CnC Living Travel Log: Food and fun at Taipei Shilin Night Market

Gotta love a place where you can find all kinds of food and random shoes late at night.

That place in Taipei is the Shilin Night Market in the Shilin district in Taipei - this is the largest and most famous night market in Taiwan.  This winding area in Taipei features a variety of food vendors with some small vendors selling everything from massage heat packs to hat situated on the side.
It's kinda interesting how they have food vendors in front of old temples.

In addition, you can find quite a few retailers open late (they open about 4 pm and close about midnight or 1 am) selling mostly outerwear or shoes.  Seriously there were a dizzying array of boots and pumps, many for about $30. 
Mr. Gadget also found some Lacoste shoes for about $60 (better priced than in the US or UK).

But really, we were there for the food.

The rough categories are

Then we have grilled goodies, including sausages

and corn (Taiwanese LOVE grilled corn)

...fried foods:
We started with some fried octopus (they had a variety of seasonings including a wasabi salt).  Yum!

Fried chicken breast (split breast so watch out for some bones at the bottom!) is famous here too.

...desserts/refreshments including a variety of jellies which at one stall were for some reason called frog eggs(is that supposed to be enticing?!)

These were the toppings (tapioca and aiyu jelly) for a fresh tory dessert.

  

and misc, including a variety of stone baked buns

and hot noodles (we only had medium hot - DELICIOUS but pretty darn spicy)

Definitely stop by and eat at the Shilin Night Market if you're in Taiwan!