Danzai Noodles
擔仔麵dànzǎi miàn
- Savory
- Umami
- Briny
- +2 more
Kaohsiung · Xinxing District
Liuhe Night Market
六合夜市
One of Kaohsiung's most representative tourist night markets: one straight street closed to traffic at night, for seafood, steak sets and papaya milk
- Hours
- Daily 17:00–02:00
- Crowds
- Busy
- Average spend
- NT$200–450per person for a graze-through meal
- Nearest station
- Formosa Boulevard StationRed Line R10 / Orange Line O5
The market
About Liuhe Night Market
Liuhe Night Market, officially Liuhe Tourist Night Market, is one of Kaohsiung's most representative tourist night markets. It is a straight stretch of Liuhe 2nd Road, roughly 300 to 380 meters long, closed to traffic at night and running from Zhongshan 1st Road to Zili Road. Sources disagree on the number of stalls, from 138 (the Taiwan Tourism Administration's English page) to more than 180 (Wikipedia). The street sells seafood congee, salt-steamed shrimp, danzai noodles and stinky tofu, plus a row of steakhouses built around affordable family-style steak sets; both the Tourism Administration and the Kaohsiung metro single out papaya milk.
The market is right beside Formosa Boulevard metro station and a walk of a little over ten minutes from Kaohsiung Station. It is touristy, and online comments and press reports have carried complaints from time to time that some stalls charge too much, so ask the price before you order.
Best foods
What to eat
The signature dishes of Liuhe Night Market, with typical prices.
Typical price: NT$60–120 · per small bowl
Stinky Tofu
臭豆腐chòu dòufu
- Fermented
- Savory
- Umami
- +3 more
Typical price: NT$60–150 · per plate
Eat your way through
One lap of Liuhe
A suggested order for an evening here. Share what you order and linger where the queue is longest.
- About 1 h 40 min
- 7 stops
Stop 1: Start with seafood congee
The Kaohsiung metro lists seafood congee among Liuhe's signatures, and ezTravel mentions a bowl with crab and shrimp for about NT$100, while Supertaste lists Zhuang Ji's seafood congee at NT$150 (prices differ by source, so indicative only). Warm up with it, then head deeper into the street.
Stop 2: Salt-steamed shrimp
The Tourism Administration singles this one out (its English page says 'steamed salty shrimps'); eat the shrimp hot.
Stop 3: Danzai noodles
The Kaohsiung metro lists danzai noodles as a Liuhe signature. The dish is generally traced to Tainan and usually comes as a small bowl of thin noodles with pork sauce and shrimp, just right as a snack.
Stop 4: Stinky tofu
Both the Kaohsiung metro and ezTravel list stinky tofu. Eat it hot while the skin is crisp, and use the pickled cabbage to cut the oil.
Stop 5: Sausage in rice
Sheng Yi at 73 Liuhe 2nd Road offers five rice-sausage flavors, red quinoa, basil, curry, purple rice and red yeast; Supertaste puts one at NT$60, and both roundups recommend the basil one.
Stop 6: Douhua to cleanse the palate
Liuhe Wangpai at 89 Liuhe 2nd Road opened in 1958, according to Mirror Media; its gypsum-set tofu pudding comes with toppings such as peanuts or red beans, and it keeps late hours, so it suits the second half of your walk.
- Douhua (Tofu Pudding)
- Liuhe Wangpai Traditional Douhua
- Search on map(opens in a new tab)
Stop 7: Finish with papaya milk
The Tourism Administration and the Kaohsiung metro both recommend papaya milk. ezTravel puts a glass at about NT$50 and Supertaste at NT$60 (indicative only) and names Zheng Lao Pai Papaya Milk (鄭老牌木瓜牛乳), which EasyTravel's nearby-shops list also includes, spelled 鄭老牌木瓜牛奶.
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
Sheng Yi Sausage-in-Rice
盛奕大腸包小腸
Sheng Yi is at 73 Liuhe 2nd Road, with a row of sausages sizzling on the grill. The glutinous rice sausage comes in five flavors: red quinoa (the plain one), basil, curry, purple rice and red yeast. It is split, filled with a grilled pork sausage, then dressed with cucumber, chopped garlic and ginger, and finished with soy paste or chili sauce; you can ask for any of it left out. In Supertaste's write-up basil and curry are the favorites, and another early-2026 roundup also singles out basil. Supertaste puts one sausage-in-rice at NT$60, with the rice sausage or the pork sausage alone at NT$30 each.
Known forTaiwanese Sausage in Glutinous Rice (“Small Sausage in Large Sausage”)
How to find it: On Liuhe 2nd Road at No. 73, where the grill is lined with sausages and a queue forms.
Liuhe Wangpai Traditional Douhua
六合王牌傳統豆花
Liuhe Wangpai is at 89 Liuhe 2nd Road, roughly toward the back of the market. A Mirror Media column from late 2025 says it opened in 1958 (year 47 of the Republic), that the first-generation owner was from Tainan, and that the tofu pudding is made from non-GMO soybeans set with gypsum, the beans soaked overnight and ground the next day. Toppings include peanuts, red beans, mung beans, pearl barley, taro paste and tapioca pearls, and the column says you can choose two; the syrup is made with Taiwan-made semi-refined brown sugar (二砂糖). It prices a small bowl of red-bean douhua at NT$35, while a Japanese-language guide from the following January gives NT$55 for a medium bowl with up to six toppings. The bowl sizes differ, so treat prices as indicative.
Known forDouhua (Tofu Pudding)
How to find it: At 89 Liuhe 2nd Road, toward the back of the market; follow the house numbers.
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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Liuhe 2nd Road, between Zhongshan 1st Road and Zili Road, Xinxing District, Kaohsiung City 800
Opening hours
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These are typical hours for the street as a whole; each stall sets its own. Most stalls start setting up between 17:00 and 18:00 and it is liveliest in the evening. Sources differ: the Kaohsiung tourism site's listing (republished by the Kaohsiung metro) says daily 17:00 to 05:00, which presumably describes the latest-closing stalls; OpenStreetMap (updated August 2026), Supertaste (updated May 2026) and Wikipedia give 17:00 (Wikipedia also says 18:00) to 02:00, and EasyTravel says until 01:00. 02:00, the figure most sources share, is stored. Some food stalls take a weekly day off (Supertaste notes that some shops close on Tuesdays), so check if you have a particular stall in mind.
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
- Weekday evenings around 18:00 are the most comfortable, with stalls just opening and crowds thin. Supertaste suggests arriving between 18:00 and 18:30, and the later it gets the busier it is; weekend nights are the busiest. A 2010 Taiwan Panorama feature estimated 30,000 to 50,000 visitors on weekends, and crowds have also swelled around concert dates in recent years.
- Crowds
- Busy
- Average spend
- NT$200–450 · per person for a graze-through meal
- Payment
- Cash
- Getting around
- The market is a straight city street with no vehicles once it closes to traffic, but evening crowds make wheelchairs and strollers hard to move. No official accessibility information was found, so check ahead if you need step-free access.
Good to know
- Steakhouses line the street and its surroundings, built around family-style steak sets; guides count anywhere from over ten to dozens. A good choice if you would rather sit down for a proper meal.
- Online comments and press reports have complained from time to time that some stalls charge too much (a 2016 news report quoted netizens' criticism), so ask the price and read the menu before you sit down. For reference, Supertaste's roundup (2024, updated through 2026) lists papaya milk at NT$60, sausage-in-rice at NT$60, seafood congee at NT$150 and eel noodles at NT$100, while tripool gives papaya milk at NT$80; sources differ, so treat these as indicative.
- In 2019 the government subsidized some stalls to seek halal certification, so Muslim visitors can look for certification signs and confirm with the stall.
- The road is closed when the market opens and cleaned after it shuts, so in daytime it is just an ordinary street with traffic.
- Snack stalls mostly deal in cash, so bring small notes (no official payment information was found).
How to arrive
Getting there
- 5 min walk
Metro
Formosa Boulevard Station
Red Line R10 / Orange Line O5
Sources give different exits: the Kaohsiung metro's page says Exit 1 (about five minutes' walk), Chinese Wikipedia, EasyTravel and Supertaste (updated 2026, which says about a two-minute walk) say Exit 11, and English Wikipedia says Exits 1, 9 and 11 all lead west to the market. The Tourism Administration puts the station about 430 meters away.
- 12 min walk
Train
Kaohsiung Station
Taiwan Railways
The Tourism Administration says to walk along Zhongshan Road for a little over ten minutes, then turn right onto Liuhe Road; the straight-line distance is about 900 meters.
High-speed rail
Zuoying Station
HSR + metro Red Line
Transfer at Zuoying to the metro Red Line toward Siaogang and ride six stops to Formosa Boulevard.
- 3 min walk
Bus
Nantai Road Intersection stop
The Tourism Administration lists the three nearest bus stops: Nantai Road Intersection (about 208 meters), Zili Road Intersection (about 246 meters) and Ruiyuan Road Intersection (about 300 meters). No reliable route information was found, so check current bus information.
History
A little history
According to Taiwan Panorama, after the Nationalist government relocated to Taiwan in 1949, vendors began selling snacks on open ground near the train station, in what was then called the Dagangpu market; the Taiwan Tourism Administration instead says stalls gathered around Dagangpu from about 1950 and formed the Dagangpu Night Market. Within a few years the stalls had spread along Liuhe 2nd Road from Zhongshan 1st Road to Zili Road, and because they traded from early morning to midnight the place gradually became a night market. Wikipedia adds that the vendors formed a self-governing association in 1961 and that a temporary centralized site of about 130 stalls was approved in 1962. Panorama says the city government began managing the market in 1974 and later upgraded the sidewalks and drainage. The date of the evening pedestrian zone depends on the source: Wikipedia says the city planned one in 1987, while Panorama says the open road became a pedestrian zone in 2005. The two may describe different stages, and no official account turned up.
The metro opened in 2008 with Formosa Boulevard station next door, bringing more visitors. In 2010 the market won several online-vote titles in the Tourism Bureau's characteristic night market contest (five, according to the Kaohsiung metro). A 2016 news report described visitor numbers falling noticeably as Chinese tour groups dropped sharply, and in 2019 the government subsidized some stall holders to apply for halal certification. A Mirror Media column from late 2025 says the crowds have returned over the past two years as Kaohsiung's concert economy brought in visitors. Most of this comes from media reports and Wikipedia; no single official history turned up, so read it as 'is said to'.
Keep exploring
More markets in Kaohsiung
Night market- Kaohsiung
- Tue, Thu–Sun 17:00–00:00
Known forTaiwanese Fried Chicken · Stinky Tofu · Sweet Potato Balls
Photo credits (6)
- Liuhe Night MarketPhoto: Chainwit. · CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Liuhe Night MarketPhoto: Mx. Granger · CC0 (opens in a new tab)
- Liuhe Night MarketPhoto: Mx. Granger · CC0 (opens in a new tab)
- Danzai NoodlesPhoto: Wpcpey · CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Stinky TofuPhoto: takuma mori · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Ruifeng Night MarketPhoto: Wiki Asmah · CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab)