The hunt for the Raohe Street Night Market dog

Roahe St Night Market is not far from Wufenpu, so it always made sense for us to hit both spots in the same day. I’m not a big fan of night market food really, but Mr P is, so a tour of the night markets is something we do when we visit Taiwan.

While we were there, this dog caught our attention because it was walking along by itself but was dressed in a harness with lights. So we didn’t think it was a stray.

We soon lost the dog in the crowd, but bumped into other shop dogs instead.

Including a dachshund manning a stall for dog toys and accessories. Life is hard for a shop dog. At first the dachshund was snoozing on his perch in a round ball, but was poked awake by tourists who were wondering if the round ball of fur was “real”. – –

Anyway, we made our way around the market and what do you know, we suddenly found the dog we were hunting for. I couldn’t see the dog very well when we were following it. I only saw that it had blinking lights on. But now that we had a chance to look at it, it actually was wearing pretty halter straps, with the lights. So I couldn’t understand why it was left to its own devices outside.

Since Mr P was buying food from the stall. I grabbed the chance to ask the staff more about the dog that appeared to be quite happy hanging around them at that moment.

The young man denied that the dog belonged to the stall. Apparently, nobody in the market knew where the dog came from! He shared that they only know that every evening without fail, the dog will visit, all geared up, and make its rounds around the market as if on patrol.

And during its rounds, it does what all dogs do best, hang around and beg for food. Hah!

Certainly looks quite excited at the food smells if you ask me…

I guess we shall never solve the mystery of the patrolling Roahe Street Night Market dog. Maybe you can solve it when you next visit. ;)

Getting to Raohe Street Night Market 

Description: Raohe Street Tourist Night Market is 600 meters in length, near Shongshan Railway Station. There is a decorated-archway in front of the entrance.
Opening hours: 5pm – 12am.
Address: Raohe Street Night Market, 105, Taipei City Songshan District, Taiwan [map]

By Taipei MRT:
Take Taipei MRT-Bannan Line (捷運板南線) to MRT Houshanpi Station (捷運後山埤站). Walk towards Yongji Road (永吉路) from exit no. 4 of MRT Houshanpi Station (捷運後山埤站) and make a turn at Songshan Road (松山路). Raohe St. Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市) is reachable after passing the overhead bridge of Songshan Railway Station (松山火車站) to Raohe St. Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市)

More modes of transport and directions from travelking.com.tw

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