The Liuhe Night Market () is a tourist night market in

Sinsing District Sinsing District, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency () is a downtown district of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. Name Sinsing means ''new prosperity'' in Mandarin Chinese. History Sinsing used to be called Tāi-káng-po͘ () in ear ...

Kaohsiung Kaohsiung City ( Mandarin Chinese: ; Wade–Giles: ''Kao¹-hsiung²;'' Pinyin: ''Gāoxióng'') is a special municipality located in southern Taiwan. It ranges from the coastal urban center to the rural Yushan Range with an area of . Ka ...

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. It is one of the most popular markets in

where seafood, handicrafts, clothing, knives, cameras and live animals are sold.

History

In the 1950s, there had been many food stalls stationed in Dagangpu area of

collectively known as Dagangpu Night Market (). Since then, the night market has been developed into a large-scale market known as Liuhe Night Market. Recently the market has begun selling halal foods at its stalls. In 2019, the government provided subsidies to a number of stalls of the night market to encourage them to apply for halal certifications from the International Muslim Tourism Industry Development Association.

Transportation

The night market is accessible by walking distance west from exits 1, 9, and 11 of the

Formosa Boulevard Station Formosa Boulevard () is a station of Kaohsiung Metro located in Sinsing District, Kaohsiung. It is currently the sole interchange station between metro lines in Kaohsiung. Formosa Boulevard station is named after the Formosa Boulevard project, ...

of the Kaohsiung MRT.

References

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History

Transportation

See also

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