Taiwan Night Market - Eating Taiwanese Street Food in Taipei along Raohe Street (饒河夜市)
When it comes to eating Taiwanese street food in Taipei your hands down best bet is to check out one of the many Taiwan Night Market. In this street food challenge, we head over to Raohe Street Night Market (饒河夜市) to sample as many tasty and cheap bites to eat as possible. Locally Taiwanese street food is known as Xiaochi (小吃) and you'll find no shortage of delectable Taiwanese food here in the evenings whether you're craving sweet or savory food items. Compared to Shilin Night Market I actually kind of preferred Raohe Night Market (to visit take the MRT to Songshan Station松山車站) because it focused more on food as opposed to shopping. In our opinion, it is one of the best places to eat street food in Taipei, Taiwan and below you'll find a list of everything we sampled: 1) Black Pepper Bun 胡椒餅 "Hu Jiao Bing" 胡椒餅 2) Egg tart 蛋撻 dàn tǎ (Mandarin), dan that 3) Daifuku moachi (Chinese: 麻糍; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: moâ-chî) Hokkien and mashu (Chinese: 麻糬; pinyin: má-shû) 4) Egg waffle 雞蛋仔 gai daan jai 5) Smoking cookie and ice cream 6) Fried Chicken Steak 大雞排 7) Bubble tea 波霸奶茶 - bōbà nǎichá GEAR WE USE Olympus OM-D E-M5 II: amzn.to/1OchS7t Canon G7X: amzn.to/1YdjsYX Olympus 14-150mm II Lens: amzn.to/1Y79zeM Rode Video Mic GO: amzn.to/1WDKtVM Joby Gorilla Pod: amzn.to/1PgoY5F SanDisk 16GB Extreme Pro: amzn.to/25KEErs SOCIAL MEDIA & TRAVEL BLOGS AUDREY: blog: thatbackpacker.com/ instagram: www.instagram.com/thatbackpacker/ facebook: www.facebook.com/thatbackpacker twitter: twitter.com/ThatBackpacker SAMUEL: blog: nomadicsamuel.com/ facebook: www.facebook.com/nomadicsamuel twitter: twitter.com/NomadicSamuel instragram: www.instagram.com/nomadicsamuel/ Taiwan Night Market - Eating Taiwanese Street Food in Taipei along Raohe Street (饒河夜市) Travel Food Video Transcript: Greetings from Taipei, Taiwan. Another day and another night market. And we brought our appetite. Today we are visiting the Raohe Night Market (饒河夜市) and they are renown for their street food. If you want to have street food this is the one market you need to visit. And earlier this week we visited Shilin market (士林夜市) where we got to try a few different treats. Yeah. But we're on the lookout for more Taiwanese street food (Xiaochi - 小吃). It is all about the food tonight. Let's go eat. Yeah, so we're trying a pork bun (胡椒餅) that was cooked in the oven. And this is just freshly made so really exciting. It is like pipping hot. And it was cooked in what resembled like one of those Indian tandoori ovens where the bread just sticks to the side. What is next? Okay, next we're having something sweet so we stopped at Anna's egg tart (蛋撻). And these are like the miniature egg tarts (蛋撻) that you might find in Portugal or Hong Kong or Macau. Except these are like mini bites that you can just pop. Okay. Sweet. Yeah. The red beans obviously has some sugar added to it. And if I had to guess I think it is something the consistency is sort of like a rice cake on the outside. Do you think it is like a miniature mochi ball (麻糍 - 麻糬). So this next snack was purchased solely for its cute factor. Let's take a look in the the bag. They're like these little egg waffles (雞蛋仔) or pancakes shaped like a cartoon. So here I've got Sponge Bob Square Pants. Please put the whole cookie deep in your mouth and chew it. So what are you having Audrey? It is smoking. Smoking cookie. I have to put this whole thing in my mouth. Alright. Woah! It is smoking out of your mouth. Haha. You look like a dragon. So you probably just saw me try a smoking cookie. We also got some ice cream from the same place. This is called Smoking Molecule ice cream. I got the bubble tea (波霸奶茶) flavor and this is the bubble tea sauce in a syringe. An injection of it. An injection. Let me inject that. He said do it slowly. There we go. That looks good. And it has the pearls. This is bubble tea (波霸奶茶) which I love. Let's see is this going to make me smoke as well? Like this ice cream is super cold. A lot of fun. It is called Cooler Bear (酷樂熊). Yeah. Definitely check This is the chicken steak (大雞排) and this thing is a behemoth. Like look how big this is. And look how thick it is. I wanted to order bubble tea (波霸奶茶) with milk and I got the original without milk so it is just black tea with tapioca balls. But it is not what I wanted so I'm so disappointed. But anyways that was fun. We ate really well so I would definitely say this is a market worth checking out if you're in Taipei (臺北市). So if you want to check out this really cool night market in Taipei, Taiwan you're going to come to Songshan station (松山車站) and then you're going to take exit one. Yeah, and you turn left. There is a huge temple at the entrance. This is part of our Travel in Taiwan video series showcasing Taiwanese food, Taiwanese culture and Taiwanese cuisine. Music in this video courtesy of Audio Network
