Talk:Night market/Archives/2013

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Oppose full merger. By all means, mention and refer to Pasar malam in the article Night market but don't merge. "Night market" is a very general overview of the subject and may be expanded to describe such markets all over the world. "Pasar malam" is a night market in a very specific area, south east Asia, and has its own characteristics. Just consider searching for the subject within the given categories: it would be odd to add south east Asia categories to the general article on night markets. --JohJak2 07:48, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

I concur and oppose as well. A night market is very Chinese and a unique institution in and of itself. The article on Pasar malam is similar, but night markets are a huge Chinese institution, going on modst nights, not just some. This article should be expanded significantly as well. I don't think that the UW TSA night market merits such a big mention as it's an annual event, but absolutely nothing like a bigger night market. The one in Richmond is much similar to the ones in Taiwan and probably merits more mention, and goes on all summer. Aep 01:02, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

These article seems a bit to Chinese-centric. their are many other Asian countries with night markets in areas were there aren't high levels of Chinese living their.4.238.142.179 (talk) 00:35, 22 November 2007 (UTC) - That is awesome, but can someone add those? I do not know enough about those to be comfortable writing in that section. Please, please contribute to the article if you have information that you know is factual, which you can show or cite. Thank you so much for improving wiki! :) 192.33.240.95 (talk) 21:38, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Taiwan?

 * The night market, however, originated in Taiwan,[citation needed] which hosts numerous night markets in each of its major cities

The claim night markets originated in Taiwan is unsourced and seems a bit strange given the history section says they've been around since the Tang Dynasty (which seems more believable). Nil Einne (talk) 08:45, 23 July 2008 (UTC) -

I agree, I will try to find an article on this later. But, that it "originated in Taiwan" is extremely improbable. 192.33.240.95 (talk) 21:27, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

opening hour
what is the opening hour of night market? They close before midnight, right? --Kerry7374 (talk) 13:02, 13 January 2009 (UTC) -

I am not certain about the night markets outside of Taiwan, but in Taiwan it's just after dark. A lot of night markets open as soon as it's dark out; so it's not an exact time that is consistent every day, but is instead, just closely following sunset.

For the newly open night markets, they tend to close earlier. This is because they are still in a courting-phase. They are trying to keep business but also trying not to anger the actual residents of the areas they are in. The night market vendors have no legal right to be there, and if they anger the residents by causing too much noise, the residents can call the local police on the market and the police will drive the vendors away. If many residents call, the local police will start to patrol more frequently and this causes problems for the vendors. So, at least initially, smaller and newer night markets only stay open until about 11pm or 12pm.

For older, more established markets such as Shilin, the vendors often stay out much later. Some of the vendors are still there at 2a.m. The cool thing is, the actual day-time stores then hire on second shifts (though, this is usually just allowing the kids in the family to run part of the business and make an allowance) when the night markets become more permanent. At the more established night markets, these day-time stores are usually the first to close down for the night; typically 2-4 hours prior to the closing of the stalls. 192.33.240.95 (talk) 21:26, 30 November 2012 (UTC)