Raohe Street Night Market Sausage Vendors

Name: Raohe Street Night Market Sausage Vendors
Address: Raohe St, Songshan District, Taipei City 105, Taipei, TW

Taipei, Taiwan

Raohe Street Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市) runs for about 600 metres along Raohe Street in Songshan District, Taipei. It operates every day from 5pm to midnight and is one of the oldest night markets in the city, established in the 1980s when Songshan was a working industrial neighbourhood. The entrance gate faces Ciyou Temple, and the lane runs straight from there, lined on both sides with stalls. Grilled sausage stalls sit at intervals along the entire length. The sausages here are short links grilled over charcoal, handed to customers on bamboo skewers with a small packet of sliced raw garlic. Several vendors also do da chang bao xiao chang, assembling the rice-and-pork sausage combination to order with toppings of garlic, basil, and chilli sauce. The market is less crowded than Shilin on weekdays and is a consistent choice for residents of eastern Taipei. The vendors at Raohe tend toward slightly less sweet seasoning than some Shilin competitors, with a more prominent five-spice note.

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Sausages served here

Taiwanese Sausage

Taipei & Taiwan

Taiwan's most recognisable street food: a short, plump pork sausage with a noticeable sweetness that sets it apart from every other Chinese-language sausage tradition. Fatty pork is seasoned with sugar, soy sauce, rice wine, five-spice powder, and garlic, then stuffed into natural casings and dried briefly before grilling over charcoal. The exterior caramelises where the sugar hits the heat, turning deep amber with small scorched patches. Inside, the fat and meat stay juicy. The sausage arrives on a bamboo skewer at every night market in the country, eaten bite by bite alongside thin raw garlic slices. The practice has its own saying: 一口香腸一口蒜 (one bite sausage, one bite garlic).

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