Oyster Omelet
蚵仔煎é zǐ jiān
- Briny
- Savory
- Sweet
- +1 more
Tainan · North District
Garden Night Market
花園夜市
Tainan's biggest night market, hundreds of stalls laid out across one big lot
- Hours
- Thu–Sun 17:00–00:00
- Crowds
- Very busy
- Average spend
- NT$200–400per person for a graze-through meal
- Nearest station
- Home Pro stop (Wenxian Road)Tainan city bus route 3 (from the north bus stop at Tainan Station)
The market
About Garden Night Market
Garden Night Market is Tainan's largest, with about 400 stalls laid out in tidy rows on a big lot in North District. The Tainan tourism bureau divides it into four zones, food, fashion, general goods, and recreation and leisure; the food rows are on the east side, where hot griddles, steaming broth pots and queues show you what is good. Some English sources call it the Flower Night Market.
It shares a weekly rotation with Dadong and Wusheng night markets, so the same cooks often appear at different markets on different nights. Come for oyster omelets, grilled sausage with rice sausage, stinky tofu, spicy duck blood and braised snacks, then stay for the game stalls.
Best foods
What to eat
The signature dishes of Garden Night Market, with typical prices.
Typical price: NT$70–120 · per plate
Stinky Tofu
臭豆腐chòu dòufu
- Fermented
- Savory
- Umami
- +3 more
Typical price: NT$60–150 · per plate
Taiwanese Sausage in Glutinous Rice (“Small Sausage in Large Sausage”)
大腸包小腸dàcháng bāo xiǎocháng
- Savory
- Sweet
- Smoky
- +2 more
Typical price: NT$30–90 · per set
Taiwanese Fried Chicken
鹽酥雞yánsū jī
- Savory
- Peppery
- Aromatic
- +3 more
Typical price: NT$60–300 · per bag, depending on what you pick
Eat your way through
One lap of Garden Night Market
A suggested order for an evening here. Share what you order and linger where the queue is longest.
- About 2 h
- 5 stops
Stop 1: A hot bowl at the north entrance
Enter from the Hewei Road end and sit down at Chen Da-min's spicy duck blood stall: sit, order, eat, then pay. Pick your spice level; the combination bowl of duck blood, fish balls and intestine is the usual order.
Stop 2: Oyster omelet at Ah San Ge
Head into the food rows and order an oyster omelet, or swap in shrimp, cuttlefish or crab meat, and watch the edges crisp on the griddle.
- Oyster Omelet
- Ah San Ge Oyster Omelets (Three Ah Brothers)
- Search on map(opens in a new tab)
Stop 3: Sausage and rice sausage at Hong Fei
A small portion is plenty; load it up with pickled onion, cucumber, spicy radish and garlic from the condiment row. If you are curious, order one at the Sanlunche stall too and compare.
- Taiwanese Sausage in Glutinous Rice (“Small Sausage in Large Sausage”)
- Hong Fei Sausage & Rice Sausage
- Search on map(opens in a new tab)
Stop 4: Stinky tofu at Yanji
Eat it hot while the skin is crisp. The pickled cabbage comes generously; eat it with the tofu to cut the oil.
- Stinky Tofu
- Yanji Stinky Tofu
- Search on map(opens in a new tab)
Stop 5: Finish with something sweet
Candied sweet potato, mochi from Uncle Mochi (麻糬叔叔) or a Thai milk tea are the finishers several guides keep recommending; pick one and eat while you browse.
On the lanes
Stalls worth finding
A few stalls we know, with tips for spotting them. Line-ups change, so treat this as a starting point.
4 stalls
Ah San Ge Oyster Omelets (Three Ah Brothers)
阿三哥蚵仔煎
A well-known oyster omelet stall at Garden, with more choices than the usual night-market griddle: oyster, shrimp, cuttlefish or even crab meat. The edges are cooked until crisp and the omelet is glossed with a sweet-and-sour red sauce. Travel writers describe the older man at the griddle as a familiar figure at Garden. The same stall is reported to turn up at Wusheng Night Market too.
Known forOyster Omelet
How to find it: Reported usually around row 4 in the food rows on the east side, but stalls shift and one recent visitor could not find it; look for the line at the griddle.
Hong Fei Sausage & Rice Sausage
紅妃大腸香腸
Garden's take on 大腸包小腸 (sausage in sticky-rice sausage). Instead of stuffing a sausage into a split rice sausage, Hong Fei grills both on an iron plate, chops them into bite-sized pieces and tosses them with Taiwanese basil and sweet soy sauce. A row of condiments sits in front of the stall, from pickled onion and cucumber to spicy dried radish, ginger, shredded radish and raw garlic, and you add your own.
Known forTaiwanese Sausage in Glutinous Rice (“Small Sausage in Large Sausage”)
How to find it: Reported to move between rows 2 and 4 of the food rows; the grill faces the aisle with a self-serve condiment row.
Sanlunche (Tricycle) Sausage & Rice Sausage
三輪車大腸香腸
Another sausage-and-rice-sausage stall with a line at Garden, reported to appear at Wusheng and Xiaobei markets as well. Sticky-rice sausage and pork sausage are fried together on a hot plate with basil, and you add chopped garlic, onion, radish slices and cucumber from the condiment tray, then soy paste or chili sauce.
Known forTaiwanese Sausage in Glutinous Rice (“Small Sausage in Large Sausage”)
Yanji Stinky Tofu
延記臭豆腐
A long-running stinky tofu stall at Garden, usually with a line. The tofu is fried until the skin crackles over a soft, custardy middle, then piled with sweet-sour Taiwanese pickled cabbage and a garlicky soy sauce; chili sauce is optional. One travel blog rates the smell as mild, which makes it a reasonable first stinky tofu.
Known forStinky Tofu
Plan your visit
Where and when
Find the market on the map and check the weekly hours before you set out.
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No. 533, Section 3, Haian Road, North District, Tainan City 704
Opening hours
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | Closed |
| Thursday |
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These are typical hours for the market as a whole; stalls set their own times, most open between 17:00 and 18:00, and individual stalls often keep shorter hours. The market is open-air and usually shuts in heavy rain or typhoons. The Tainan tourism bureau's attraction page lists Thursday to Sunday, 17:00 to 24:00 (closed Monday to Wednesday). Friday is a recent addition: NOWnews reported on 4 November 2025 that the market, which had opened only on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, added Friday from October 2025. The bureau's night-tour page still shows Thursday, Saturday and Sunday and appears to be out of date. Check the market's official Facebook page for the week's status before you go.
Stalls set their own hours and close on their own days. Confirm before you go.
Know before you go
Visitor information
- Best time to go
- Arrive between 17:00 and 18:30, when stalls are just opening, crowds are thin and parking is easier. Guides put the peak at roughly 7 to 10 p.m., busier still on weekends, with queues at the popular stalls.
- Crowds
- Very busy
- Average spend
- NT$200–400 · per person for a graze-through meal
- Payment
- Cash
- Getting around
- The market sits on a flat lot, but aisles are crowded and stall layouts change. Public toilets and hand-washing stations are on site, with more toilets at the scooter lot on the south side; no official accessibility information was found, so check ahead if you need step-free access.
Good to know
- Locals remember the rotation with a mnemonic, most often 大大武花大花花 (some say 大大武花大武花 instead): Dadong on Monday, Tuesday and Friday, Wusheng on Wednesday and Saturday, Garden on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. That mnemonic is out of date: Garden added Friday from October 2025 and now opens Thursday to Sunday, so on Friday nights both Garden and Dadong are open.
- Get your bearings first: there are about 12 rows, with four food rows on the east side and shopping and games on the west, and the main entrance at the northeast corner where Hewei Road meets Haian Road.
- Stall positions shift, so a stall a blogger recommends may not be where they found it; ask around or follow the lines.
- If you drive, the free lot at the front fills quickly on weekends; nearby paid lots charge roughly NT$50 to 100 per visit, and scooter parking is at the south end. A taxi or bus is easier.
- Most stalls take cash only, so bring small notes.
How to arrive
Getting there
- 10 min walk
Bus
Home Pro stop (Wenxian Road)
Tainan city bus route 3 (from the north bus stop at Tainan Station)
Walk back and turn east along Hewei Road, about ten minutes; two travel guides agree on this route.
- 2 min walk
Bus
Garden Night Market stops (Haian Road / Hewei Road)
City buses (check the Tainan bus app for current routes)
Bus stops named for the market sit on both Haian Road and Hewei Road, but guides disagree on which routes call there (routes 0, 3 and 7 are mentioned, and one guide says the 0 Left and 0 Right loops detour to the market on Saturday and Sunday evenings), so confirm current routes before you go.
- 20 min walk
On foot
Tainan Park
About 1.5 km from Tainan Park, an estimated 20-minute walk; taxis usually drop off on Hewei Road at the north end.
History
A little history
Garden is young as night markets go. Travel writers date its opening to 1999, a closure in 2003 and a reopening in 2005, and the Tainan tourism bureau notes that it lacks the long history of other Taiwanese night markets but grew quickly, ranking 12th among Facebook's top check-in locations in 2013. Recent reports say an expansion and renovation in 2025 pushed the stall count past 400 and widened the opening days from Thursday, Saturday and Sunday to Thursday through Sunday (NOWnews, November 2025: Friday added from October 2025). The opening year and the closure and reopening rest on travel writers alone and no single official history turned up, so read them as 'is said to'.
Keep exploring
More night markets to explore
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- Tue, Thu–Sun 17:00–00:00
Known forTaiwanese Fried Chicken · Stinky Tofu · Sweet Potato Balls
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Photo credits (10)
- Garden Night MarketPhoto: Sun Taro · CC BY-SA 2.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Garden Night MarketPhoto: 褒忠國中 雲端網 · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Garden Night MarketPhoto: 褒忠國中 雲端網 · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Oyster OmeletPhoto: Morgan Calliope · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Stinky TofuPhoto: takuma mori · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Taiwanese Sausage in Glutinous Rice (“Small Sausage in Large Sausage”)Photo: Rick888chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Taiwanese Fried ChickenPhoto: 玄史生 · CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Ruifeng Night MarketPhoto: Wiki Asmah · CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Liuhe Night MarketPhoto: Chainwit. · CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Wenhua Road Night MarketPhoto: Mk2010 · CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab)