🇹🇼 Exploring Shilin Night Market in Taipei, Taiwan

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]So, this nice lady just let me try something. We're going to see what it is.

[00:00:06]Mhm. Thank you so much. You want to say hi?

[00:00:10]Hi. Hello. Hi.

[00:00:13]Look at that. It's almost like it's a bun on its own, but that's actually sticky rice. So, let's give it a shot.

[00:00:23]Mhm.

[00:00:25]It would not be a stop in Taiwan at a food market if you don't get boba. Boba was actually created here in Taiwan in the '80s.

[00:00:35]All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm bringing you to the biggest and most famous night market here in Taipei City. We are at the Shilin Night Market.

[00:00:47]We are going to eat tons and tons and tons of food. They've got an inside food court.

[00:00:53]And then >> [laughter] >> they've got the entire building, and then they have a lot of the side streets also have food.

[00:01:05]So, let's go look around.

[00:01:08]Let's see what we have.

[00:01:10]Ooh, see.

[00:01:11]>> [clears throat] >> They're just now getting open, so uh we're going to have to wait a little bit, but we're going to walk around, see what we can find.

[00:01:22]I know you can shop here, you can eat here. They have a lot of these games, which is cool.

[00:01:29]Got the pop the these balloons game.

[00:01:33]Martini, margarita, Long Island.

[00:01:37]What is this What do we do? Do we get a drink?

[00:01:40]If you win, you can earn a drink. No drink? If you win, you can earn a toy. But I can earn a toy.

[00:01:45]Yeah. All right, let's do it. How much for one one uh 100. 100 for one try?

[00:01:51]Okay, I'll do two. Do two? I'm going to do two.

[00:01:54]>> I love you, bro. Love you, too, man.

[00:01:59]Let's go all in.

[00:02:02]All right.

[00:02:03]We're going to get this started.

[00:02:09]All right, we got 200.

[00:02:13]All right, so which one? I can pick any?

[00:02:15]This one?

[00:02:18]Long Island first, okay.

[00:02:21]Oh, I get five shots?

[00:02:26]I get a toy?

[00:02:27]All right.

[00:02:29]Let's see.

[00:02:32]Ah, I missed.

[00:02:38]There's one.

[00:02:40]All right, we got to get perfect now.

[00:02:44]That's two.

[00:02:48]That's three.

[00:02:49]Last one.

[00:02:51]Yes.

[00:02:53]Four out of five.

[00:02:55]I get a toy?

[00:02:57]I get a small one?

[00:03:02]All right.

[00:03:06]All right.

[00:03:09]Hello. How are you?

[00:03:14]All right.

[00:03:16]Let's see if we can do it again.

[00:03:21]Oh.

[00:03:27]I WAS STANDING.

[00:03:29]OH, NO. [screaming] LOOK HOW CLOSE IT WAS.

[00:03:34]THREE.

[00:03:37]BAM.

[00:03:40]THANK YOU.

[00:03:44]ONE DOLLAR OFF THIS WALL? YEAH. OFF this wall? Okay, what are we going to get?

[00:03:48]Um, over here. Okay.

[00:03:50]I'll get uh Winnie the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh. We're going to take Winnie the Pooh.

[00:04:00]Thank you, man. Let's go. Thank you so much.

[00:04:04]>> [music] [music] >> So this entire market is built around this Shilin Temple, which is right over here to our right.

[00:04:28]Check this out.

[00:04:35]See they're all getting set up.

[00:04:48]We're going to walk around and see what we can find. Ooh, thin noodles.

[00:04:53]That looks good.

[00:04:58]What? Sweet and sour sauce, we got fries. We're going to come back for that. Watermelon juice, cherry juice.

[00:05:08]They have boba.

[00:05:11]Beef and pork buns.

[00:05:17]The sausages here are really, really good, guys.

[00:05:21]And then more shopping.

[00:05:24]I think we're going to start off with Taiwanese sausage and sticky rice.

[00:05:34]Nihao.

[00:05:36]Can I have uh one sausage and sticky rice?

[00:05:39]Yeah, sausage. Thank you so much.

[00:05:42]You can choose one. Um barbecue satay?

[00:05:45]One.

[00:05:47]Uh yes, please, With sticky rice? Yes.

[00:05:49]Thank you so much. You're welcome.

[00:05:52]This looks so good. How much is it?

[00:05:56]80.

[00:05:58]How much? 80, okay. Thank you.

[00:06:04]All right, guys. So, your boy picked the only place that didn't have a sit-down place to sit. But, we got the barbecue set that I Taiwanese sausage and sticky rice. Look at that. It's almost like it's a bun on its own, but that's actually sticky rice. So, let's give it a shot.

[00:06:26]Oh my god.

[00:06:31]That is freaking delicious. Absolutely delicious, guys. So good.

[00:06:42]That meat is not too salty, but it has a real good barbecue flavor.

[00:06:48]The sticky rice has a good good good texture.

[00:06:54]It's barbecue, but it's sweet, you know?

[00:06:57]Oh my god. Look at that.

[00:07:06]Oh my god, that's so good.

[00:07:09]All right. Highly recommend.

[00:07:12]I'm in heaven, by the way. Can you guys see my face?

[00:07:15]Oh my god, so good.

[00:07:20]All right, guys. So, next up we're getting the world famous pepper pork buns.

[00:07:26]This one's actually Michelin the plate list.

[00:07:29]And uh, so we got the pork pepper. So, we're going to go give it a shot. Thank you so much, Shishi.

[00:07:37]It's only 65 uh Taiwanese dollars, which is super, super, super cheap.

[00:07:45]It's like two bucks.

[00:07:50]All right, guys. So, we've got our bun.

[00:07:52]Check this out.

[00:07:58]Mhm.

[00:07:59]Okay.

[00:08:01]That bread is super crispy, but even the even the dough has a really good flavor like that pepper kind of kind of blended into it.

[00:08:15]Mhm.

[00:08:18]That is the the black pepper pork bun.

[00:08:23]I mean, look at this.

[00:08:25]It's like a pork chop in there. Oh my god.

[00:08:29]This is really, really, really good. I see why they made Michelin on the plate.

[00:08:36]Oh.

[00:08:38]That means so.

[00:08:40]Tender.

[00:08:42]Juicy.

[00:08:44]And just bursting with flavor. All right.

[00:08:47]We're going to give the Taiwanese sausage like an eight and a half.

[00:08:53]This is getting a nine.

[00:08:55]Nine all day long.

[00:08:57]Guys, if I moved to Taiwan, I would get so fat. Food here is so delicious.

[00:09:07]Highly recommended.

[00:09:10]I think with all this delicious food, we need something cold to wash it down.

[00:09:16]Oh, I know this game.

[00:09:19]You got to hit the bottles.

[00:09:21]Break the bottles.

[00:09:24]There's so many options for food. And we're going to try as much as we can while we're here.

[00:09:34]Even as I'm feeling, I'm still working on this one.

[00:09:38]Ooh.

[00:09:40]Lime watermelon drink.

[00:09:43]That's what I want.

[00:09:54]>> [music] [music] >> All right, we got a giant jug of juice.

[00:10:13]It is going to be fire. Let's give it a taste. Let's try it.

[00:10:19]So, this nice lady just let me try something. We're going to see what it is.

[00:10:25]Mhm.

[00:10:26]It's very good.

[00:10:29]Thank you. Xie xie.

[00:10:32]That's good.

[00:10:38]Mhm.

[00:10:39]Thank you. Thank you so much. You want to say hi?

[00:10:43]Hi.

[00:10:44]Hello. Hi.

[00:10:46]Thank you. I appreciate you.

[00:10:49]She gave me some more. These are actually really, really fluffy.

[00:10:53]They're like a sweet Imagine funnel cake, no sugar.

[00:10:59]Funnel cake, no sugar.

[00:11:09]We have to try juice.

[00:11:21]Now, that's good.

[00:11:23]Oh, this is so good. Yeah, lemon. Lemon, yeah. Lemon winter melon.

[00:11:28]Oh my god. It's even dripping on my face. It's so good.

[00:11:33]That was so nice. That was very nice of her. She gave me like four more.

[00:11:40]And then said, "Bye-bye."

[00:11:42]>> [laughter] >> All right, so we're going to get moving.

[00:11:44]We're going to keep walking down the street.

[00:11:47]And then we're going to walk back to the front of the market and see now that everything's open.

[00:11:53]Be your own bartender. What?

[00:11:57]Don't do that to me. You get two shakes.

[00:12:01]Eight alcohol percentage.

[00:12:03]What? All right, we might have to come back for that.

[00:12:09]All these like games, there's like so many of them.

[00:12:26]Guys, this is a foodie paradise. They have buns on buns on buns.

[00:12:32]Got buns, son.

[00:12:35]What's crazy is I don't know if you guys can see it.

[00:12:38]There's a church right here and then a claw theme park.

[00:12:41]That's wild.

[00:12:44]If you see it like this where a bunch of locals are outside, you know it's going to be good.

[00:12:50]Then we have This is cool.

[00:13:00]I can see why this is the largest and most famous food market in the city.

[00:13:07]And I see they just turned on the lights.

[00:13:12]So, if you come right to the left of the entry, there's this side street.

[00:13:19]Taiwanese sausage with sticky rice.

[00:13:24]Stinky tofu.

[00:13:28]And more. This is This looks really good.

[00:13:36]Ooh, that looks good.

[00:13:37]Ni hao. Ni hao.

[00:13:41]Hello, how are you?

[00:13:46]Some more restaurants.

[00:13:50]And on the other side of the entrance, there's a whole 'nother line all the way down. Look at all the sausages. Sausage here is actually good. Most often street meat is not where it's at, but here it is. Braised pork on the rice. Ooh.

[00:14:22]All right, so I tried to give that toy away to like five families with a kid, and none of them would take it. So, it must be something cultural here.

[00:14:33]So, I just There was a toy shop over there and they had a stand outside. I just put it on the stand. Somebody will either take it or buy it or whatever, but I tried to do something nice. That's all that matters.

[00:14:45]So, I guess this is like the bar street over here.

[00:14:48]It looks like it cuz there's some bars down here, tattoo studios, and live music, then a cafe.

[00:14:55]This is a cool really cool part of town.

[00:14:58]Um I have never been over here.

[00:15:04]Nice bike.

[00:15:07]Nice bike.

[00:15:10]Um Let's see what we have. No, let's go this way. Ooh, that looks good, too.

[00:15:16]Man, I just can't eat this much.

[00:15:18]There's so many good options, but I can't eat this much.

[00:15:23]I wish I had two stomachs.

[00:15:28]But I don't.

[00:15:35]All right, guys.

[00:15:36]It would not be a stop in Taiwan at a fruity market if you don't get boba.

[00:15:42]Boba was actually created here in Taiwan in the '80s.

[00:15:46]So, we're going to get our first real Taiwanese boba. It was like 45 Taiwanese dollars, which is like a dollar and 30 cents.

[00:16:01]Mmm.

[00:16:04]So, So, we got it like middle middle sweet.

[00:16:09]And we got it with like just a little bit of ice, so it's just so good. It's like brown sugar bubble tea.

[00:16:17]It is so so good.

[00:16:22]Oh my god.

[00:16:24]Sugar overload, guys.

[00:16:27]But you can't come to Taiwan without getting boba since it was created here, you know?

[00:16:35]Balls.

[00:16:41]So, we got here right when they open.

[00:16:46]But now, sorry, I'm chewing my boba.

[00:16:49]Now all of a sudden it's starting to really get busier.

[00:16:52]It's only Thursday night.

[00:17:00]Bread.

[00:17:02]Hello. Ni hao.

[00:17:11]I like chicken.

[00:17:19]All right, ladies and gentlemen, what do you think of Taiwan's largest and most popular foodie market? If you liked it, make sure you leave a comment, ask any questions, like, share, subscribe, and we are on to the next place.