Taipei Nightlife

Night markets are popular with Taiwanese and we had the opportunity visit three: Taipei, Taichung and Kaoshiung. Shilin night market is a popular night spot which opens until the wee hours. One section fo it sells local snacks and drinks and another, clothes and accessories.

Must tries in the food section include the crispy fried chicken cutlet (two thumbs up), sausage stuffed with glutinous rice, oyster omelette (not my cup of tea), teppanyaki seafood and meats, bubble tea and other desserts. Be ready to queue at popular stalls but IMHO, the wait worthwhile is the chicken cutlet.

Prices are targeted at locals as well and I didn't experience any rip offs.

Imagine an all you eat buffet but with alcohol instead, well it's alive and well in Taiwan, many nightclubs have an all you can drink policy. Pay about 600NT entrance and you can drink to your heart's content/kidneys' limit. Just don't get too legless, Taipei can be dodgy for noisy foreigners at night.

Guting area is a good area for nightlife, there are 2 good clubs here Roxy 99 and Waxy, on Wednesday Roxy does a very generous offer of free entry and 4 free drinks per person. Don't ask, just drink up and dance.

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Fareast International Hotel is one of the best hotels in Taipei. There offers several great restaurants for you. Marco Polo on the 38F which supported by Italian cook is Italian restaurant. There has great view to see Taipei city especially 101.

Great food + great view is the best joy.

Dress Code: Official. Please dress up

The top 1 night club in Taipei. Has two areas for the different music styles, Hip-Hop and trence, u can enjoy it in the same night and the same club.

Dress Code: Female: no slippers
Male:no slippers, tank top, short pants

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Taipei's Shilin Night Market is one of the most exciting night markets around. The Market is actually much closer to the Jiantan MRT station than the Shilin MRT station. One of the area's chief attractions is food- there is an indoor market filled with hundreds of small vendors, eaching selling delicious Taiwanese food, including chicken steak (jhi-pai), bubble milk tea (jhen-jhu nai cha), mango milk (man-guo niu nai), oyster noodles (oa mi-sua), and stinky tofu (chou do-fu), all very reasonably priced. There is a seperate shopping part of the night market, where it's possible to buy t-shirts, watches, fake designer goods, and almost anything else imaginable, at prices that range from extremely cheap to unreasonably expensive.

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There are several night markets in Taipei, and I think they are hands-down the best nighttime activity. They are sprawling mazes of covered alleyways, similar to the arcades and gallerias in Paris, but they are teeming with anything you could ever want! Of course there are acres of knickknacks and cheap goods for sale, but there are store-front massage parlors (legitimate, not seedy), herbalists, videos for sale, jewelry... to my Western eye it was all incredibly exotic. And food: buns, ribs, noodles, stuff you couldn't identify. I was in Taiwan for only one night (long story... there to give a lecture at a conference) and I went to the Huahsi Market with a couple of other guys by taxi. I cannot imagine having a better time. From the foot massages (I suspect the guy who did my massage was into martial arts, and must have had it in for me) to the snake soup (yes, it does taste like chicken), to the hole-in-the-wall noodle place where we had a late supper, those few hours were unforgettable. And isn't unforgettable the whole purpose of travel?

Dress Code: You probably shouldn't be nude. Other than that, anything goes.

It's great to see people dancing on the bar but watch out.
We visited recently and one of my friends had their wallet stolen.
The staff say it happens all the time ....
We were very disappointed since we have never had any trouble before in Taipei.
Advice: Leave your wallet at home or give Carnegies a miss.

Dress Code: Casual.