Meres: January 2007

Just to prove that we did go to non-food oriented markets. Here is the flower market happens every Sunday and is huge - going on for literally miles.

Now we need more food - a typical taiwanese breakfast (or midnight snack or anytime, really): poridge with yam and small dishes of tofu, pickled green beans, squid, greens,

New day - New market

Split duck displaying its muscular-skeletor system

More market food

Fish cakes broiled

and yummy

Grilled octapus - tough but tasty

Sheila in the Jiufen market

With or without Cilantro

Okay this one sounded pretty weird to me. I loved it so much that we had to search all future night markets for the "Shaved Peanut brittle stand".
The guy in using a wood planer to shave a huge block of super dense peanut brittle. Shavings get thrown onto a spring roll skin, topped with taro ice cream and a touch of genius cilantro - REALLY TASTY and fresh: (Oa-bing run-bing)

Calligraphy brushes booth

Back to work at the Jiufen Night Market

The poo girls digging into the first dish: taro and yam ball soup

Steamed fishballs and tofu

Quick After dinner walk on rocky northern shore

Mom eats Spiny Lobster

Fresh yum, live caught, butter roaster lobster

Fresh selected seafood- yum

Orange Crab (ranius ranius?) super delicious and meaty. Fights back even after it is dead though - bass gashed his thumb open on the shell trying to get meat out.
Spiny Lobster
Whole Rockfish
Atsai (Green Stuff)