It also means that after perhaps a heavy night, you will not have to worry about hailing a taxi to take you back to your hostel. This is a particularly good thing, as Ximending is known for all forms of entertainment, including a great night market and a raucous drinking scene! I had always been looking forward to coming to Ximending. I like to experience the big entertainment districts of a city, especially those involving youth culture as I can relate and join in! They serve amazing fragrant chicken pieces there and I could have sat there all day and scoffed dozens down my throat!
Be aware, though, that due to the popularity of the place, the queues are brutal! In the end, I made the executive decision to buy some fried chicken elsewhere, and luckily for me, Hot Star Large Fried Chicken was just around the corner. It is bigger than the palm of my hand!
I decided to wash it all down with some weird bitter melon juice that is sold from a roadside vendor in Ximending. Ximending was actually the first pedestrian zone in the whole of Taiwan, which is quite a feat, and even to this day it remains one of the largest zones of its kind in the country.
As well as a big place for fashion and food, many stalwarts of the entertainment industry will come to Ximending to promote their new albums or a new television series.
I learned once I returned from Taipei that Ximending is in actual fact a very notorious area for student prostitution. In a way this fact did not surprise me, as some areas did indeed look a little seedy as some little nooks and crannies in Myeongdong do also. Rest assured, though, I was there merely for the food! You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account.
