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April 17, 2009, Friday
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A late night seafood market in Hangzhou encourages you to prolong your night's entertainment well into the wee small hours. Nancy Zhang samples the delights of an eating spot that has become an institution In Asia some of the tastiest food is found well after dinner is over. Late night markets lure hungry revelers with a huge variety of rich and satisfying snacks.
In Shanghai impromptu fried rice, noodles and kebab stands appear through the city after 10pm.
But while Shanghai's street food stands encourage you to eat quickly and be on your way, a late night seafood market in Hangzhou encourages you to prolong your night's entertainment well into the wee small hours.
Opened in March last year, the Huanglong Market was established following the Ninth Street Food Festival in Hangzhou.
Inspired by the popularity of the street food festival, the local government envisioned a large, permanent area serving food well into the night the whole year round. It would be hygienic and well regulated.
The result is a walled compound of 13,000 square meters that seats 3,000 customers, and has parking for 400 cars in downtown.
The market is something of a cross between conventional restaurant streets, seafood wet markets and those late night barbecue stalls more commonly found in South Korea.
Like the small, tarp-covered stalls in South Korea, the Huanglong Market specializes in seafood washed down with alcohol. It has comfortable places to sit and to linger until 3:30am.
But the seafood is on display like a wet market where you might buy ingredients for a meal. Walking through the area, row upon row of eager restaurant owners point to their tanks of live fish and crabs, and heaps of counters laden with frozen seafoods.
Like Chinese seafood restaurants, you can choose your meal from the counters and tanks. They are then cooked freshly, exactly the way you like, and served with accompanying side dishes.
Many of the stalls serve Wenzhou-style dishes. Wenzhou is a nearby port city in Zhejiang Province, famous for seafood and for being the cradle for Chinese entrepreneurs. Some touts will assure you their seafood has been shipped directly from Wenzhou.
The Huanglong market is much bigger than the seafood stalls in South Korea.
The size of the Huanglong Market attracts large groups of families, friends and local businessmen. Dozens of tables belonging to the 40 different stall owners are gathered under the tents covering the market. By midnight, half the seats are full and rowdy drinking and eating is well underway.
The noise and merriment are not confined to the customers. Touts stand by each stall trying to convince visitors to eat at their stalls - another characteristic of Asian night markets. It can be a challenge navigating through the touts and a visit is not always for the faint hearted.
Address: 1 Huanglong Rd, Hangzhou, inside Huanglong Stadium
Hours: 5:50pm-3:30am If you go
You can take a bullet train from Shanghai South Railway Station to Hangzhou - it only takes 78 minutes. Or drive yourself via the A8 Expressway which takes about two hours.
After arriving at Hangzhou, you could take transit buses Y9,K850, 21/K21, or 23/K23 to the seafood market.
In Shanghai impromptu fried rice, noodles and kebab stands appear through the city after 10pm.
But while Shanghai's street food stands encourage you to eat quickly and be on your way, a late night seafood market in Hangzhou encourages you to prolong your night's entertainment well into the wee small hours.
Opened in March last year, the Huanglong Market was established following the Ninth Street Food Festival in Hangzhou.
Inspired by the popularity of the street food festival, the local government envisioned a large, permanent area serving food well into the night the whole year round. It would be hygienic and well regulated.
The result is a walled compound of 13,000 square meters that seats 3,000 customers, and has parking for 400 cars in downtown.
The market is something of a cross between conventional restaurant streets, seafood wet markets and those late night barbecue stalls more commonly found in South Korea.
Like the small, tarp-covered stalls in South Korea, the Huanglong Market specializes in seafood washed down with alcohol. It has comfortable places to sit and to linger until 3:30am.
But the seafood is on display like a wet market where you might buy ingredients for a meal. Walking through the area, row upon row of eager restaurant owners point to their tanks of live fish and crabs, and heaps of counters laden with frozen seafoods.
Like Chinese seafood restaurants, you can choose your meal from the counters and tanks. They are then cooked freshly, exactly the way you like, and served with accompanying side dishes.
Many of the stalls serve Wenzhou-style dishes. Wenzhou is a nearby port city in Zhejiang Province, famous for seafood and for being the cradle for Chinese entrepreneurs. Some touts will assure you their seafood has been shipped directly from Wenzhou.
The Huanglong market is much bigger than the seafood stalls in South Korea.
The size of the Huanglong Market attracts large groups of families, friends and local businessmen. Dozens of tables belonging to the 40 different stall owners are gathered under the tents covering the market. By midnight, half the seats are full and rowdy drinking and eating is well underway.
The noise and merriment are not confined to the customers. Touts stand by each stall trying to convince visitors to eat at their stalls - another characteristic of Asian night markets. It can be a challenge navigating through the touts and a visit is not always for the faint hearted.
Address: 1 Huanglong Rd, Hangzhou, inside Huanglong Stadium
Hours: 5:50pm-3:30am If you go
You can take a bullet train from Shanghai South Railway Station to Hangzhou - it only takes 78 minutes. Or drive yourself via the A8 Expressway which takes about two hours.
After arriving at Hangzhou, you could take transit buses Y9,K850, 21/K21, or 23/K23 to the seafood market.
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