TAIPEI · RAOHE NIGHT MARKET ROUTE

Raohe Night Market Route

Past the vermilion gate of Songshan Ciyou Temple, the single lane of Raohe Street runs straight to the Rainbow Bridge. Charcoal-oven pepper buns, herbal steam, the clatter of griddles. Enter at one end, graze your way to the other—a route for the night.

🚇 Walk from MRT Songshan Line "Songshan" Stn / TRA Songshan Stn🚶 ~90 min on foot🍽 6 dishes

A market on a single lane

Raohe Tourist Night Market stretches about six hundred meters along one straight lane in Songshan. Where many Taipei markets branch like mazes, this one runs in a line from entrance to exit, hard to get lost in. Stalls and shops pack both sides while the crowd drifts slowly down the middle. That layout makes the walk easy: note the stalls you want on one side, collect them on the other. The vermilion hall of Songshan Ciyou Temple marks the entrance, and the route begins under its bright lights. A few stops by train from Taipei Main, and the market’s hum reaches you the moment you climb out at Songshan Station.

Pepper buns, and the herbal bowls

Talk of Raohe starts with the charcoal-oven pepper bun. Dough pressed to the inner wall of a cylindrical oven and baked through over charcoal in the Fuzhou way—one bun, juice seeping when you break it, is fair to call the market’s face. The other pillar is the herbal soup, yaodun paigu, its broth simmered slowly with angelica and other herbs to warm a tired body from within. Add the old Dongfa Hao’s youfan and squid soup, the griddled oyster omelette, the sticky-rice sausage wrap, and close with a sweet wheel cake. Less spectacle than the steady certainty of classics made the same way for years—that is where this market’s flavor sits.

How to walk this route

Up from the Songshan Station exit, head for the Raohe entrance using Ciyou Temple as your marker. Get a pepper bun early, near the mouth of the street—note the charcoal-oven stall at the start and long lines later won’t rush you. Midway, meet the steam of the herbal rib soup, then slot in youfan and squid soup lightly at Dongfa Hao. Follow with the griddled oyster omelette and the fragrant sausage wrap, and close with a wheel cake toward the Rainbow Bridge end. The lane runs about six hundred meters one way; with a round trip and detours, roughly ninety minutes on foot. It fills from dusk into the night; treat prices and hours as guides, and pace how much you eat. When you finish, cross the Rainbow Bridge and rest your palate on the night view along the Keelung River.

Route map

Songshan Stn → Ciyou Temple → Raohe St → Rainbow Bridge (walking order)　·　numbers match the dishes below

The dishes on this route (6)

Tap through to each shop and dish

串1SnacksFuzhou Shizu Pepper Bun×Charcoal-Baked Pepper Bun胡椒餅Slapped onto the wall of a charcoal oven, this pepper bun is the signature of a long-running stall at the mouth of Raohe Street. A thin skin wraps pork and chopped scallion in a black-pepper filling, baked through in one blast of heat. Sesame crusts the top, and juice seeps out when you break it open. Fresh from the oven it runs hot, so bite the edge first and let the steam go. Picked up beside Ciyou Temple, one bun makes the right weight to start walking the market.Nearest MRT Songshan Stn Exit 5, ~3 min / Raohe StPrice NT$60 食2soupChen Dong Herbal Rib Soup×Herbal Pork-Rib Soup藥燉排骨Simmered slowly with angelica, chuanxiong and other herbs, this rib soup has long been the market’s bowl for warming up after dark. The bone-in pork ribs fall from the bone, arriving in a clear broth that carries a medicinal fragrance. Locals dip the meat in the fermented bean-curd sauce on the table, its sweet-salty tang softening the faint bitterness of the herbs. When your legs tire, a steaming bowl held in both hands pushes the market’s noise briefly away.Nearest MRT Songshan Stn Exit 1, ~5 min / Raohe StPrice NT$100 飯3RiceDongfa Hao×Taiwanese Sticky Rice (Youfan)東發號 × 油飯One of Raohe’s older stalls, Dongfa Hao serves youfan—glutinous rice stir-fried with dried shiitake, dried shrimp and shredded pork, glossed with soy and sesame oil. The grains sit firm and moist, and the savor of the filling rises the longer you chew. It is usually ordered alongside the stall’s equally known squid thick soup, the starchy broth and the rice setting each other off. Served in a small bowl, it slots in lightly on a night of grazing.Nearest MRT Songshan Stn Exit 1, ~6 min / Raohe StPrice NT$45 魚4SeafoodRaohe Oyster Omelette Stall×Oyster Omelette蚵仔煎Small oysters bound in beaten egg on a hot griddle, a sweet-potato-starch batter poured around them—the oyster omelette is one of Taiwan’s defining night-market plates. The batter crisps at the edge and sets translucent and soft at the center, where bitter greens meet the sweetness of the oysters. Taipei finishes it under a generous pour of sweet red sauce, its tang drawing the whole plate together. Watching the cook work the griddle is part of the pleasure of the wait at Raohe.Nearest MRT Songshan Stn Exit 1, ~7 min / Raohe StPrice NT$80 肉5MeatRaohe Sausage-Wrap Stall×Sticky-Rice Sausage Wrap大腸包小腸A charcoal-grilled glutinous-rice sausage is split open and a sweet Taiwanese pork sausage tucked inside—the name pictures the large intestine (rice) wrapping the small (meat). The grilled outside is chewy and springy, and a bite releases the fat and sweetness of the pork. Minced garlic, pickled greens and a sweet-hot sauce go on to taste, and it eats in one hand, made for walking the market. The smoke and smell off the grill tend to stop you where you stand.Nearest MRT Songshan Stn Exit 1, ~8 min / Raohe StPrice NT$65 甘6SweetsRaohe Red-Bean Wheel Cake Stall×Red-Bean Wheel Cake紅豆車輪餅Batter poured into wheel-shaped molds, packed with filling and baked on both sides—the wheel cake is the right sweet to close a night at the market. The classic red-bean paste is cooked to keep its grain, its restrained sweetness meeting the toasted skin. Fresh off the iron the outside is crisp and the inside moist and warm, the filling spilling a little with each bite. Many stalls offer custard, taro and other fillings to choose from, and buying two or three to share as you walk is part of the fun. That it costs only loose change is its own small pleasure on a Raohe night.Nearest MRT Songshan Stn Exit 1, ~9 min / Raohe St (Rainbow Bridge end)Price NT$20

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