It was much bigger as I was expecting to see. It was much more impressive, vibrant atmosphere surrounded and there was much bigger selection on food than you would expect from regular nightmarket allover Taiwan.
It's just same impressive, and maybe even bigger than Fengchia nightmarket in Taichung, located nearby my flat. Definitely, Luodongers can be same proud and self-acclaim it as biggest and most popular tourist attraction as sometimes Taichungers do with Fengchia nightmarket.
Luodong (traditional Chinese: 羅東; pinyin: Luódōng; Wade-Giles: Lo-tung) is an urban township in the central part of Yilan County, Taiwan. Its name derives from the Taiwanese aboriginal word Rutung/Lutung, meaning "monkey".
Same as in Fengchia nightmarket, and in most big nightmarkets in Taiwan - it has several parts. As you might know, night market is "night" because it appears on a particular street only in evening, so it will be always a situation that one side will have a shops - inside the buildings, usually selling clothes, glasses and jewelry, and in front of them - food sellers and all the usual shelters selling everything starting from fake Gucci bags made in China and ending children toys, also presumable from mainland. This part of market for you as a foreigner might be less interesting, however, take a walk to breath the atmosphere of friday evening in Luodong - food smell rises in the air mixed with loud voices of clothes sellers - a cacophony of sounds you will find only in Taiwan. Take a walk with me - watch the below video and especially listen the noise - NOISE of nightmarket.
In old fashioned brick-and-mortar business the location is the most important factor for any retail shop. So for this shop promotional banner with weak call to action is OK, to write by hand - as you can see still it's full of people there.
Shoes & apparel shops compete with each other not only using bright red signs but also sometimes switch on very loud "lai lai lai (come come come) recorded voice "spam" - very annoying in fact.
It's the woman's world out here.
Target customer for those apparel shops are teens and students - as you can see they are also most popular demographic group seen here.
it's a food selling area already in above video. In 0:19 and further notice the row - waiting in a line for dumplings stand.
Juice stand
Call to action for kids - entertainment here for everyone, and you will go out from market with very thin wallet. However, with full stomach.
Lu wei - same as in Fengchia night market and everywhere else. Taiwan people like it a lot, and with various flavors.
different fried food selection
Dumplings. Cheaper than in Fengchia nightmarket. And even more cheaper than in Kenting nightmarket - I had wrote about it here.
Kiss of Love cherry juice. No, it's not pathetic. It's Taiwan.
I can't stop wonder why Taiwanese man so like those striped shirts? My all are with palms and flowers, like those in Kenting...
Restaurant area in Luodong night market - yes, crowdy. But, it's a nightmarket!
Friday night - it's hard to find a place to sit.
Time to relax. Luodong style massage.
Those games are not just for kids - for big kids also. In love. After Kiss of Love cherry juice.
It's just same impressive, and maybe even bigger than Fengchia nightmarket in Taichung, located nearby my flat. Definitely, Luodongers can be same proud and self-acclaim it as biggest and most popular tourist attraction as sometimes Taichungers do with Fengchia nightmarket.
Luodong (traditional Chinese: 羅東; pinyin: Luódōng; Wade-Giles: Lo-tung) is an urban township in the central part of Yilan County, Taiwan. Its name derives from the Taiwanese aboriginal word Rutung/Lutung, meaning "monkey".
Same as in Fengchia nightmarket, and in most big nightmarkets in Taiwan - it has several parts. As you might know, night market is "night" because it appears on a particular street only in evening, so it will be always a situation that one side will have a shops - inside the buildings, usually selling clothes, glasses and jewelry, and in front of them - food sellers and all the usual shelters selling everything starting from fake Gucci bags made in China and ending children toys, also presumable from mainland. This part of market for you as a foreigner might be less interesting, however, take a walk to breath the atmosphere of friday evening in Luodong - food smell rises in the air mixed with loud voices of clothes sellers - a cacophony of sounds you will find only in Taiwan. Take a walk with me - watch the below video and especially listen the noise - NOISE of nightmarket.
In old fashioned brick-and-mortar business the location is the most important factor for any retail shop. So for this shop promotional banner with weak call to action is OK, to write by hand - as you can see still it's full of people there.
Shoes & apparel shops compete with each other not only using bright red signs but also sometimes switch on very loud "lai lai lai (come come come) recorded voice "spam" - very annoying in fact.
It's the woman's world out here.
Target customer for those apparel shops are teens and students - as you can see they are also most popular demographic group seen here.
it's a food selling area already in above video. In 0:19 and further notice the row - waiting in a line for dumplings stand.
Juice stand
Call to action for kids - entertainment here for everyone, and you will go out from market with very thin wallet. However, with full stomach.
Lu wei - same as in Fengchia night market and everywhere else. Taiwan people like it a lot, and with various flavors.
different fried food selection
Dumplings. Cheaper than in Fengchia nightmarket. And even more cheaper than in Kenting nightmarket - I had wrote about it here.
Kiss of Love cherry juice. No, it's not pathetic. It's Taiwan.
I can't stop wonder why Taiwanese man so like those striped shirts? My all are with palms and flowers, like those in Kenting...
Restaurant area in Luodong night market - yes, crowdy. But, it's a nightmarket!
Friday night - it's hard to find a place to sit.
Time to relax. Luodong style massage.
Those games are not just for kids - for big kids also. In love. After Kiss of Love cherry juice.
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