Chiming Market, Traditional market in Qiming Village, Taiwan
Chiming Market is a two-storey reinforced-concrete building with a basement at the site of the 1904 Magong Market in Qiming Village, Magong. The ground floor and upper floor stand vacant, and the basement once housed Penghu's first supermarket, Zhongxin Supermarket. The structure is now dilapidated and closed.
Founded in 1904 as Magong Market beside the Anping Customs station, it was renamed Magong Market in 1920 and Chiming Market after 1945. A 1968 fire destroyed several wooden stalls; the remaining blocks were rebuilt in 1973 as a two-storey concrete building with a basement. The market closed in 1989.
Locals call it Kū tshài-tshī, "old vegetable market", a name that outlived the 1904 official title. Its basement housed Penghu's first supermarket, the Zhongxin Supermarket, and the upper floor once held the Haishen Western restaurant, which took song requests. The building now stands closed, with only a few former shopfronts used as homes.
The market is closed and its two-storey concrete building stands derelict; there are no vendors or opening hours. The structure is at the corner of today's Zhongshan Road, near the first fishing port, and can be viewed from the street. Access to the interior is not possible.
The market's basement was rented by a grocery store called Zhongxin Supermarket, the first supermarket in all of Penghu. The second floor once housed the Haishen Western Restaurant, which offered live requests for folk songs. The building has two above-ground floors and one basement level.
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