Overview

Just half a block from the Lungshan Temple, you will find Taipei's famous Snake Alley. Along this food court-like street, there are plenty of snack shops offering hundreds of kinds of Asian style eats. But the alley is most famous for its snake shops - you can have snake soup or even sip snake blood here! The Taiwanese claim it increases sexual vitality and strengthens the lower spine area. Today, the snake shops are not as popular as they once were, having given way to Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese snack shops. From the Chinese-style hamburger to the bean curd junket, this is the right place to experience typical Chinese fast food. The snake alley is also popularly called as the night market.