Night markets in Taipei are hugely popular for low price eating and shopping. Most night markets in Taiwan open around 4 pm and crowds reach their peak between during the late evening hours. Businesses continue operating well past midnight. Shilin Night Market has become the largest and most well-known night market in Taiwan, especially with regards to food, and is a favorite focal point for Taipei’s night life among residents and tourists alike.
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Visiting Taiwan was as much an eye-opening experience as it was a learning one. You’ll see in the photographs below the streets are filled with people going somewhere and doing something in spite of the rain. Where I come from, people stay home or run to the nearest shelter as soon it starts to drizzle and by the time it starts to pour, the streets become deserted save for cars (because for obvious reasons, people stay dry in them). I love rain — heavy and light — because I’ve always found that vertically falling water adds that extra bit of character to life. Not being one to shy away from photographing in the rain, I continued taking pictures of interesting moments that unfolded. The lesson I learned: I battled rain drops smudging the lens by constantly wiping it clean with a HOYA Pro lens cloth. This inconvenience would have been prevented if I had brought along a lens hood but that’s an inconvenience in itself.
It's wet and it's cold. Non-stop people traffic, rain, colourful lights make for an interesting composition. If I had a tripod, I would shoot this in slow shutter so the people are a ghostly blur lending to a more dramatic composition.
Like all major cities, street food vendors are a familiar sight in Taipei. Rain or not, people gotta eat.A toddler is being fed by her dad along while the couple strolls through the busy streets of Wufenbu. Here's a picture of someone taking a picture of this interesting looking spiral food on a stick. Have no idea what it's called but I kinda gathered it's popular judging from its popularity (see photo below)
Evidently, not everyone is happy being soaking wet.
While shopping in Singapore recently, I checked out a couple of stores at VivoCity that carry interesting tee shirts including one that sells only humorously lewd ones. I found this tic-tac-toe piece very funny especially when you consider this trite saying “Think Outside The Box” as a creative license to cheat. “It’s a beautiful convention and it really is what this world is coming to. Being creative and working hard is not enough. You have to do a little bit of cheating.” says tshirtgroove.com
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