The street where the night market rises is, by day, just an ordinary road with cars passing back and forth. At Zhongli's night market, the stalls familiar from…
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The street where the night market rises is, by day, just an ordinary road with cars passing back and forth.
At Zhongli's night market, the stalls familiar from any Taiwanese night market line the way. Large pieces of fried chicken, grilled sausages, stinky tofu, drinks with tapioca pearls.
And yet, mingled through this town, there are other scents as well. Lemongrass, coconut, lime. Zhongli is home to many people who have come from Southeast Asia. Around the night market and the train station, you'll also find shops selling Vietnamese pho and banh mi, Indonesian fried foods, and sweet Thai drinks.
It's not unusual for the shop owner to be someone who moved here from Southeast Asia. Some places adjust the flavors of home just slightly for Taiwanese customers, while others keep the taste of their homeland exactly as it is.
Here's one way to walk through it. First, a dish from a Taiwanese stall, then one from a Southeast Asian shop. Eating your way back and forth between the two, you can taste, on your very tongue, how this town came to be.
Turn the next corner, and the scent of yet another country will drift toward you.
