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蔥油餅cōngyóu bǐng
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Yilan · Luodong
Luodong Night Market
羅東夜市
A night market around Zhongshan Park, with mutton soup, scallion pancakes and filled tapioca balls
- Hours
- Daily 15:00–00:00
- Crowds
- Busy
- Payment
- Cash
- Nearest station
- LuodongTRA Yilan Line
The market
About Luodong Night Market
Luodong Night Market is in the center of Luodong, beside Zhongshan Park, spreading across Minsheng, Minquan, Gongyuan and Xingdong roads. The Luodong tourism site calls it the center of local shopping and says it has helped the surrounding commercial area grow.
There is plenty to eat. Mutton soup, scallion pancakes, filled tapioca balls and the 'dragon-and-phoenix leg' are the popular snacks the official site names, and Chinese Wikipedia also lists gāozhā, fried battered pork, rice-noodle soup, douhua, grilled skewers and lemon aiyu jelly. Some stalls keep short hours; the rice-noodle stall, for one, sells only in the morning. Zhongshan Park next door has a small locomotive to pose with and fish to feed.
Best foods
What to eat
The signature dishes of Luodong Night Market, with typical prices.
Typical price: NT$30–80 · per pancake
Eat your way through
A round of Luodong Night Market
A suggested order for an evening here. Share what you order and linger where the queue is longest.
- About 1 h 40 min
- 5 stops
Stop 1: Gāozhā and fried battered pork
Yilan's fried specialties first: gāozhā is scalding inside when it comes out, so take small bites; the battered pork loin is seasoned and fried.
Stop 2: Scallion pancake
The official tourism site lists scallion pancakes as a popular snack, and Sanxing scallions are among Yilan's best-known crops. What Yilan people call 蔥餅 is closer to a filled cake: a thin wrapper packed with Sanxing scallions, semi-fried until crisp, and Chinese Wikipedia notes it is not the same as the usual 蔥油餅. Yu Ben Pu on Minquan Road is the stall recent roundups recommend most, at NT$40 each (Supertaste), and it usually has a queue.
- Scallion Pancake
- Yu Ben Pu Sanxing Scallion Cake
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Stop 3: Mutton soup
The hot soup the market is most known for, a good counterweight to the fried snacks.
Stop 4: Stinky tofu fries
Tang Shu Shu at stall 1085 on Gongyuan Road fries stinky tofu in fry-shaped sticks in ten flavors, with the cheese sauce and Thai sweet-sour-spicy named most often; a small cup is about NT$65 to 75 (TVBS, indicative only).
- Stinky Tofu
- Tang Shu Shu Stinky Tofu Fries (Luodong main shop)
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Stop 5: Filled tapioca balls
A popular snack on the official tourism site; 'filled' refers to the stuffing inside the tapioca ball. A good one to finish on.
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
Yu Ben Pu Sanxing Scallion Cake
玉本舖三星蔥餅
Yu Ben Pu is on Minquan Road in Luodong Night Market and sells what Yilan people call 蔥餅, scallion cake. It is made more like a filled pancake: a thin wrapper around a heap of Sanxing scallions, semi-fried until golden and crisp. Supertaste's late-2025 roundup says the juice inside is sweet and scalding hot and that one costs NT$40; Yam's March 2026 piece mentions minced pork in the filling as well. Sanxing is Yilan's best-known scallion district, and this is one of the most direct ways to taste its scallions at the market. It differs from the usual scallion pancake, and Chinese Wikipedia notes that Yilan's 蔥餅 is not the same thing as 蔥油餅.
Known forScallion Pancake
How to find it: On Minquan Road inside the market area, usually with a queue. The two reports give different house numbers (100 and 85), so confirm along Minquan Road.
Tang Shu Shu Stinky Tofu Fries (Luodong main shop)
堂薯薯臭薯條（羅東總店）
Tang Shu Shu cuts stinky tofu into french-fry sticks, fries them until the outside is golden and crisp and the inside stays tender, and serves them in a paper cup, one stick at a time, easy to eat while you walk. There are ten flavors, and the house cheese sauce, Thai sweet-sour-spicy and honey mustard are the ones the write-ups mention most. Fan News (June 2025), HK01 (updated July 2026) and TVBS (November 2025) all list it among Luodong Night Market's popular snacks. One TVBS article puts a small cup at NT$65 to 75 and a large one at NT$85 to 90 (indicative only). The tofu here is fried, so look elsewhere if you want steamed or stewed stinky tofu.
Known forStinky Tofu
How to find it: On Gongyuan Road around Zhongshan Park, stall number 1085, which the write-ups all give; look for the number plate on site.
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 Minsheng, Minquan, Gongyuan and Xingdong roads, Luodong Township, Yilan County (around Zhongshan Park)
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The Luodong tourism site run by the township office lists 3 p.m. to midnight daily, and Chinese Wikipedia says the market is open all year with no closing days. That is the span for the market as a whole; individual stalls vary. Some open later in the afternoon (the Yu Ben Pu scallion cake stall is 16:00 to 22:00 per Yam), and some sell only by day, such as the rice-noodle stall. Check ahead 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
- The market opens at 3 p.m.; for fewer crowds, go just after opening in the early evening.
- Crowds
- Busy
- Payment
- Cash
Good to know
- Zhongshan Road Section 3 beside the market is narrow and prone to jams (Chinese Wikipedia), so take the train or a coach and walk in.
- A few stalls, such as the rice-noodle soup, sell only in the morning, so come early for those; the market itself starts at 3 p.m.
- Bring cash as a backup: night-market stalls mostly take cash and mobile payment varies by stall, which could not be verified stall by stall.
How to arrive
Getting there
Train
Luodong
TRA Yilan Line
From the station, walk straight along Gongzheng Road, turn left on Xingdong Road and go about 200 meters; the market is on your left (Chinese Wikipedia).
Bus
Luodong Transfer Station
Right beside the railway station, Luodong's main bus interchange, served by Guoguang, Capital and Kamalan coaches.
History
A little history
Chinese Wikipedia (whose entry is flagged as thinly sourced) says the Lanyang Theater once stood here and people ate late-night snacks nearby after films, which over time became the night market; in the 1990s the town office planned the area and set up stalls, tidying up its formerly disorderly look. The Luodong tourism site adds that dishes from the market have been on a presidential state banquet menu.
Luodong itself was a forestry depot under Japanese rule, and the Zhulin station opened in 1924 as the start of the Taiping Mountain forest railway. These accounts come mostly from travel guides and official introductions, so read them as a rough outline.
Keep exploring
More night markets to explore
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饒河街觀光夜市
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- Daily 17:00–00:00
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Photo credits (8)
- Luodong Night MarketPhoto: Traininteriorguy · CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Luodong Night MarketPhoto: rheins · CC BY 3.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Luodong Night MarketPhoto: Foxy Who \(^∀^)/ · CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Luodong Night MarketPhoto: Bighornedowl · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Scallion PancakePhoto: Saimmx · CC0 (opens in a new tab)
- Raohe Street Night MarketPhoto: Ji Soo Song · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Ningxia Night MarketPhoto: Jonashtand · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Keelung Miaokou Night MarketPhoto: 中華民國總統府 · CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab)