Liuhe Night Market

Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Liuhe Night Market (六合夜市) is Kaohsiung's most prominent night market, running along Liuhe 2nd Road in the Xinxing District of central Kaohsiung. It operates every evening from 6pm and covers about 400 metres of stalls under a canopy of hanging lights. Kaohsiung is Taiwan's second-largest city and a major port, and Liuhe draws both the city's own residents and tourists arriving at the nearby high-speed rail terminus. Grilled sausage stalls are among the most visible vendors in the market. The Kaohsiung version of the sweet pork sausage tends to carry a slightly deeper char from the grill and is served with the same raw garlic accompaniment as in Taipei. Several stalls at Liuhe also offer a local variation seasoned with black sesame and a touch of five-spice, a recipe common in southern Taiwan. The market has been a fixture of Kaohsiung street food culture since the 1960s and was one of the first night markets in Taiwan to be formally registered with the city government as a tourist attraction.

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Sausages served here

Taiwanese Sausage

Taipei & Taiwan

Taiwan's most recognisable street food: a short, plump pork sausage with a noticeable sweetness that sets it apart from every other Chinese-language sausage tradition. Fatty pork is seasoned with sugar, soy sauce, rice wine, five-spice powder, and garlic, then stuffed into natural casings and dried briefly before grilling over charcoal. The exterior caramelises where the sugar hits the heat, turning deep amber with small scorched patches. Inside, the fat and meat stay juicy. The sausage arrives on a bamboo skewer at every night market in the country, eaten bite by bite alongside thin raw garlic slices. The practice has its own saying: 一口香腸一口蒜 (one bite sausage, one bite garlic).

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