Ximending is located in Wanhua District, Taipei City, Taiwan Province Province, China.
Ximending
Located in the northeast of Wanhua District, Taipei City, it is the most important consumer business circle in Taipei West District. The place name of Ximending comes from Japan. At that time, most residents lived in Taipei, and Ximending was their resting place. 1896, the first theater "Tokyo Pavilion" was established here, and 1922 was officially named "Ximending".
Block culture
movie street
From the 1930 s, Ximending became a famous movie street in Taipei. After Japan's defeat, its glory continued. Since the 1940s, every theater has been overcrowded, scalper tickets are rampant, and cinemas have opened one after another. Only the second section of Wuchang Street opened more than a dozen theaters, and its grand occasion can be seen from this. However, due to the gradual eastward development of downtown Taipei, many functions of Ximending were replaced and gradually declined in the 1980s. In the late 1990s, the Taipei City Government and local enterprises in Ximending redesignated Ximending as a pedestrian zone, and banned vehicles on weekends and legal holidays. Only then did these teenagers return to this area. In Ximending, almost every weekend, there are small concerts, book signing meetings, record sales meetings, and various film promotions, street performances and other activities are often seen. There are more than 20 cinemas in Ximending. You can find almost all the first-round movies in Taipei. There are about 6000 shops of all sizes.
Youth amusement park
Ximending is called "Harajuku" in Taipei. In addition to Japanese magazine shops, there are all kinds of Japanese books, records and clothes. Almost all of them are popular at the same time, and they are the paradise of the so-called "pro-Japanese faction". In addition to independent street shops, such shops are also concentrated in several professional commercial buildings in this area, among which the famous ones include Create Nian Commercial Building, Lion Grove Plaza, and even the later International Department Store and Eslite 1 16.
In addition, when Brigitte Lin was shopping with friends in Ximending, he was discovered by scouts and became a famous movie star.
However, due to the high concentration of teenagers, Ximending is also tied with the Eastern District and Shilin Night Market as the area with the highest juvenile crime rate in Taipei. In addition, Ximending is also a famous "aid communication" place in Taipei.
Hongbaochang
Hongchangbao is a form of karaoke in Taiwan Province, mainly distributed in Hankou Street, Emei Street and Xining South Road in Ximending Pedestrian Street.
The red envelope field originated in the1960s. At that time, it was set up in the form of Shanghai karaoke bars for officers and families of soldiers who came to Taiwan from Chinese mainland. At first, it was not called "red envelope field", because later, in order to encourage their favorite singers, some listeners would directly put their wallets in red envelopes and give them to singers during performances. Gradually, this type of karaoke bar is called the red envelope field.
In the early days, most of the songs performed in the Hongbao Theater were Shanghai pop songs from 1960s+0920-11950s, such as Genv, Dance Dress, Night Walk in Suzhou, Autumn Water and Iraqis, etc. Most of the audience are elderly veterans. In order to attract guests, karaoke bars will give singers other titles, such as "Little Zhou Xuan" and "Little White Light", and singers will deliberately imitate the singing methods of singers at that time.
However, with the evolution of the times and the change of the audience, the repertoire has also changed from the Shanghai period to the songs popular in Taiwan Province Province and Hong Kong in the 1970s, such as Mysterious Girl, Tears of Lovers, Unforgettable Memories, The Moon Represents My Heart, The Story of a Small Town and Ask White Clouds. The singer's stage body movements are also more lively than before.
The consumption in the field of red envelopes is not high, and singers often wear gorgeous dresses. One of the characteristics of the red envelope field is the exchange and interaction on the stage.
Flavor specialty
Ximending also has unique famous products, such as Yaping on Zhonghua Road, Azong Noodle Line in Hutong, Laotianlu who is good at pot-stewed, Chengdu carambola and honey coffee on Chengdu Road, as well as many Japanese restaurants (such as the beautiful garden on Emei Street) and various restaurants from other provinces that inherit the taste of China. These restaurants have built a bridge between the taste of old Taipei and new Taipei.
In the movie "Go Left and Right", the scene where Liang Yongqi looks for Takeshi Kaneshiro is Ximending. This also gives modern Ximending a new meaning.
sensitive
The popular business district developed by Ximending naturally drives the trend of gourmet snacks. The long local history and cultural development have made gourmet snacks famous in Taiwan Province Province and even in the world, and become a winning place for Taipei's tourism industry. "Laotianlu Luwei" is the first representative of Ximending cuisine, such as duck tongue, duck wings, chicken feet, chicken wings and dried bean curd. Pot-stewed food is the signature of Lao Tianlu, and it is the food designated by domestic and foreign tourists or big stars when they come to Taiwan. At the gate of Azong Noodle Shop, there are always many people holding a bowl of noodles to eat and drink, which is the only feature that Azong Noodle Shop can see. The noodle soup made of marinated large intestine, noodles, coriander, garlic paste and black vinegar makes people suck their fingers again and again. "Chengdu Yangtaobing" is a 50-year-old shop. All kinds of carambola cold drinks quench people's thirst in summer, as well as ancient tastes such as pineapple and plum. There are also Japanese cuisine in "Beautiful Garden", Taiwan Province snacks with "Duck's Flat", Wannian Tempura, spicy hot pot, Japanese curry rice and doughnuts in Ximending, all of which are not to be missed.