Liouhe Night Market (六合夜市) in Kaohsiung City is the most popular night market in the country, followed by Taipei City’s Shilin Night Market (士林夜市) and Yilan County’s Luodong Night Market (羅東夜市), an online survey showed yesterday.
Liouhe garnered the highest votes in each of the six categories for being the “most eco-friendly,” “most tourist-friendly,” “most charismatic,” “most organized,” “most popular” as well as the night market with the best food. The votes fluctuated drastically during the process, with Huayuan (花園) Night Market in Tainan taking an early lead.
The focus, however, soon shifted to the race between Shilin and Liouhe, commonly referred to as the most famous night markets in the north and south respectively. At times, Luodong looked like it might upset the big two, but settled for third.
PHOTO: CHANG CHUNG-YI, TAIPEI TIMES
The survey, organized by the Tourism Bureau, was launched last month and ended at midnight yesterday.
The validity of the survey has come into question, however, as supporters may have inflated the votes by voting multiple times. Others said the survey inadvertently turned night markets into places to mobilize voter support for political candidates competing in the November special municipality elections.
Tourism Bureau Deputy Director-General Wayne Liu (劉喜臨) said that as both the elections and night markets were part of people’s lives, any interaction between the two was “natural.”
“The purpose of the survey is for visitors and local governments to pay more attention to the content and quality of night markets,” Liu said.
Liu said the competition involved three stages. First, a group of judges recruited by the bureau selected 10 night markets from 30 recommended by county and city governments. The second stage was the online survey.
“The first stage counted for 20 percent of the total score, as did the second stage. The remaining 60 percent will be given by seven judges recruited by the bureau to pay impromptu visits to each night market,” Liu said. “They will include travel agents handling in-bound tours, gourmet and travel writers from abroad.”
The results of the third stage of the competition will be announced next Wednesday.
The other night markets included in the survey were Miaokou (廟口) in Keelung, Huaxi Street (華西街) and Ningxia (寧夏) in Taipei City, Wunhua Road (文化路) in Chiayi City and Jhonghua Street (中華街) in Fongshan City (鳳山), Kaohsiung County.
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