Our Indulgences in Taiwan - Part 3 Ningxia Night Market

Ningxia night market (寧夏夜市) is one of the lesser known night markets amongst tourists, but it has the best food amongst all the Taipei night markets we've been to (no kidding). It is located in the old city called Datong and along Ningxia road. We dropped off at Taipei Main MRT station and took about 15-20 minutes to walk there, along the way 2 local girls even asked us for directions how to get to the night market. Luckily we have a data sim card so the GPS is always at hand.

This night market is all hustle and bustle, crowded and long queues at many of the popular stalls. The first snack we had was a chicken sausage cos we were very hungry and wanted to grab something quick, it turned out quite nice actually!

We read that the famous food here are the braised pork rice, muachi dessert + peanut soup and the taro balls. But as the taro ball stall queue was really horrendous, unfortunately we didn't have a chance to savour that.

Here's the braised pork chop rice we had, together with the egg seafood soup from the same stall. It's very interesting how they keep the half-cooked egg afloat on the soup, and it tastes yummy too! Pork chop rice was great, well-marinated but pity we didn't try the braised pork leg cos that looked tasty as well. This stall is  highly popular so be prepared to wait awhile for tables.

After this we had some dumplings at a nearby stall down the street, not the best cos I felt the dumpling skin left a bit of bitter after taste. Suggest to give this a miss and move on to better choices.

And of cos the famous muachi dessert! This stall has long queues as well but we were lucky to squeeze ourselves a table somewhere. You can either choose to have hot muachi served with peanut/black sesame powder or cold muachi which is buried within ice shavings, also topped with peanut/black sesame powder. We chose the latter and added a bowl of peanut soup which they are also famous for. The stall owner is a very zealous and nice auntie, to anyone who orders the hot muachi she will teach them how to cut it with chopsticks in a criss-cross manner which is supposed to be the correct and most efficient way to eat it.

Here's our peanut soup, in the background you'll see the floating muachi balls in the big pot.

And our yummy ice muachi dessert, we bought 2 balls so got the choice to mix both black sesame and peanut powder but of cos we ended up absolutely stuffed after this.

And the muachi dessert concludes one of our favourite night markets for food, next up - Shida night market.