Taipei Nightlife

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There are seven night markets at Taipei Shih (eg. ShiLin, YongHe, ShiDa, RaoHe,....etc). Unique street food can be found in different market. Do not miss it, you will regret!

Shilin Night Market http://www.taipei.gov.tw/Einglish (MRT Danshui line to Chientan Station, or take bus 216, 217, 218, 203, 224, 266, 269, 277, 280, 308, or 310 to the MRT Chientan Station, Min Chuan University, or Xiao Bei (Hsiao Pei) Street.)

Dress Code: Jeans + t-shirt

"The Zone" in Taipei has a lot of bars where you can drop a lot of money very quickly. Many of the bars are the type where you will be joined by hostesses as soon as you sit dow. The job of these women is to pour your beer, play jenga with you and generally engage in small talk and faux-flattery. Of course, eventually they will be persuading you to buy them drinks too and before you know it you'll walk out of there having spent a lot more money than you expected. Many people assume these women are prostitutes -- they are not. But they are good business people and they will say what you want to hear in order to get you to but that one extra drink for them!
That's why, in "The Zone" I recommend Malibu West. It is the best place you can go without all the hassle. You can drink with your friends or play without any univited (read:expensive) company.

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Haha, when u don't have places to go at night, why not try the pool hall. It's cheap and fun too. The only thing that bugs me is sometimes it can be very smokey inside because you can smoke in the pool hall.

Dress Code: whatever you want! but I guess just casual is fine.

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Nightmarket is Taiwanese culture. Almost every city, town and countryside has its nightmarkets. Taipei city has many, such as Hsu-Lin, Hsu-Da, Lao-Ho, Liao-Lin, Jin-Mei, Ton-Jua, Hua-Si etc. Among them Hsu-Lin nightmarket is the biggest one.

What make Hsu-Lin Nightmarket special: big field, delicious & cheap food, sensitive fashion (clothes, shoes and accessories), pet street and fortune teller lane.

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Hsu-Lin Nightmarkts most food-stands are collected in a big markt house. Food & Drink: big fried chicken, big pans cover small cookies, fried oysters, B.B.Q, catfish herbal soup, squik or seafood thick soup, chicken rice, baked coffin (well, actaully made of toast), stinking to-fu, tempura, fried rice or noodles, eel-fish noodles, huge sausages, rice-cake, fried vegetable, stewed pork rice, fish ball soup, tarco balls, bubble ices, fruit milk (the most famous one: papaya milk), fruit shaker, Ei-Yu jelly etc.

On streets in that area there are some other food & drinks: twins (like donut), baked cow-tongue biscuit, chinese bread, brat rice-cake, spring-onion pan cake, pork-blood rice-cake, fried chest-nut, meat ball, spring roll, star fruit juice, fried stuffs, stewed stuffs, hot-dog, Indian roll, fruit, wax/white gourd, peper pork bread etc.

Dress Code: CLOTHES & ACCESSORIES
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On streets there are many shops which sell qualitative clothes with brands as ones in department stores. However, they are also some shops and stands that sell ok clothes (some are copied), the quality could be good or awful, but its price is from 50-100NTD only.

**I like one shop on the main street mostly. The shop offers exotic, national, special design clothes and accessories. The most are from India, Nepal and Thailand. I recommend the colored skirts, exotic silver ear-rings and Indian deer-leather bags (costs 390NTD only).**

The accessories catch up the fasion as well. Cups, hear rings, rings, necklaces and barcets. These accessories cost not much and are girls' love.

Jeans, sneakers, slippers, casual style, beach look, spicy girl mini skirt, heavy or no make-up You can dress whatevery you like :-) NO PROBLEM, no one will notice you because everyone looks for food there. Everytime you go to Hsu-Lin Nightmarket, you see new fahsion and new food. Hsu-Lin is Japanese tourists' must see spot, and you shoudn't miss it.

Shi Lin night market is the biggest in Taipei city where we have a big amount of food and fashion (accessories and clothes) stands, a pet street and a fortune teller street etc. Neverthless food is the most well-known because we can find out almost all kinds of Taiwanese snacks here. It's a great place for local people to grab delicious food at low price and for foreigners to have exotic food adventure.

In addition, the lamps of stands make the enviroment so bright. Even it's night, we feel like in day in the market. It will be definitely a special and fresh experience for you!

P. S. For detailed pictures of snacks please see my Taipei travelogues.

One of the biggest night market in taipei... lots of famous foods like unqiue pancake, sausage, hot and cold dessert there.

Shihlin Night Market covers a large area. When one walks in the turning lanes and alleys, you would often find something unexpected.

I'm allergic to smokes, so I hate going to places that allows people smoking indoor. Somehow, in Taiwan, you can smoke indoors if you don't feel like smoking outside in the cold. So I barely hang out with my friends in the bars, clubs anymore.
Maybe it's because it's been so long, so I decided to hang out with some friends that I didn't see for a long time. They picked a very nice little bar. I was impressed. People still smoke inside the bar but it didn't seem to be too smokey. I had a very good time there chatting with the good friends. No too noisy so you don't have to yell and shout.

Dress Code: casual- no need to dress up.

This outlet locates in Tian-Mu, where there are most foreigners in Taipei. You will be surrounded by the exotic feeling. If you are lucky enough, you can see some singers sitting next to you, and we are one of them.
This outlet sells nothing different from other ones; but its atmosphere is very friendly andcomfortable. Lovers keep on loving; friends keep on chatting; families keep on enjoying. You can choose where to sit, in-doors or outside.

Dress Code: No...But dun be a sloppy person!! That kind of people are always not welcome enveywhere.