Taiwan Travel Diary #18: Ningxia nightmarket

Hey everyone~ this will be a really short blog post, but with lots of foodporn involved.

So a while a go, I visited Ningxia nightmarket, and there's lots of delicious food to try.

I didn't take too many photos since it was quite crowded, but let me tell you how to get there first:

寧夏夜市

Take the red line to Shuanglian Station.

Get out of exit #1

Head west down Minsheng road until you hit Ningxia road.

In case you can't find it, ask others for help . If you don't speak chinese just show them the chinese name above and they'll most likely will still help you find it ^^

Onto the food~

The first thing we ate were delicious steamed dumplings, only around 50NTD for a serving.

One thing that makes Ningxia quite special , even though it's one of the smaller nightmarkets in Taipei is the fact that almost all food stalls have seats available.

Yay for being able to sit down while enjoying your food!

The next snack we got was this fried baozi and wow was it delicious. As you can see by the model above, it has shrimps and eggs and more seafood inside instead of the usual meat filling.

Our next snack was not even Taiwanese, oops.

Okonomiyaki~

I really like Okonomiyyaki, and this one tasted great. 

We shared all the dishes to be able to try more, and this portion is perfect for two people.

Those are, unfortunately, already all the photos I took at Ningxia.

But here's some more foodporn, this time from Gongguan:

These pastries are usually pretty famous in Yilan, and so, so delicious.

Normally there's a long queue in front of this stall, but at the time I went there with my roommate we were lucky enough to not have to wait at all.

It's filled with spring onions and has a light peppery taste, super delicious snack!

We also got some Tapioca shaved ice there.

The shaved ice was actually vanilla flavoured, instead of the normal milk flavour which was a nice surprise.

That's it for today, sorry that this post is so short. Next time I visit Ningxia nightmarket I'll take more photos. Hope you enjoyed it.

Which snack looks the most delicious? Tell me in the comments below.

Love, Lydia

Taiwan Travel Diary #17: Taipei 101 and Longshan Temple

Hey everyone~

I'm so late with updating my blog posts that I accidentally switched them around ;-;

This one was supposed to be finished before my post about Shida nightmarket...oops. So much for organizing.

Anyways~

About a month ago I joined my Korean classmate and her friend on a trip to Taipei 101 and Longshan temple.

If you want to go all the way up to the 93rd floor to have a nice view over Taipei you need to pay 500NTD as an entrance fee. Most of Taipei 101 holds business rooms, so security is tight there and you can only enter the building if you have a ticket for the viewing plattform...or, you avoid that expensive fee like we did.

So here's a small trick: You can also enter Taipei 101 and go up to the 35th floor if you make a reservation for the Starbucks there. You can make that reservation online, and then enter the building and call their Starbucks. One of the workers will come get you, and you can go up to the 35th floor with them.

Obviously you will have to buy something there, but hey, where else can you drink your Starbucks coffee with such a nice view in front of you?

We first got some cakes there.

And frappuccinos.

Because it was Frappuccino Happy Hour, we got 5 drinks for the 3 of us.

 Afterwards we headed over to Taipeis famous Longshan temple.

It was pretty nice and quiet there, most people were praying.

Right next to the temple is another one of Taipeis famous nightmarkets:

Huaxi nightmarket.

I didn't like this nightmarkeet too much though, there weren't that many interesting looking dishes to be tried.

We tried oyster omelette there for the first time, and I gotta admit , i don't like it too much.

It just feels too...glibbery, too soft.

There's one thing this nightmarket is famous for: snake blood alley.

Yes you can actually drink snake blood there. And eat other things..we didn't try any of that, but they had snakes there for sure.

So that's it for today, hope you enjoyed this post.

Did you visit Taipei 101 and Longshan temple before, and if not, would you like to?

Love, Lydia 

Taiwan Travel Diary #16: Shida nightmarket

Hey everyone~

Today I'll show you one of the nightmarkets in Taipei that is, surprisingly, not mainly famous for it's food.

Shida nightmarket (師大夜市)

How to get there:

Take subway line #3 (Green Line) to Taipower Building Station. 

Get out of exit 3, turn right twice and then you should reach Shida Road (師大路)

The market is along that road.

Shida nightmarket is named after the second best university in Taiwan, Taiwan National Normal University (called "Shida" ). Therefore it mostly caters to university students, and most of the stalls there sell fashionable, affordable clothes.

A lot of the shops sell "japanese" or "korean" style clothing. Which was probably bought in Wufenpu, but most clothes here are sold as "imported" from Korea or Japan in order to sell them more expensively. Thus, a lot of the stores include Korean in their names,

One store I really like there is Glad King:

The owner designs a lot of the items there himself, and they're pretty hilarious. I bought a T-shirt from them once, and it was pretty expensive (600NTD) but unique.

A lot of the designs feature Alpacas, such as Alpaca minions, or Captain Alpaca.

After shopping, my friends and I were quite hungry so we headed over to Ximen to get some food.

We ate Mango Bingsu first, but as I was still hungry I got some Udon afterwards.

That's it for today, hope you enjoyed this post~

Would you go shopping at Shida nightmarket?

Tell me in the comments below! :D

Love, Lydia