Pepper Bun
胡椒餅hújiāo bǐng
- Peppery
- Savory
- Porky
- +2 more
Taipei · Songshan (Raohe Street)
Raohe Street Night Market
饒河街觀光夜市
A straight 600-meter street where pepper buns perfume the entrance gate
- Hours
- Daily 17:00–00:00
- Crowds
- Busy
- Average spend
- NT$200–400per person
- Nearest station
- SongshanSongshan-Xindian Line (Green)
The market
About Raohe Street Night Market
Raohe is a single straight street of about 600 meters with a gate at each end. Songshan Ciyou Temple stands beside the entrance, a few steps from Songshan Station, and the smell of pepper buns from the oven greets you under the gate.
The food leans toward old stalls and traditional snacks: the Fuzhou Shizu pepper bun stall at the entrance bakes buns in a charcoal-fired brick oven, Chen Dong simmers pork ribs with Chinese herbs, and Xia Gang Ming Peng sets up in the middle of the street with crisp fried stinky tofu stuffed with a garlicky sauce, plus a spicy duck-blood version. Fuzhou Shizu and Chen Dong were both on Michelin's Bib Gourmand list in the first Taipei guide in 2018 (neither is on the current 2026 lists). Further in are a braised-snack stall near the entrance and a pushcart selling fresh mochi.
Best foods
What to eat
The signature dishes of Raohe Street Night Market, with typical prices.
Typical price: NT$40–80 · per bun
Stinky Tofu
臭豆腐chòu dòufu
- Fermented
- Savory
- Umami
- +3 more
Typical price: NT$60–150 · per plate
Braised Pork Rice
滷肉飯lǔròu fàn
- Savory
- Porky
- Rich
- +2 more
Typical price: NT$30–70 · per bowl (small to large)
Eat your way through
Raohe Street, gate to gate
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
Stop 1: Fuzhou Shizu Pepper Bun
The charcoal-oven pepper bun under the entrance gate; have one first. The line is long but moves fast, according to Michelin.
Stop 2: A Kuo Lu Wei (braised snacks)
Michelin's 2024 night-market feature singles out this braised-snack stall near the entrance, where duck wings and crispy sausage are the favorites; a late-2025 Marie Claire roundup lists it as closed on Mondays. Stalls change, so confirm on the spot.
Stop 3: Xia Gang Ming Peng Stinky Tofu
Try the crisp fried stinky tofu first, stuffed with a garlicky sauce and served with pickled cabbage and coriander; the brave can add the spicy duck-blood version. Press write-ups mostly give a 6 p.m. start.
Stop 4: Chen Dong Herbal Pork Rib Soup
A bowl of herbal pork rib soup with a small bowl of braised pork rice is especially comforting on a winter night.
Stop 5: Mochi Baby pushcart
Fresh mochi from a pushcart, dusted with crushed peanut and sugar or black sesame, makes a sweet ending; Michelin featured it in 2018 and 2024, and it is a Selected restaurant in the 2026 guide. Reported closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
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.
3 stalls
Fuzhou Shizu Pepper Bun
福州世祖胡椒餅
One of Raohe's best-known stalls sits right under the entrance gate. A dough pocket of pork and plenty of scallion is stuck to the wall of a charcoal-fired brick oven until the crust blisters and crackles, and the first bite releases hot juices and a rush of black pepper. Michelin put it on its Bib Gourmand list in the first Taipei guide (2018), and a 2020 Michelin article says it had been listed two years running; it is not on the current 2026 lists. The evening line is long but moves fast, according to Michelin. A bun straight from the oven is scalding inside, so give it a minute.
Known forPepper Bun
How to find it: Under the entrance gate at the Songshan Ciyou Temple / Songshan Station end of the market, the first stall you meet.
Chen Dong Herbal Pork Rib Soup
陳董藥燉排骨
A street-side stall whose star is herbal pork rib soup: ribs simmered for hours with Chinese medicinal herbs into a sweet, gently herbal broth topped with slivers of ginger. Michelin's inspectors note it is usually eaten with braised pork rice, and that seats are hard to get on cold nights. Michelin put it on its Bib Gourmand list when the first Taipei guide came out in 2018; it is not on the current 2026 lists. A late-2025 Marie Claire roundup also lists a melon-pickle braised pork rice alongside the soup and shows the stall closed on Tuesdays.
Known forBraised Pork Rice
How to find it: A small roadside stall in the middle stretch of the market, usually with people waiting for a seat.
Xia Gang Ming Peng Stinky Tofu
下港名彭臭豆腐
A stinky tofu stall in the middle of the street on Raohe, in front of 189 Raohe Street. The signature is crisp fried stinky tofu: fried until the skin crackles, then split open and filled with a house sauce and garlic, and served with Taiwanese pickled cabbage and coriander. Besides the fried version there is a spicy duck-blood stinky tofu, and oyster omelet and braised pork rice are on the menu too. Press write-ups from 2022 through late 2025 give the same address and a 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. schedule, so it is a stinky tofu stall with a documented track record at the market. If the smell worries you, start with the fried version.
Known forStinky Tofu
How to find it: In the middle of the street in front of No. 189, further into the market than the Fuzhou Shizu pepper bun stall.
Plan your visit
Where and when
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Raohe Street, Songshan District, Taipei (from Bade Road Section 4 beside Ciyou Temple west toward Tayou Road)
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Taipei Travel Net, the city government's official tourism site, and Chinese Wikipedia both list the market daily from 17:00 to midnight. Individual stalls vary: the pepper bun stall opens around 15:30, many stalls wind down around 23:00, and some close on Mondays or Tuesdays, so check 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
- Early evening just after opening (about 17:00-18:30) is usually quieter and the pepper buns are fresh; weekend nights are the busiest.
- Crowds
- Busy
- Average spend
- NT$200–400 · per person
- Payment
- Cash
- Getting around
- A single straight street of about 600 meters, easy to navigate, though evening crowds make it hard going for wheelchairs and strollers.
Good to know
- A pepper bun fresh from the oven is scalding inside; give it a minute or two.
- Seats at the herbal rib soup and stinky tofu stalls are limited, especially on cold winter nights.
- The street is short, about ten minutes end to end when it is not crowded, but leave time for queuing.
- Some stalls keep a weekly closing day: Chen Dong is reported closed on Tuesdays and A Kuo Lu Wei on Mondays. If you have particular stalls in mind, check that they are open that day.
How to arrive
Getting there
- 2 min walk
Metro
Songshan
Songshan-Xindian Line (Green)
Exit 5, then about 100 meters on foot to the market gate.
- 3 min walk
Train
Songshan
TRA Western Line
The station is right beside the market.
History
A little history
Raohe Street was once called Xikou; in the Qing period it was a cargo transfer point on the Keelung River, and under Japanese rule it was renamed Songshan. After the river silted up and Bade Road was widened, the street became a secondary road and trade dropped sharply. According to Chinese Wikipedia, the city government set up the tourist night market here in May 1987 in the hope of reviving local business.
Both Michelin and Chinese Wikipedia call Raohe Taipei's second tourist night market, after Huaxi Street. Songshan Ciyou Temple is the landmark at the entrance; temple records give 1753 as the year the site was chosen and 1757 as the year it was completed.
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Photo credits (8)
- Raohe Street Night MarketPhoto: Ji Soo Song · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Raohe Street Night MarketPhoto: Yosomono from Fukuoka, Japan · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Raohe Street Night MarketPhoto: 玄史生 · CC0 (opens in a new tab)
- Pepper BunPhoto: ThomasYehYeh · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Stinky TofuPhoto: takuma mori · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Braised Pork RicePhoto: 總統府 · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Ningxia Night MarketPhoto: Jonashtand · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Shilin Night MarketPhoto: Junyu-K · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab)