Liuhe Night Market

The Liuhe Night Market, also Liouhe or Liouho Night Market (Ch六合 夜市Liuhe Yeshi ) is a tourist attraction in the city of Kaohsiung and one of the most famous night markets in Taiwan.

Location and History

The Liuhe Night Market has emerged from the former Dagangpu market and took on its current name from the Liuhe street in the central city district Sinsing, along which it extends for a length of about 380 m. The market is located near the Kaohsiunger train station and the metro station Formosa Boulevard.

After a rapid increase in the market stalls in the 1950s, the market traders organized in 1962 with regulatory approval in the committee to manage the Liuhe Night Market. To open an item on the market an award from the city of license is necessary since then.

With the increase of the stands and the flow of visitors environmental problems emerged soon because of the resulting waste. Early 80s, the city government launched a campaign to promote hygiene to night markets. The situation improved in the following years continuously, and in 1983 the Liuhe Market was named " Hygienic best night market ".

Since 1987, the road section of the market from 17:00 clock and 02:00 o `clock is a pedestrian zone; a measure which does not insignificantly contributed to increase the safety and attractiveness of the market.

Offer

On the Liuhe market a wide variety of snacks, clothing, jewelry, toys and other items will be offered. The culinary field for example, there fried rice, fried noodles, fried chicken, Jiaozi dumplings, various seafood, teppanyaki, Stinky tofu, fire pot, zongzi ( Klebreisklöße ) tangyuan, fruit, juices, tea, papaya milk, ice cream and much more.

A special attraction for tourists is the traditional " snake stand," consumed on the snake meat and soup as well as vibrant snakes can be admired in cages.

Tourism

The market attracts a multitude of visitors from out of town and is also the most visited by foreign tourists Night Market Kaohsiung. Most of the foreign visitors were from the People's Republic of China. A newspaper report from 2011, the share of Chinese tourists among all the visitors to the Liuhe market is a daily average of about 60%. Another large group of tourists from Japan dar. Many measures have been taken to meet the needs of visitors, including through the establishment of public toilets. The locals, however, the popularity of the market has declined by its ever-increasing tourist orientation and the concomitant rise in prices in recent years.