Taipei Revisted 2011-Raohe Night Market (饶河夜市）& Artist uncle in XMD

Rao He Night Market is easily 1 of my favourite night market in Taipei though not as big as Shihlin, but it is exactly the smaller area makes it easier to navigate as compared to Shihlin.

To get here, we took TRA from Taipei Main station to Song Shan Station. After which, we followed the road signs to here, its around a 5min walk :)


Raohe Night market w/o Sign board

The stores are lined up in the middle of the road, with shops on the 2 sides too. But the interesting ones are the 1s in the middle. Consisting of food, clothes and misc items, you can be sure to find something to interest u as u walk in the market.

Twice I came here, I manage to buy some clothes. Not much, but still manage to buy even w/o going to Wu Fen Pu. Of course prices are not comparable as this is not a wholesale market. Then again, I am only interested in that 1 pc only.

The food selection here is great too..Finger foods like pop corn chickie, fried mushrooms/veggies/squids/crabs, cook food stalls like Fried Oyster/ Herbal pork ribs soups, the ever famous stinky fried tofu..The choices are so overwhelming that I do not know what to start eating with.

Crab legs

Pork ribs soup

In summary, this is what we ate..

1). 1pc of fried crab each..Which is not fantastic at all in our opinions..

2). A bowl of herbal pork ribs soup which is super nice. The only downside is, the pork ribs are pretty meatless.

3). A chickie cutlet shared among us and a pac of fried squid. We took quite a long time to finish this as we were too full from the snacks earlier..

After all the eating, we proceed to find the vendor selling the shirts tat Mr Love want..We had no trouble finding her as she once told us her stall will be always in front of the big cross. There is a Catholic center inside the building behind her stall. Mr Love brought 3 from her this time. Which is consider a lot by his standards.

We decided to call it a day and head back to our hotel. After all, we did not have a good rest since last nite.

Upon reaching XMD, we came across the spray paint painter tat Uncle C mentioned. Stood there for nearly half an hr to watch him paint..We were both very impress by his skills. Brought 3 paintings as instructed by Uncle C. I was actually thinking whether to get 2 for our house. But did not in the end..Oh well…

Uncle painting

Final touches

1st painting I brought

I was searching for the tasty grilled corn I brought the other time here in XMD but to my dismay, I think the vendor come here any more…sad, we retreat bak to our hotel after tat to prepare for tmr’s activity.

2nd painting-Serenity