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Taipei’s Street Food Banquet

Hot pot at the night market.
Ears of steamed corn can be found all over the city.
Grilled corn in night market.
Skewered fish balls, sliced meat, squid rings and vegetables, all ready to be grilled or cooked in boiling broth.
Shilin is the biggest and most famous one of the Taipei's 25 night markets.
Medicinal soup made from ingredients like ginseng and wolfberries.
Braised pig parts; nose, tail and everything in between.
Well-brined cubes of bean curd are cooked in a hot pot with intestines in a dish known as "stinky stinky pot".
Cubes of bean curd that are fried until pungent and then served on skewers.
Typical night market is one at Raohe Street with a single, densely packed lane in the Song Shan district with an ornate Buddhist temple at one end.
Raohe Street night market.
In Taipei, food is everywhere. These pork buns boiled in a stall at fabric market.
Cuttlefish soup in night market.
Lu Rou Fan, a stewed pork dish served over rice.
If you're out late enough at a night market, you might as well stick around for breakfast; a good choice is Yonghe Soy Milk King, which serves a comforting meal of hot soy milk and you tiao, a kind of airy fried cruller, no matter the hour.

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