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Snake Alley () or formally known as Huaxi Street Night Market or Huaxi Street Tourist Night Market () is the oldest international tourist destination of Taiwan. The market is located near a well-known temple, Mengjia Longshan Temple as well as other night markets located on Guangzhou Street, Wuzhou Street and Xichang Street. The Huaxi Street Night Market shines in its own unique fame; the distinct feature that distance the Huaxi Street Night Market from the other night markets is the entrance of the market is welcomed with a Chinese traditional structural gate, with red traditional lanterns hanging to create a distinctive national feature; the distinctive gates leads to a roofed indoor market, which further intensifies the sense of local and traditional Taiwan feel. The Huaxi Night Market is a two-block long night market in Wanhua District, the oldest district of Taipei, Taiwan. It is noted to provide various local snacks, seafood restaurants that serve traditional Taiwanese dishes and many delicacies including snake blood and meat, turtle blood and meat and deer penis wine, which can't normally be found anywhere else. But, what stands out the most from the crowd are the various snake delicacies and drinks that the market has to offer; hence the emergence of the nickname "Snake Alley". Many Taiwanese have a negative view of Snake Alley, which was once a legal red-light district.〔(Things Asian ).〕 Adventurer Charley Boorman visited and tried some of the delicacies such as snake penis and turtle testicles on offer during his television series ''By Any Means 2'' in 2009. ==History== The Huaxi Street Night Market has a history of over 50 years, as the safety and quality of the night life was not always what we can see today. Up until the 1990s, the Huaxi Street Night Market was once a red light district, with pornography shops and strippers congregating along the two sides of these streets. Prostitutes could be easily found in the brothels in the area, where they waited for customers in plain view. Many of these were quite young, clearly minors and had been sold into this life by their parents. It was not until 1991 that the Taiwanese government banned prostitution all throughout Taiwan, although it is still common. As a result, the quality and safety of the night market has seen improvement. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Snake Alley (Taipei)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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