China News Service, Haikou, July 18 (Zhang Qianyi Chen Sihao) Hainan powder, pearl milk tea, Taiwan oyster fried, Taiwan kimchi stinky tofu, charcoal grilled oysters, Thai papaya salad, small octopus balls...by Xu Zhengzhang and his wife from Qiongtai, Taiwan The designed and invested Baodao Night Market opened in Haikou on the evening of the 17th. This "24-hour closed" night market brings together many Qiongtai snacks and Southeast Asian specialties to satisfy diners.
The night market was named "Treasure Island Night Bazaar" because Xu Zhengzhang and his wife Zhan Xiali were from Taiwan Island and Hainan Island respectively. They met in Shanghai due to work, fell in love, worked together, and then returned to Hainan to take care of their families. A love story about "Women Singing Husbands". In addition, the night market not only gathers food from all over the mainland, but also introduces many famous snacks from Taiwan.
The Baodao Night Market has an area of nearly 4,000 square meters, and is divided into specialty snack areas, restaurant and bar areas, cultural and creative commodities areas, Good Morning Lane, All-Day Art Gallery, and weekend market markets.
Xu Zhengzhang and Zhan Xiali participated in the design of several night markets in Haikou. Zhan Xiali, the secretary general of the Haikou Night Market Development Association, told reporters that they summed up their experience and turned the Baodao Night Market into a comprehensive night market integrating business, culture and tourism, and took the lead in promoting the use of environmentally friendly degradable materials and the use of garbage classification. Since last year, they have been bridging and actively introducing Taiwanese snacks, hoping that this trendy and smoky night market will attract more young people to check in and eat.
Zou Hongqing, a Taiwanese youth who specializes in Taiwanese tofu snacks at the night market, said that he has lived on the mainland for more than ten years and is also familiar with Hainan. "I used to mainly sell snacks in Taiwan, and reduced the rental fees in the night market, so the pressure is not too great, I hope to do better."
"I used to work for other people in Taiwan. I came to Hainan as a boss." Huang Jingshan, the owner of "Elder Huang Ozaki", is full of expectations for future life. "I have been running around before, now I want to find a place to settle down and do business. It happened that friends from Taiwan businessmen opened a night market in Hainan and went to sell food here.
The night market is an important part of Haikou's development of the night economy. In 2019, the sales of 12 large-scale night markets in Haikou City amounted to nearly 600 million yuan, with a flow of 12 million people, an increase of 66% over 2018.
Liu Geng, director of the Hainan Provincial Taiwan Affairs Office, said that with the advancement of the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port, the night market with unique tropical island characteristics will usher in a new development opportunity, and hope that the night market operators in Qiongtai and Taiwan will strengthen exchanges and promote the economy of the Hainan night market Development, promote Qiongtai's economic exchanges and cooperation, and turn the Baodao Night Market into a new landmark of Hainan's night economy. (Finish)