Night Markets - A Way of Life

In Asian countries, night markets are a way of life. In these night markets, one can find vendors selling all kinds of goods. However, the main attraction is the food.

Entrance to the Night Market

You can find local food offered by different stalls, each specializing in either one dish or a variety of cooked dishes.

One of the Many Stalls 

Usually it is the aroma of grilled food that makes one salivate.

Sausages

Fresh Sea Food

You can tell if the food is good by the queues of people waiting patiently in line for their turn. Then you see them strolling along eating the food they had just purchased. Everything is so leisurely, despite the crowds.

Crowds Queuing

People come out at night to eat and buy things at the night market, where the prices are lower than those in the high street. It can be fun to be among so many people, listening to their jabbering and watching their happy faces. 

Crowds eating their purchased food

Strolling in the Night Market

Tourists like us peer at the offerings of many stalls before deciding which food to try.  The Taiwanese and the Cantonese people in Hong Kong like the “Chau Tow Foo” or Smelly Soy Bean Cake. However, I found the fried smelly tow foo too stinky to contemplate trying it out.

My sister and I settled for sweet potato wedges and chips. They tasted most delicious.

Sweet Potato Wedges & Chips