{"id":28213,"date":"2018-12-12T22:13:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T14:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=28213"},"modified":"2026-03-15T20:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T12:34:02","slug":"12-days-in-taiwan-day-06-dongdamen-night-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2018\/12\/12\/12-days-in-taiwan-day-06-dongdamen-night-market\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Days in Taiwan \u2013 Day 06 \u2013 Dongdamen Night Market and Earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hualien’s most famous night market \u2014 Dongdamen<\/strong> \u2014 was about a 6-minute drive from Chisingtan Scenic Area<\/a>, and we got there pretty early at 4:45PM \u2014 just when the many stalls were setting up for the night’s business. This night market is quite different compared to Feng Chia<\/a>: Dongdamen is in a rectangular sort of shape and its interior is not open to vehicular traffic (apart from the odd delivery vehicle). It also has wide walkways, public toilets, and common areas for sit-down dining. In short, I liked it a lot more than the Feng Chia Night Market we visited twice while in Taichung! Dongdamen was far less congested, cleaner, and we didn’t have to stand and eat. There’s also a pretty cool permanent military exhibit area near one of the entrances with a Northrop F-5E aircraft, several armoured vehicles, an artillery piece, and several other assorted hardware.<\/p>\n

We’d had a pretty late lunch, and this was an early dinner, but our food list @ Dongdamen still included grilled corn on a cob @ NTD96\/SGD4.27 (should have been delicious but we ordered the wrong flavoring) + Assorted Grill @ NTD135\/SGD6 + Fruit Smoothie and a Water Melon Juice @ NTD110\/SGD4.89 + Beef Ribs @ NTD220\/SGD9.80 + Coffin Toasts @ NTD100\/SGD4.45.<\/p>\n

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The F5E aircraft. It actually looks pretty small in real life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The night market was quite sparse in crowds at the time we arrived, and by the time we left @ 6:30PM it was still relatively crowd-free.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ordering black pepper grilled corn. It didn’t taste that good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Corn ready for the grill!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Several stalls were offering assorted grills: you choose what you want, and they’d barbecue it. This was pretty good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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At good prices too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Watermelon juice is a great thirst quencher.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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At the common seating area: makes dining a much more pleasant experience.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Coffin toasts: so named because they dig a hole in the thick sandwich slice and cover it with goodies LOL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The black pepper pork coffin toast @ NTD50\/SGD2.22 \u2014 yummy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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One of the several entrances into Dongdamen Night Market.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The night market location icon seems off. It’s really more a makan than shopping place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And while writing out this post, we experienced our first earthquake! It was comparatively minor at 4.9 on the Richter Scale \u2014 but enough for a lot of rattling in the house, furniture shaking, and all our phone alarms sounding off the emergency alerts at the same time. Peter was unperturbed and still more interested in the TV, Hannah jumped off the bed, and Ling was just happy she’d just got out of the toilet haha.<\/p>\n

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The emergency message below: [Earthquake Express] 12\/12 At about 21:24, there is an earthquake in the Hualien area. It is estimated that the earthquake level is above 4: Hualien, Meteorological Bureau.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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What the Taiwan Central Bureau (https:\/\/www.cwb.gov.tw\/V7e\/earthquake\/) just reported.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Day 07 tomorrow is when we head for one of the highlights of this itinerary: Taroko Gorge<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hualien’s most famous night market \u2014 Dongdamen \u2014 was about a 6-minute drive from Chisingtan Scenic Area, and we got there pretty early at 4:45PM \u2014 just when the many stalls were setting up for the night’s business. This night<\/p>\n

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