Taiwan Night Markets food court closed after 8 months
Taiwan Night Markets was the talk of the town when it opened at Orchard Cineleisure last July. But after just eight months of operations, the food court quietly shut down on Mar 31.
The eatery was opened by the Fei Siong Group, which owns a bunch of successful F&B chains like Malaysia Boleh!, Encik Tan and EAT.
Taiwan Night Markets seemed a promising concept when it first opened, boasting a sprawling 300-seater space with 24 food stalls. The eatery offered a wide variety of popular Taiwanese street foods, including oyster mee sua, Taiwanese sausage with sticky rice, QQ sweet potato balls and peanut ice cream rolls.
"A DECLINE IN CONSUMER SPENDING"
But a few weeks ago, even before Mar 31, a colleague who was in the area noticed that it had pretty much shut down, with the place “dark and quiet”.
Speaking to 8days, a spokesman for Fei Siong Group said they closed Taiwan Night Markets due to “the escalation in cost of operations, especially in trying to rigorously adhere to our basic principle of (selling) everything authentically Taiwanese, a decline in [consumer] spending, as well (as the availability of) a myriad of (other) food choices available”. As such, they decided that it was “no longer sustainable and feasible to continue this project”.
Though Fei Siong Group confirmed that this is “a permanent closure at Cineleisure”, it seems that there’s still a glimmer of hope for fans of the concept.
“Everything remains subject to further discussion,” said its rep, adding that “we will not rule out the possibility of bringing back the Taiwan Night Markets”.
Fei Siong Group declined to comment on whether they’ll be opening another Fei Siong concept like Malaysia Boleh! in the markets’ former space. When 8days called Cineleisure’s front desk for details on who is taking over the space, we were told “there’s no tenant now”, and that they “don't know who will be taking over (the unit)”.
Da fuck was a seasoned F&B player like Fei Siong even thinking in the first place, setting up shop at a deader than dead venue? If anything it got what it fucking deserved!
Lest you are unaware, TaiWan Night Markets is operated by Fei Siong Group; scoped out the food court with some friends when it first launched and only have this to say: shitty fare happening at fucking expensive prices. Naturally we never went back again.
It's shutting down for good come Sunday:
Lest you are unaware, TaiWan Night Markets is operated by Fei Siong Group; scoped out the food court with some friends when it first launched and only have this to say: shitty fare happening at fucking expensive prices. Naturally we never went back again.
Cineleisure Orchard is officially a doomed and cursed mall, nuff said
It sure has seen much better days.
They should hire a couple of Taiwan xmms to help out at the stalls, I am sure the whole place will do a roaring trade again in no time
Ghost town 就 ghost town, 没有办法的 :(
RIP to it in advance 🙏
Looks like the 7th month ghost festival came real early there ;)
😲😲😲