Market shopping in Asia
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Dong Ba Market
Vegetarian food has a long tradition in Hué. Stalls in the Dong Ba Market serve lots of options on the first and 15th days of the lunar month. You'll find several vegie options on most menus in town, some using soya-bean mock meat.
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Chiang Mai Night Market
Chiang Mai Night Market is a fresh-food market that's particularly busy with locals shopping for takeaway Thai and northern Thai food. A night food market then sets up across the street next to the moat and stays open past midnight.
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Suvastu Gallery
This large emporium has a good range of handicrafts, carpets and jewellery. This isn't really a place for bargains; however, much of the stock is of high quality. Cheaper shopping options exist near the corners of GT Rd and New Rd.
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Talat Thong Khan Kham
This market north of the centre in Ban Khan Kham is open all day, but is best in the morning. It’s one of the biggest in Vientiane and has virtually everything, including good food. Nearby are basket and pottery vendors.
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covered market
Long-term visitors will want to visit Margao for its markets - the covered market in the centre is one of the largest and most raucous in Goa, and there's a fish and produce market in a vast complex near the Kadamba bus stand.
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Jln Penang Street Market
On the last Sunday of every month, the pedestrian section of Jln Penang hosts a street market selling Malaysian arts and crafts such as dolls, batik, pottery, T-shirts and painted tiles, as well as items like bottled chutney.
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Pasar Belitung
Pasar Belitung is a 2km belauran. It's also known as Pasar Tunging, Banjar for squat toilet, once the area's commercial staple. Visit during early evening to sample modernised, urbanised traditional life.
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day market
The quiet west coast features some of the best seafood on Samui. Na Thon has a giant grocery and a day market – it's worth stopping by to grab some snacks before your ferry ride.
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Chatuchak Weekend Market
You’ve got to see it to believe it: this market is a veritable village of vendor stalls selling clothes, decor, junk and collectibles. It is the number-one shopping destination in the city despite the heat and crowds.
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Wudaokou Clothing Market
Cool kids head to this two-storey market in their droves, drawn by both the cheap prices and the funky styles which have often been adapted from Korean or Japanese designs. It’s at the junction with Xueyuan Lu.
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Jaeraesijang
This indoor market covers a mixed range of goods. It’s quiet and out of the way, so there must be bargains around. You can watch rice cakes being made using traditional methods. Upstairs is a trot dance club.
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Pasar Kumbasari
Across the river from Pasar Badung, this huge market has a profusion of handicrafts, a plethora of vibrant fabrics, and costumes decorated with gold. It's a modern, multilevel building of shops and stalls and you should just plunge at random into the canyons of colour.
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Tibetan Market
There's no need to lug warm clothes up to Ooty - you can pick up jackets from Rs100 and hats and gloves from Rs10 along Commercial road and at the Tibetan Market almost opposite the entrance to the Botanical Gardens.
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Suan Lum Night Bazaar
The Night Bazaar specialises in modern Thai souvenirs, clothes and handicrafts. Highlights among the 3700 stalls are handmade jewellery, one-of-a-kind designer T-shirts and a unique furniture and home decor section.
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Psar Leu
Psar Leu (Upper Market) is where the locals come to shop. This vast complex offers pungent prahoc (fermented fish paste), fragrant fruits, household goods and anything else a Cambodian family might desire.
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Talat Thiphanet
Talat Thiphanet is a large municipal market that offers all manner of goods and sees surprisingly few tourists. A great place for a find. If you're after greenery the Chiang Mai Plant Market is just up the road.
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Mangaldas Market
Mangaldas Market, traditionally home to traders from Gujarat, is a great place to browse for Indian textiles and traditional clothes, such as duppatas (the long scarfs atop the salwar kameez.)
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Merkuri Market
Merkuri Market is sort of a flea market for food where you can bargain with individual vendors for all manner of imported goods, meat, cheese and vegetables, as well as luxuries such as caviar and crab sticks.
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Dōngmén Market
Another chaotic market popular for tailored suits and skirts, and cheap ready-to-wear clothes, with competitive prices. Be extremely careful of pickpockets. By metro, get off at Laojie station and leave from exit A.
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Flea Market
Jakarta’s famous flea market is in Menteng. It has woodcarvings, furniture, textiles, jewellery and many (often instant) antiques. Bargain like crazy – prices may be up to 10 times the value of the goods.
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Tromsikhang Market
The bazaar-style Tromsikhang Market area in the old town has the widest selection of dried fruits and nuts and is the place to buy such Tibetan specialties as tsampa (roasted-barley flour) and yak butter.
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Tolkuchka Bazaar
The best shopping experiences are to be had at one of Ashgabat's many markets. Tolkuchka Bazaar is possibly the most fabulous in Central Asia. Whatever you want, it's sold at Tolkuchka. Expect to haggle.
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Tamu
A tamu (weekly market) is held on Friday in the car park in front of the main market. Bisayah villagers, many of whom still speak the Brunei Malay dialect, come in from all around the district to attend.
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Chowk
Bhopal's two main shopping areas are New Market and the chowk off Hamidia Rd. While similar items can be found in both markets, prices are more reasonable in the atmospheric chowk.
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Food Market
Outside Mǎdié'ěr Bīnguǎn, a busy snack shop serves kebabs, dumplings and ice cream; nearby, a food market has stalls offering buns, cookies, sausages, fruits and sweets.
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