Wusheng, a market at night

Last night I walked to the Wusheng Night market, it was on the west side of Tainan and is about as far as I can walk in Tainan at night. It was a bust, as it was more of a "market at night", rather than a "night market". It was big, with lots of meat, fish, fruit and vegetables for sale but none of the carnival atmosphere of a night market. I'm glad the Da Dong real night market is only a half hour walk from my dorm.

The Da Dong market is three times a week and everyday in Tainan there might be 3 or 4 night markets. Because everyone has a motorcycle they can choose which one on any night. Similarly I think the vendors are independent business men and women and they'll go to where every the customers are.

But it was a good hike. I had the biggest and best baozhi I've ever had. It's steamed bread wrapping a meat ball. I ate them both before I took a picture, sorry. Next time.

That's the difference between living in a country and being a tourist. As a tourist you have a limited time and so you want to do everything, eat everything, see everything and buy everything before you go back. If you have the time, like me, there's really no hurry. If I see a good place to eat just after having a good meal, I just put that new place on the list of things to do. No worry that I'll miss something.


Next weekend is Zhong Qui Jie, the Mid Autumn Festival when the moon is the roundest and brightest of the year. One of the traditional dishes is Zongzi, it is sticky rice wrapped in a bamboo leave. Inside can be many fillings like pork, egg, peanuts, ... On the way back from the Wusheng market at night, I bought 2 at this side walk restaurant, they sold them with gravy, I swear it was the same gravy I've see on mashed potatoes. Actually I like hot sauce on my zongzi. This a container of zongzi.

These two pictures below were along the road on a sandwich board format. I don't know what's going on my but the pictures are intense.




















Here's my camera in Taiwan, it's working pretty well. But I still learning. It's about 2 inches by 3 inches, I carry it in my left front pocket. There are two features I wish it had:


1. Record sound without movie producing an MP3 file.
2. Record smells

There are plenty of sounds that I'd like to have you listen to: firecrackers, traffic, funeral music, temple music, ... but if I take a movie I have to line up a movie to match the sound.

The recording of smells, will probably be a technological way off. But there are smells like cho dou fu, flowers, sewers, ... that are unique to Taiwan.


This weekend I was brave enough to try three local fruits. Here they are before facing the knife. I don't know the names of any of them in either English or Chinese.










The brown one turned out to be a giant Asian pear. The orange one might be a persimmon? The green one seemed to be a small pamello.