New Taipei's shopping is spread across old streets rather than one downtown: Yingge fires 80% of Taiwan's ceramics, Sanxia still hand-dyes indigo, and Banqiao stacks four department stores over one MRT station. Three days covers kiln, loom and mall.
Some 200 pottery shops line this 800m pedestrian lane, Taiwan's ceramics capital since 1804. Most open 09:00–18:00, later on weekends. Everyday rice bowls run NT$80–200, artist-signed teapots NT$3,000+. Many studios throw pots at the counter.
Lunch on the street's stalls — braised pork rice around NT$45, ceramic-pot chicken soup NT$120 — then cross to the New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum shop (09:30–17:00 weekdays, to 18:00 weekends) for juried contemporary work.
A dozen studios along Yingge Old Street run walk-in wheel sessions and hand-painting on bisque blanks. Wheel throwing runs NT$350–500 for 90 minutes; painted mugs NT$250. Firing takes three weeks, with domestic shipping added for around NT$150.
New Taipei's longest night market runs roughly 1.5km along Sanhe Road with a heavy non-food component: NT$100 T-shirt racks, phone-case stalls, socks at three pairs for NT$100 and knock-around sneakers under NT$500. Busiest 18:00–23:00.
A 260m row of restored 1920s red-brick shophouses with Baroque pediments, now holding craft boutiques, leather workshops and tea sellers. Shops trade roughly 10:00–19:00. The signature buy is Sanxia indigo-dyed cloth, from NT$300 scarves upward.
A free municipal centre reviving the Japanese-era indigo trade that once made Sanxia rich. Free entry, closed Mondays. Booked tie-dye sessions produce a finished handkerchief or tote for NT$200–450 and take about 90 minutes including oxidising.
Banqiao Station stacks Mega City, Far Eastern Sogo and Global Mall over one interchange — around 300 brands from Uniqlo and Muji to Taiwanese labels, plus a basement supermarket. Open 11:00–22:00, to 22:30 Friday and Saturday.
Banqiao's covered street market shifts from produce by day to a dense evening run of accessory carts, bag stalls and NT$39–99 homeware bins, wrapped around the Cifu Temple. Peak trading is 17:00–24:00 and it is a five-minute walk from Fuzhong MRT.
The riverside promenade and parallel Zhongzheng Road hold iron-egg vendors, fish-crisp packers and souvenir shops. Vacuum-packed iron eggs run NT$100–200 a bag, fish crackers NT$120. Most shutters go up around 10:00 and stay open past 21:00.
The lanes climbing off Zhongzheng Road toward Danjiang High School hide independent leather, ceramic and print studios, plus weekend handmade stalls at the restored warehouse park. Prints from NT$250, small leather goods NT$800–1,500.
Take the MRT down the Xinzhuang line for Global Mall's outlet floors — last-season Taiwanese and Japanese labels at 30–70% off, plus a large stationery and lifestyle level. Open 11:00–22:00 daily; connected directly to Xinzhuang Fuduxin Station.
An hour southeast of Taipei, Pinglin grows Baozhong oolong and its main street is lined with family tea houses selling direct from their own hillsides. A 150g tin of competition-grade Baozhong runs NT$600–2,500 depending on the harvest lot.