Taiwan is a country which is located in eastern Asia. This little island also had several names such as Formosa. It means beautiful island. In Taiwan, there has an unique Taiwanese culture which is night market, and it attract a great deal of tourists come to Taiwan every single year. Delicious Taiwanese food is famous in the world. Night markets will provide many kinds of Taiwanese food such as Taiwanese style fried chicken, Lou mei and bubble milk tea.
Not only Taiwanese, every time when foreigner come to visit, they enjoy the night market culture too. Night markets are similar to street fair. They usually have above fifty pedlars in a market. People can find popular Taiwanese traditional or new “Xiaochi” -Taiwanese traditional food-in markets. Most of night markets operate every single day, but some small markets will have different schedule. People can find night markets in urban or suburban area. Every night market has various special products which make them distinctive. For example, guancaiban which is a xaiochi that only provide in night market in Tainan, and Kaohsiung which has famous herbal tea that people will never forget the flavor of it. Those night markets also became illustrious tourist spots.Xiao chi, food and beverage are very cheap in night markets. Those dishes are carry-out food. However, some pedlars will offer small folding table that customers can sit down and eat their food easily and comfortably. If customers were unable to eat any more, they could take those dishes with them, and it would note charge money again. Dishes in night markets usually around thirty to one hundred Taiwanese dollar. It depends on what people eat and buy. For instance bubble tea seldom above forty Taiwanese dollar, and famous food, Lurou fan will cost around fifty dollar. In Taiwan, people can use less than eight Taiwanese dollar and have a Sumptuous meal.
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| ● Famous Herbal tea in Liuhe Night Market. |
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1. http://night-market.tw.tranews.com/Show/images/Column/5170_1.jpg
2. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3300/3431693374_a39b0fc3be_o.jpg
3. http://www.itravelqq.com/uploadfile/2010/0414/20100414034740890.jpg
4. http://072881888.tw.tranews.com/
Hello, Eileen.
ReplyDeleteThis is a well thought-out and discussed text. In terms of the visual aesthetics of this post, one of your pictures is overlapping with your links which makes it a bit distracting to read. Also, I'd like you to take a look at your title and consider an alternate way of introducing our topic.
D. Kopp
Who is ur audience? Is this text for tourists or food enthusiasts? U did mention about the food prices in Taiwanese dollars, but it would have been extremely informal if u included the conversion between Taiwanese and US dollar. I liked the pictures, since it creates visual image of the markets. However, it would be more helpful if u included small text on the pictures to explain which market it is, and u could also add pictures of different markets. The text seems to have redundant parts about the foods and markets, so I think u could separated the paragraphs for each markets and include bold titles. Overall its a good text. Good job
ReplyDeleteHi Eileen,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post since I have never been to Taiwan or a Night Market and I thought you provided a lot of useful and interesting information about this cultural tradition in Taiwan.
I think that you could improve your post a lot if you could subdivide your content into smaller paragraphs. Since there is a lot of content, it would make it easier to read and absorb all the information that you provide. While I was reading I was already getting a sense that you started out with a general overview of what night markets are and have grouped your content into the different types of markets there are in Taiwan, and also into the major markets that stand out to the public. If you could use this structure that already exists in your text and just create paragraph breaks, it would be easier for the reader to follow along.
Another thing that I noticed is that you use some language that I am not familiar with and could use some explanation. For example, you use the term "Xiaochi" but you don't explain what that is. If you followed your first mention of this word by a short explanation or example, it would be easy for the reader to remember what it means when the word is mentioned again later in the text.
One last little thing; you could change your title to draw the reader in. You don't have to mention the homework number in the title, instead be creative with it!
Great work!
Orsolya