Go local in Taipei — Dongmen Market and Dihua Street ... | dongmen market
Onehastobeheretoappreciate theatmosphere—sounds,sights,crowds,smells—andhundredsofmom-and-popstalls.Todaywevisitedtwoplaces.Thefirstone,DongmenMarket,isjustafewstepsfromourhotel.Alabyrinthofpassagewayssometimesinsideabuildingandsometimesbetweenbuildings.Onceinawhileascooterorabikewouldcomeby.Oneofthevegetablesstalls(DongmenMarket)Atraditionalmorningmarketwherethelocalsgotohavebreakfastorbuytheirdailygroceriesandcookedfood.Looklikeweweretheonlyvisitorstherethismorning.AndsounlikethetypicalofT...
One has to be here to appreciate the atmosphere—sounds, sights, crowds, smells—and hundreds of mom-and-pop stalls. Today we visited two places. The first one, Dongmen Market, is just a few steps from our hotel. A labyrinth of passageways sometimes inside a building and sometimes between buildings. Once in awhile a scooter or a bike would come by.
One of the vegetables stalls (Dongmen Market)A traditional morning market where the locals go to have breakfast or buy their daily groceries and cooked food. Look like we were the only visitors there this morning. And so unlike the typical of Taiwaneses who line up for everything, polite, soft spoken: here they are loud, pushy, all trying to get the freshest stuff before they are gone or in a hurry to finish their shopping. Fascinating to watch…
One of the chicken stalls (Dongmen Market)Tofu and more varieties of tofu (Dongmen Market)A fishmonger at Dongmen MarketUsing an old-fashioned scale (Dongmen Ma...