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1. Normal University Night Market is a medium-sized night market in Harbin City. It is named after its proximity to Harbin Normal University. The main street from southwest to northeast is about 300 meters long. At night, there are many people and fireworks. There are many kinds of snacks and groceries. It is a good place for shopping, food tasting, parent-child entertainment, and couples dating.
① Address: No. 25, Wenxing Street, Nangang District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province
② Transportation: Direct bus access, difficult to park by car
③ Peak season: None
④ Time: 2 hours
⑤ Ticket price: Free
2. There is only one long street in the night market. The main decoration is color screens and colored lights. The street is brightly lit by lights:
① Night color screen: On the large screen above the east gate, the pattern will change cyclically, including forest butterflies, cosmic stars, tropical oceans, roses, etc.
② Color lights: Rows of arched colored lights span the top of the head, changing in a cycle. Pattern
3. Snacks, mostly common varieties in night markets, the ones that impressed me the most are:
① Qiulin Kvass: more than 100 years of history, produced by Qiulin Company, China's first multinational commercial enterprise, a beverage fermented with Russian bread, with an alcohol content of 0.1%
② Xinjiang Huoyan Mountain Baked Buns: highly recommended, looks like chicken legs, with cooked noodles wrapped with minced mutton inside, with good color, aroma and taste
③ Oil-fried: It is a long strip of lean meat after the tendons are removed from the heart meat, crispy and fragrant
④ Oil-wrapped Liver: Oil-wrapped mutton liver skewers, cost-effective Bi Gao, 10 yuan for 5 skewers, eye protection
⑤ Grilled pig tail: good taste, tender and fragrant
⑥ Palace crispy beef pie: the longest queue, but I didn’t try it because of time constraints
⑦ Drink stand: lights and glass bottles interweave, visually bright, with old-fashioned sodas such as Dabaili, Dayao, Beibingyang, Huayang, etc.
⑧ Sea urchin steamed egg: full visual effect
⑨ Insect feast: grasshoppers, rainforest scorpions, centipedes, cicada monkeys, soybean worms, etc., high in protein
⑩ Flower cake: natural petal raw materials, petals piled up into a mountain, the fragrance of flowers is overwhelming
⑪ Beef bones Marrow: The thick beef bones are inserted with straws, and the bones piled up into a mountain are spectacular. ⑫ Grilled fish: Freshly grilled slender medium-sized fish. 4. In terms of groceries, the ones that impressed me the most are: ① Harbin 2025 Asian Winter Games Official Licensed Goods Retail Store: 1 box-type stall, which contains official goods for next year's Asian Winter Games. ② Meat plants: densely packed and high-value. ③ Woven products: colorful and diverse. ④ Anime figures: numerous, densely lined up and spectacular. 5. The tour ends here. It takes 1 hour to just browse without buying. This is the second visit. The first visit was on August 21, 2022. There are many more stalls and decorations now than two years ago. The full-day trip is over, and it is planned to go to the 4A scenic spot Xianglu Mountain the next day.