Shilin Night Market
Sprawling night bazaar of street-food stalls, games, and shops centered on an underground food court.
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This guide to Shilin Night Market in Taipei traces the decade-long fight over its future: a century of street stalls born beside a Keelung River wharf, torn down in 2002, then relocated into a 2011 plan for an air-conditioned basement food court with room for only ninety-four of more than one hundred fifty vendors. One oyster omelet seller called the move groundbreaking; others were certain their regulars would never follow them down a stairwell.
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