Top 10 Taiwan Night Market Foods in 2026

A face-sized slab of marinated chicken, breaded and fried, dusted with five-spice salt.

Sweet corn basted with a sticky soy-ginger glaze and charred over coals.

Thick beef cubes blowtorched tableside and sprinkled with garlic chips and salt.

A hollowed-out fried bread box filled with creamy seafood chowder — a Tainan original.

Crisp waffle shells filled with red bean, custard, or taro and cooked on a rotating mould.

Chewy deep-fried spheres of mashed sweet potato that puff up golden and hollow.

Egg batter cooked into puffy dimpled sheets, torn apart and eaten with toppings.

Eggs repeatedly braised and air-dried until they shrink into chewy, intensely flavoured nuggets.

Soft glutinous rice shells wrapped around scoops of taro, mango, or peanut ice cream.

A face-sized slab of marinated chicken, breaded and fried, dusted with five-spice salt.

Sweet corn basted with a sticky soy-ginger glaze and charred over coals.

Thick beef cubes blowtorched tableside and sprinkled with garlic chips and salt.

A hollowed-out fried bread box filled with creamy seafood chowder — a Tainan original.

Crisp waffle shells filled with red bean, custard, or taro and cooked on a rotating mould.

Chewy deep-fried spheres of mashed sweet potato that puff up golden and hollow.

Egg batter cooked into puffy dimpled sheets, torn apart and eaten with toppings.

Eggs repeatedly braised and air-dried until they shrink into chewy, intensely flavoured nuggets.

Soft glutinous rice shells wrapped around scoops of taro, mango, or peanut ice cream.