Sunday, December 07, 2025

Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市)

Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市)

First time going to a night market in Taipei. This one was the Raohe market (Raohe Street, Songshan District, Taipei). Went a little wild with the food.

Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), da chang bao xiao chang  大腸包小腸
Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), sausage stall

First time trying 大腸包小腸. While the Chinese name translates into big intestine wraps little intestine, the outer layer isn't an intestine - it's made of glutinous rice. The garlic bits stuffed into it helps make the savoury sweet sausage easier to inhale in the tube of glutinous rice. Now that I've tried it, will probably never bother with them again.

Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), roast pork
Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), roast pork stall

There's a stall that has amazing thin sliced roasted pork belly. The fat readily melted in the mouth and those crackling was crunchy and not hard. One of the more memorable eats here.

Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), guava
Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), guava stall

The other thing I liked a lot was guava with the plum sauce. There's a spin the wheel with each purchase and we won a second bag of guava from that.

Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), squid fried rice
Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), squid fried rice stall

Squid fried rice - the rice was bad. Possibly the worst fried rice I've ever had. Squid was not bad. Am gonna call it out as the worst eat here as a reminder to self never to get anything from the stall again if we ever came back.

Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), braised stuff
Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), braised stuff
Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), braised stall

This stall did a variety of braises where you could pick your choice morsels and they'd pack it up with the braising sauce. Nice.

Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), oyster omelette
Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), oyster omelette stall

A stall selling oyster omelette. Just oyster and eggs, no batter. This was nice. Oyster was fat and tasted good.

Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), pandan kanom krok
Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), pandan kanom krok stall

This was pandan flavoured kanom krok. The pandan flavour was weak. 

Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), lu rou fan 卤肉饭
Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), stinky tofu 臭豆腐

First lu rou fan in Taiwan from this stop. I'm gonna just call it okay tasting because there wasn't anything about it that was outstanding. It levelled up to pretty good with the chilli. Stinky tofu was also okay-ish. Rocked with that salty bean sauce though.

Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), hu jiao bing
Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), hu jiao bing
Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市),  Fuzhou Pepper Buns

There're these pastries called hu jiao bing (胡椒餅) which are stuffed with peppered pork and spring onions or chives. This stall at Raohe market was suppose to be one of the better ones. Queue's long and moves pretty fast. Nice sesame flavour from the pastry and the fillings were definitely peppery. I think it's ok...meaning that while I didn't dislike it, I wasn't particularly impressed. Am unlikely to get them again if the opportunity presented.

Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市)
Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市)
Raohe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市)

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