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A wet, overcast lane at Keelung's Miaokou Night Market, with yellow lanterns and red-and-yellow triangular pennants hanging above food stalls on both sides and a few people walking and eating

Keelung · Ren'ai District

Keelung Miaokou Night Market

基隆廟口夜市

A temple courtyard that grew into a street of tempura, dingbian suo and bubble ice

Night market
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Hours
Daily 12:00–00:00
Crowds
Busy
Payment
Cash
Nearest station
KeelungTaiwan Railway

The market

About Keelung Miaokou Night Market

Miaokou is Keelung's best-known cluster of snack stalls, named for the courtyard in front of Dianji Temple. The market runs along Ren 3rd Road and Ai 4th Road in an L shape, with a pedestrian underpass on Ai 3rd Road and the entrance arch of the food street at the Ai 3rd and Ren 3rd crossing; from Keelung Station it is about a 10-minute walk along Zhong 1st Road.

There is too much to see at once. Tempura, nutritious sandwiches, dingbian suo and bubble ice are the names that come up most, and there are also butter crab, bean-thread and swordfish thick soups, pan-fried dumplings and curry fried noodles. The city's tourism site describes it as an open-air space with no closing time, with each shop keeping its own hours, and suggests coming from sunset until about 9 p.m., when the most stalls are open and it is liveliest.

Eat your way through

Miaokou in five stops: from tempura to bubble ice

A suggested order for an evening here. Share what you order and linger where the queue is longest.

  • About 1 h 30 min
  • 5 stops

  1. Stop 1: Tempura (tiānfùluó)

    Start with the fried fish-paste cakes while they are hot; Chinese Wikipedia lists three shops, by the temple courtyard, midway along Ren 3rd Road and near the entrance. A 2023 roundup points to Wang Ji at stall 16 on Ren 3rd Road.

  2. Stop 2: Nutritious sandwich

    A fried long bun with ham, tomato, cucumber and braised egg under mayonnaise; it is hefty (one media estimate is about 600 kcal), so share it. Several guides number the stall 58 (most put it on Ren 3rd Road, one gives 30 Ai 4th Road).

  3. Stop 3: Dingbian suo

    Sheets of rice batter in a warm soup with shrimp, meat gravy, mushroom and bamboo shoot; the silky texture is a good change from fried food. Several guides place Wu Jia (Wu Ji) dingbian suo at 27-2 Ren 3rd Road.

  4. Stop 4: Butter crab

    The city tourism site lists butter crab among Miaokou's signature snacks; order one if you still have room for seafood.

  5. Stop 5: Bubble ice

    Hand-stirred, creamy ice to finish and cool down. Chinese Wikipedia lists Far East (placed at 5 Ren 3rd Road, the market's far end, in several guides) as the shop with the longest history; Chen Ji and Shen Ji are at 25 Ren 3rd Road, though guides give different stall numbers.

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.

2 stalls

  • Tian Yi Xiang Rou Geng Shun

    天一香肉羹順

    A long-standing shop on Ren 3rd Road in the Miaokou food street, serving small bowls of braised pork rice with a clear-broth meat soup (rou geng). A food site calls it a three-generation business and describes the braised pork rice as the best bowl in the Miaokou market, with a clean-tasting soup that takes a splash of black vinegar; a separate 2023 roundup says the rice served with the meat soup is deeply flavored. Most of Miaokou's famous snacks are tempura, nutritious sandwiches and bubble ice, so this stall is a plainer, local change of pace. Online write-ups list long hours, from 10:00 to 00:30.

    Known forBraised Pork Rice

    How to find it: In the Ren 3rd Road food street; one guide numbers it as stall 31, so go by the signboard.

  • Three Brothers Douhua (San Xiongdi Douhua)

    三兄弟豆花

    A tofu pudding and sweet-ice shop on Ai 4th Road in the Miaokou area. The star is soft douhua with toppings of your choice, such as tapioca pearls, taro balls and filled balls; besides the signature tapioca douhua there is grilled mochi dusted with sesame and peanut powder. A TVBS Supertaste feature stresses that every topping is cooked in-house, with house specialties billed as 'Dou Nai Shuang' (豆奶爽) and 'Honeymoon sweet potato' (蜜月地瓜). NOWnews (2025) puts a bowl of douhua at NT$50 and up, with shaved ice as well (mango shaved ice at NT$180). Most of Miaokou's famous items are fried or savory, so a bowl of tofu pudding is an easy way to finish. Prices and hours may have changed.

    Known forDouhua (Tofu Pudding)

    How to find it: On the Ai 4th Road stretch of the market, at No. 26.

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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Around Ren 3rd Road and Ai 4th Road, Ren'ai District, Keelung (around Dianji Temple)

Opening hours

Weekly opening hours, Taiwan time
DayHours
Monday
  • 12:00 to 00:00
Tuesday
  • 12:00 to 00:00
Wednesday
  • 12:00 to 00:00
Thursday
  • 12:00 to 00:00
Friday
  • 12:00 to 00:00
Saturday
  • 12:00 to 00:00
Sunday
  • 12:00 to 00:00

Miaokou is an open-air street with no single set of hours: the Keelung City tourism site says there is no time restriction and each shop keeps its own hours, and Chinese Wikipedia says some shops operate around the clock. The 12:00-00:00 window above is the typical range (a 2026 TVBS Supertaste info card gives Monday-Saturday 12:00-00:00 and Sunday 08:00-00:00, and travel sites mostly say noon to midnight). The old shops on Ren 3rd Road open in the daytime while the stalls on the connecting Ai 4th Road mostly set up toward evening, so most stalls are open at their fullest from early evening until about 9 p.m.; arrive early for the popular ones.

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
From sunset until about 9 p.m. the most stalls are open and the crowds are biggest; on holiday weekends, popular stalls such as the nutritious sandwich reportedly hand out queue numbers and the wait can run very late.
Crowds
Busy
Payment
  • Cash

Good to know

  • The Keelung City tourism site notes cash only, so bring small bills and coins.
  • Keelung averages about 3,590 millimeters of rain a year, so carry an umbrella; Miaokou is an open-air street and how stalls handle rain varies.
  • To pair the market with the fish auction, the Kanzaiding fish market runs from 1:00 to 7:00 every morning and the city tourism site suggests 2:00 to 3:00 as the liveliest.

How to arrive

Getting there

  • Train

    Keelung

    Taiwan Railway

    Walk straight along Zhong 1st Road from the station and turn right onto Ai 3rd Road for the food-street entrance, about 10 minutes (Keelung City tourism site).

    10 min walk

  • Bus

    Miaokou Night Market

    T99 Binhai Qiji line

    Listed by the Keelung City tourism site as a direct stop; other city buses stop at Erxin Loop, about 3 minutes' walk away.

Photographs

Photo gallery

4 photos
Colorful dragon figures on the roof ridge of Dianji Temple, seen between glowing yellow lanterns above the Miaokou food stalls in Keelung

Colorful dragon figures on the roof ridge of Dianji Temple, seen between glowing yellow lanterns above the Miaokou food stalls in Keelung

Photo 1 of 3Photo: SHIH-CI · CC0 (opens in a new tab)

History

A little history

Miaokou grew out of the forecourt of Dianji Temple. Chinese Wikipedia dates the temple, which enshrines the deity Kaizhang Shengwang, in two ways: its Dianji Temple article says 1875 and its Miaokou article says 1873. The temple article adds that the Lin family of Banqiao donated land on Yutian Street to build it, and that local gentry later moved it to its present site on Ren 3rd Road. The Miaokou article, quoting local elders' records, traces the snack trade back to the end of the Japanese period; after the war the city government planned the stalls along Ren 3rd Road into a food district with more than 60 registered shops, and it later joined the Ai 4th Road night market to form what you see now.

The food eventually outgrew the temple's fame. The dates above come largely from elders' accounts and a travel guide, so treat them as a rough outline.

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