TOURIST TRAP? Another incident at the Taipei attraction this week has highlighted its growing reputation for price gouging and it might be getting a bad reputation among foreign visitors
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 18, 2019
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Taiwanese netizens were buzzing with discussion and negative talk about Taipei’s Shilin Night
Photo: screengrab from the Internet
In a posted message on the Web site Baoliao Gongshe, the woman said she visited Shilin Night Market on Wednesday and ordered two portions of grilled beef cubes, which cost her NT$600.
“The vendor did not put up a price list, and I ordered two portions, thinking the price would be around NT$200, which was what I paid for grilled beef cubes at other similar vendors. But I was shocked when the proprietor told me to pay NT$600,” the woman said.
“I had this item at other places, so I thought it would be the same prices as others, a small portion for NT$100 and a large portion for NT$200. That was why I did not ask for the price beforehand,” she added.
“As the food was already prepared and done with, I reluctantly paid the money… But I did not enjoy eating the beef cubes, due to feeling that I was cheated,” she said.
One person wrote, “Maybe it was the way you dressed, the vendor thinks you were a tourist.”
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