8 May 2023
Closed on Monday
Keelung night market on a Monday
I had done a bit of research for my dinner, selecting a few options in the nearby area. Google maps has great photo integration for restaurants in Taiwan, every orange icon that identifies a food place has hundreds if not thousands of pictures of everything on the menu, plus photos of the menu itself, and also the inside and outside of the place. Generally you can see a photo that was taken today for most places. This is all very handy. They also show the opening hours. I did not check that. And a lot of places, including the 3 I had chosen to check out, are closed on Monday.
I also think the very busy night market was not very busy. Although the food street part of it had everything open, so if you did ever want food from the Keelung night market, perhaps Monday night is the night to go.
Weather update - rain has stopped, most people still have their umbrellas up, just in case. Also there is something in the DNA of people form East Asia, as soon as there is any kind of rain, they start coughing uncontrollably. I have observed this in numerous countries.
I wonder if this could be measured like quantum entanglement, put a Taiwanese, Chinese, Korean and Japanese guy in a room. They have no way to observe the weather outside. Wait for it to start raining. See if they start coughing.
My Nobel prize is surely in the mail?
Night market, pre night. This is about 30m from the door of my hotel.
More pre-night night market. If you look up Keelung and don't see the Hollywood sign, this is what you will see.
The night market temple has a dude on a golden horse. People bow to him.
Tonight's strange animal encounter, a cocky, at a bank. It's deposit cocky. We had an argument in broken Chinese.
Further footpath explanation was requested. I found a bit with not many people. You can walk along here and it is undercover. You can see how each store maintains their own bit, and there are steps between each shop even though the road if flat, just because of how they designed their shop - to annoy people in a wheelchair. What is not pictured is when someone decided to erect a wall here, in the middle of the tunnel of shopfronts, just to be even more annoying so you have to walk on the road.
Random street scene. Wide angle distortion.
Tonight's about to fall down at any moment now buildings.
This is kind of the main road down to the port, that is not an elevated highway.
My alternate alternate dinner option was a westernised pasta restaurant. I chose this pasta dish because it had HEALTHY!!!, 3 thumbs up, and a 10 star rating all printed on it. There is chicken, which I guess is the healthy bit. The menu picture had a lot more vegetables. It was also pretty oily, and at $10, not cheap.
There is the Keelung sign. The letters change colour. This was a very under exposed photo I bumped up in lightroom, hence all the noise if you pixel peep. It is +3.17 stops and +98 shadows.
You can see the sign for my hotel in this photo, just before the 7-eleven. I do not have to go far for night market food.
Everything is orange, so I don't know what shes smiling about.
And for the last shot tonight, the same place as before. I expected those lanterns to be lit up!