Market sights in Australia
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Central Market
Satisfy both obvious and obscure culinary cravings at the 250-odd stalls in Adelaide’s superb Central Market. A gluten-free snag from the Gourmet Sausage Shop, a sliver of English stilton from the Smelly Cheese Shop, a tub of blueberry yoghurt from the Yoghurt Shop – you name it, it’s all here. Good luck making it out without eating anything.
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Queen Victoria Market
This site has been the market for more than 130 years, prior to which it was a burial ground. This is where Melburnians shop for fresh produce including organics and Asian specialities. There's a deli, meat and fish hall as well as a fast food and restaurant zone. On Wednesday evenings from mid-November to the end of February, a night market with hawker-style food stalls, bars and music takes over.
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Sydney Fish Market
This piscatorial precinct on Blackwattle Bay shifts over 15 million kilograms of seafood annually, and has restaurants, a deli, a wine centre and an oyster bar. Chefs, locals and overfed seagulls haggle over mud crabs, Balmain bugs, lobsters and slabs of salmon. Check out the early-morning auctions on a behind-the-scenes tour, or sign up for a cooking class …the first person to crack the following joke will be asked to leave: ‘I’m on a seafood diet: I see food, then I eat it’.
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South Melbourne Market
The market's labyrinthine interior is packed to overflowing with an eccentric collection of stalls selling everything from carpets to bok choy (Chinese greens). Its hangover-relieving dim sims are famous and sold at various cafes around Melbourne (as 'South Melbourne Market Dim Sims' no less!).
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Gleadell Street Market
Buy a bag of nuts and shuffle past the fish caravan, the spruiking stallholders and hundreds of locals laden with a week’s worth of fruit and veg. This little open-air market is a genuine community experience, and a terrific start to any Saturday.
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Fishermen's Wharf Market
If you're visiting the Port on a Sunday, this waterside market has antiques, bric-a-brac and crappy collectables.
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Heritage Markets
Across the road from the original markets, the heritage markets overflow with souvenirs and crafts such as ceramics, emu oil, jewellery, clothing (lots of tie-dye) and pistachio-nut figurines.
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Rundle Street Market
Over in the East End, Sunday's Rundle Street Market is a string of food stalls, fashion, buskers, jewellery, arts and crafts.
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Prahran Market
The Prahran Market has been an institution for over a century and is one of the finest produce markets in the city.
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New Kuranda Markets
The first you come to if you're walking up from the train station; essentially just an ordinary group of shops.
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Kuranda Original Rainforest Markets
With revamped boardwalks terraced in the rainforest and wafting incense, the original markets first opened in 1978 and are still the best place to see artists such as glass-blowers at work, pick up hemp products, and sample local produce such as honey and fruit wines.
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Gilles Street Market
Kids' clothes, fashion, arts, crafts and hubbub take over an East End school grounds.
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Fremantle Markets
Originally opened in 1897, these colourful markets were reopened in 1975 and today draw slow-moving crowds combing over souvenirs. The fresh-produce section is a good place to stock up on snacks.
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Central Market
Satisfy both obvious and obscure culinary cravings at the 250-odd stalls in Adelaide's superb Central Market. A gluten-free snag from the Gourmet Sausage Shop, a sliver of English stilton from the Smelly Cheese Shop, a tub of blueberry yoghurt from the Yoghurt Shop − you name it, it's all here. Good luck making it out without eating anything.
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Yungaburra Markets
The Yungaburra Markets are held in town on the fourth Saturday of every month; at this time the village is besieged by people mooching among craft and food products.
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