TODAY in Taipei I made it to an "official" night market. It is very near a university and it was Saturday night so, ... CROWDED. We got onto the main drag and shuffled along interminably to get 5 feed down the road. Thankfully it was not a hot sweltering night, but I just don't understand why it is like this when the market is there EVERY night and it sells the SAME stuff (nothing interesting) and actually offered very little in the way of food stalls.
We were expecting to have dinner there and were looking forward to something called a Small Biscuit wrapped in a big biscuit- or something to that effect. It is actually not a biscuit at all but a sausage inside another sausage. We never found this delicacy. (Good thing too, Chinese sausages are not exactly healthy treats- they are sweet-ish and very more like a thin chorizo (but not spicy) or salami (but sweet).
We ended up eating at place famous for its soup. We had Chicken soup with chicken and weird vegetable, chicken soup with herbal medicine and chicken, and herbal medicine soup with a chicken stock base with noodles. Quite yummy actually.
Since it is near a university, at the market's fringes one can find lots of cafés full of students studying hard on their laptops. These small independent cafes are of course either über hip or painfully cute. It is an interesting mix of crowded pushing and quiet spaces that I don't think other university areas in other countries quite have!
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