Binjiang Market — Attraction in Taipei

Traditional Taiwanese grocery street market.

Doesn’t limit yourself to just vendors inside, there is another bunch of vendors outside selling similar groceries like fruits, vegetables, seafood, meat and ready to eat cooked foods. Fun to buy something and eat while you are shopping and looking around.

There is a free public bathroom before you exit to the street. Use this one before you leave, there isn’t any other available later on.

If you’re lucky you’ll see very low flying commercial plane landing at the airport nearby. I saw a few but was unable to quickly take those photos. The locals didn’t even...

Best market in Taipei city. If you can't speak Chinese I suggest you buy only on places that advertise their prices. Even then there could be large difference in price for same item among sellers. Be also aware that in Taiwan measure for weight is jin (斤)

1 jin = 16 liang = 600 grams = 1.32 pound

1 liang = 37.5 grams = 1.32 ounce

1 kg = 1.66666666 jin

If you see vegetables or fruits in plastic plates with price next to it means that's price for what is inside plate regardless how...

If you're not into getting up super early to head to the fish markets and piers in Keelung or the Taipei Fish Wholesale Market, come here. Live lobster, crab, fish, shrimp, eel, sashimi, abalone and other exotic fare. They have it all and definitely at lower prices than than Addiction Aquatic. I usually get live lobster and abalone for sashimi, Thailand shrimp, assorted sashimi, sashimi grade scallops, or frozen...