Tainan Garden Night Market

Tainan Garden Night Market

Tainan Garden Night Market was established in 1999 as a mobile night market in North District, Tainan City, Taiwan. It operates every Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. Although the history of Garden Night Market is not as long as that of other night markets in Taiwan, it has rapidly grown into a massive scale with nearly 400 stalls in just a short period. Following media coverage and television features, today Garden Night Market is now as renowned as Taipei’s Shilin Night Market, earning the title “Garden in the South, Shilin in the North.”

The stalls at Tainan Garden Night Market occupy around 3,000 pyeong (approximately 10,000 square meters), hosting nearly 400 vendors—currently the largest in Tainan City. The market is divided into four main sections: food and snacks, fashion clothing, boutique goods, and leisure entertainment. To attract more attention, many vendors erect tall advertising banners above their stalls, making them visible from afar and adding to the vibrant sea of flags that has become one of the market’s defining features.

Popular food stalls at Tainan Garden Night Market include A-Mei’s Pickled Guava, Tongda Charcoal-Grilled Chicken Cutlet, Chen’s Hong Kong-Style Fish Balls, Traditional Winter Melon Tea, Spring Roll Ice Cream, Si-Cao Oyster Omelet, Wooden Cabinet Braised Snacks, Exploding Sauce Chicken Cutlet, A-Yao’s Saltwater Chicken, Brother San’s Oyster Omelet, Wu’s Crispy Pork Ribs, Hero Fish Balls, Tsai Family’s Stinky Tofu, Yu Ming’s Exploding Sauce Pork Chop, Red Bridge Sausage & Intestines, French Crêpes, Snowy Black Tea Ice, and Boneless Duck Noodle Singapore-style Laksa Noodles.