NVIDIA's Jensen Huang spotted Taipei market

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s weekend stop at Taipei’s Raohe Street Night Market became a viral side story to the company’s Taiwan visit after photos and video circulated online on May 24. Social posts showed Huang moving through the market as onlookers clustered around him, and one widely shared X post by Rnaud Bertrand helped push the images across English-language social media. NVIDIA later posted its own short video of the visit, calling it a “spontaneous stop” at Raohe. The market appearance landed in the middle of a closely watched Taiwan trip for Huang ahead of Computex 2026 and NVIDIA’s GTC Taipei programming. Taipei Times, citing CNA, reported that Huang arrived in Taiwan on May 24 and said he planned to meet clients and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Chairman C.C. Wei during the visit. NVIDIA and Computex organizers have separately said Huang will give a keynote at Taipei Music Center at 11 a.m. (youtube.com) Taipei time on Monday, June 1. ### Why did a night-market visit draw so much attention? Jensen Huang has become an unusually visible executive in Taiwan, where NVIDIA’s supply-chain ties and AI plans are followed closely. That made even an informal food stop noteworthy once videos showed him at one of Taipei’s best-known night markets. NVIDIA’s own event blog framed the Raohe visit as part of the buildup to GTC Taipei, writing on May 24 that “it’s not a trip to Taipei without a stop” there. (taipeitimes.com) Raohe Street Night Market is a compact, high-traffic destination in Taipei’s Songshan District, which helps explain the crowd scenes in the videos. Tourism descriptions identify it as a roughly 600-meter market known for dense foot traffic and food stalls, making it well suited to the kind of close-up encounters seen in the clips. ### What do the social posts actually show? (blogs.nvidia.com) Videos posted on May 24 showed Huang walking through Raohe with people filming him at close range and matching the “crowd” description later used by NVIDIA in its YouTube Short. The social framing moved quickly from simple celebrity spotting to jokes that Huang had become a “street food influencer,” a label that appeared in posts recirculating the footage. The available public material shows attention around the visit, but not any formal NVIDIA event at the market. (taipeitourism.org) Rnaud Bertrand’s X post was one of the most visible early shares in English, and the user’s footage and captions helped broaden the audience beyond Taiwan tech watchers. NVIDIA’s own repost-style treatment on YouTube added a company-side confirmation that the visit took place. ### What else was Huang doing in Taipei that day? Taipei Times reported that Huang went from Taipei Songshan Airport to NVIDIA’s “Meet-a-Claw” developer event in Nangang after speaking with reporters. (youtube.com) At the airport, he said he had “a lot to do” on the trip and referenced meetings with customers and suppliers. NVIDIA’s event blog said Huang also used the Taiwan visit to meet industry leaders, dignitaries, developers and employees ahead of the company’s Taipei conference schedule. (youtube.com) In remarks cited by the blog, he also hinted that he could provide an update on NVIDIA’s planned Taipei headquarters during the week. ### What comes next in Taiwan? June 1 is the next fixed date on Huang’s Taiwan schedule. (taipeitimes.com) Computex organizers and NVIDIA both say Huang’s keynote will be held at Taipei Music Center at 11 a.m. local time that day, with GTC Taipei sessions running from June 2 through June 4 and Computex 2026 set for June 2 through June 5. (computextaipei.com.tw) (blogs.nvidia.com)