Kinda bored, so I thought I’d share some photos I took at a Taiwanese night market we went to when we were in Taipei back in 2010. It was an absolutely surreal kind of experience the likes of which you would never see here outside of a comic convention—walll to wall people crammed into a narrow alleyway lined with shops, choking your senses with light, sounds and smells.

It’s like one of those crazy marketplaces you’d see in a movie, only instead of finding ancient cursed talismans or mogwais stuffed into old pine boxes, you find the most delightful knockoffs:

IT’S A ME….PARIO. LET’S A YO?

SKI MASK COPS

And my personal favorite….

I think these dudes got Multiplicity and Batman confused.

ALSO this was the best shirt I saw:

Some of the shops were little more than a hole in the wall, with barely enough room for one person:

For some reason shopping areas fascinate me a great deal, more as a reflection of the culture they represent than anything. I’m sure most people would look at this and be like WOW WHAT A SHITHOLE and go galumphing off to Neiman Marcus or whatever to choke in some shitty perfume fumes and gnaw on a $100 sweater, but I find it’s got a lot of character to it—even if it is pretty much the result of having absolutely no space to expand.

This was the “food court” area, which was basically a separate pavilion full of stuff I couldn’t even begin to guess on. We didn’t have a guide or anything so we didn’t try too much but man everything smelled DIVINE except for the stinky tofu.

Anyways I’m rambling but basically I’m saying the night market was amazing to explore and I want to go back some day

HOPE YOU GUYS ENJOY THE PHOTOS I also have some from trips to Hong Kong so I may put those up sometime if people are interested