhongzheng Road, Zhengxing Street, and starting from the Baoan temple and Puji Temple.

Yongle Market is named after Yongle Din in the Japanese occupation era, between Yongle Street (now the western section of Minzu Road) and Changle Street (now the western section of Minquan Road). The old generation called it the Thief Market. In the 1960s, a early morning fire burn down the Thief Market and then it was rebuilt as a civilian apartment and a general shopping mall. It has been built for about 60 years, and the interior is still slightly messy. In the early days, the rooftop of building was wide and open to the public. The children’s kite play, running, and the Mid-Autumn Festival had a good place to enjoy the hot pot.

In history, this is the area of five Ports, which connects the Guandi Port and located at outside of the West gate Wall. It used to be a general market but not prosperous. Because of The Rising of the business district of the Guohua Street, the snack bar has been passed down with the younger. Bowls, carambola soup, and beancurd are all heard and transmitted. Shennong Street, Shuixian Temple, Puji temple and Hai'an Road are all in the nearby, which will not be described...

When you're in the market do try the classic treat, non fried spring roll, it's so refreshing. You'll struggle to find a rubbish bin after you have finished it though, so be careful holding on to the plastic bag, as it'll have water from the roll accumulated down at the bottom. There are many shops worth trying, not even shown on google map, so just keep walking down this street for at least 15min. In the evening, the area beyond the market becomes a mini night market, well lite & with a clean and spacious toilet, so definitely worth a look if you are keen to experience night market but find them either too far, dirty or inconvinent for...

I loved local markets, especially those on Taiwan as their produce tends to be very local, farmed/caught within 200km of the stalls. You can also see the various food stalls practicing their decade old craft to produce delightful local treats.

We had the large portion noodle soup with dumplings & fishball for NT$105 which is filling for 2 adults. I also witnessed a stall making Bao Ping skin and the vegetable wrap that it is used for cost NT$60 for the regular white one & NT$65 for my the green wrap. I wished I stayed at a place that has a kitchen so I can cook some of the awesome seafood from the...