I-Chung night market

If a foreigner comes to Taichung, there’s no doubt that I will take them to the best market in Taichung, the I-Chung. It is famous for various street vendors selling a wide diversity of different foods, from finger foods, drinks, sweets, to sit-down dishes. In I-Chung night market, one can also find fried chicken fillet, refreshing fruit ices, and much more.

Just by taking bus or taxi, you can easily get there. Most of the bus path passes the I-Chung because lots of students go there for cram-school. The bus stop lies in front of another school, named Taichung Institute of Technology. Walking straight for less than a minute, you will see the noted school, I-Chung, where I was in a year ago. In the rush time of about six o’clock, you might be astounded by crowds of students rushing to the cram-school tall building, “Swei-Li building.” The resources of after-school-education almost all gather here. So students get no choice but to come here for further study after school, which might be a weird phenomenon for you.
However, it is one of the reasons why the I-Chung is prosperous and vigorous. Students are one genre of their major clients.

Pearl milk Tea or Bubble Tea, which you might hear a lot, has dominated the majority of foreigner drink market. Everyone who comes to Taiwan should not lose it. It originated from Taichung, the city you are right now in, and soon blew out to be a triumph, nearly every drink vendors sell it. The beverage is made from little tapioca balls that are boiled in black sugar and dropped in the milk tea. The tapioca balls are the special feature of the tea. You may have been eaten milk tea, which is not rare to you at all. But you will be pleasantly surprised how the tapioca balls feature the milk tea. When you suck through the tube, you can see black balls coming up, rolling into you mouth, and then you will start chewing it with instinct. At the same moment, you will be startled, “how could the milk tea be so delicious when there are tapioca balls!”

Stinky tofu is notorious for its strange odor to any foreigner who has never eaten it before. It’s usually treated fried, with pickles surround it, for the acidity could moderate the food oily smell. If you really do not want to eat STINKY tofu, I will not force you. But if you ask me for advice whether to eat it or not, I will recommend you eat it. The crispy and saucy taste will certainly reminds you of Taiwan after years.

Super Size Huge Chicken Cutlet is one of the most popular street foods in Taiwan. However, this snack at I-Chung Night Market is famous for its jumbo size. It is 1.5 times larger than regular friend chicken; perhaps larger than your face. Taiwanese fried chicken is soaked in special sauce before frying, and its taste is mixed with spicy pepper and aromatic herbals, and the meat quality is tender and juicy; it is of its own kind other from common western style fried chicken.

Hearing those various famous Taiwanese snacks, I bet you now can not wait to visit the I-Chung, do you? Follow my steps close, let’s go forward to the Night market right now!