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Dihua Street Market

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When you venture to Taipei's Dihua Street Market, make sure you empty your pockets beforehand. No, there's no pickpockets to fear. Instead, you will be filling up your pockets with sweets and sundries handed out by the vendors hoping to get you to buy their sundries.

The market, also called Grocery Street, is busiest during the afternoon and probably the most fun too. As I wandered the several blocks of stalls, I found myself sampling plenty of delicious candies and some foods so foreign my tongue didn't know what to do with them. Since plenty of Chinese herbal medicines are sold there, perhaps I wasn't eating candy at all...

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Dihua Street Market - 001

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Dihua Street Market - 002

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Dihua Street Market - 003

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Dihua Street Market - 004

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Dihua Street Market - 005

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Dihua Street Market - 006

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Dihua Street Market - 007

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A Buddhist monk at Dihua Street Market in Taipei, Taiwan.