The biggest night market in Tainan is the HuaYuan YeShi over on the western side of Tainan on Saturday and Sunday nights. It starts about dusk but by 8PM it is "stall to stall" people. You don't have to walk, you just shuffle along with the rest of the crowd.
As I see it there are three areas for the Night Market:
1. Carnival games
2. Things for sale
3. Food for sale
Today I'll do some of the games as the Night Market. There's lot of balloons to pop for prizes and ping pong balls to throw into holes. But for some Taiwanese this will be as close as they ever get to a gun.
Some of the guns are very life like:
I didn't see my favorite of fishing for tropical fish with a paper net but they had a similar game of fishing for shrimp with a bit of food at the end of small pole and line.
While I was watching I didn't see anyone catch a shrimp, the shrimp must have already had their supper. But that's OK you can buy some shrimp from the vendor and cook them right there on a charcoal brazier..
The night market sounds like fun. Kind of like going to the mall and cruising but with wholesome games. Your photos show people with jackets on. Does it get cold at night?
ReplyDeleteIt's warming up in Tainan but most(90%) of th people arrive by motorcycle. There are huge parking lots of motorcycles around the night market. On the motorcycle you creat you own wind, so the wind chill factor makes it seem colder than it is. But it is still unseasonably cold in taiwan this year.
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