Ningxia Night Market, Taipei

Ningxia Road at its Pingyang Street corner on a June night in 2023, with food carts running down the middle of the street and shops on either side. Ningxia is a compact, food-first market where locals outnumber souvenir hunters, and several of its stalls appeared in the Michelin Guide's early Bib Gourmand selections for Taipei. The queue to join is Liu Yu Zai for deep-fried taro balls, some filled with salted egg yolk and pork floss; Yuan Huan Pien has been frying oyster omelets here since 1965.