Market sights in Malaysia
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Weekend Market
The Weekend Market, locally known in Malay as 'Pasar Minggu', is a Kuching institution that dates back several decades. Every weekend, traders and farmers from around the city and the surrounding villages and longhouses converge on a compact area in the Satok neighbourhood, setting up wooden stalls and colourful tarpaulin rain covers, and sell their products, ranging from fresh fish to wild jungle ferns, power tools to herbal cure-alls.
It's a garrulous gathering and a large proportion of the neighbourhood's residents, and some from farther away, show up to do their grocery shopping for the week. It is also a boon for self-catering travellers.
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Bazaar Baru Market
This lively market sells clothes, toys, buckets, stationary, noodles, spices, fresh meat and live, flapping catfish, as well as a staggering array of weird and wonderful tropical fruit. Overweight cats loiter around the wet market looking for scraps, and locals struggle through the narrow aisles with huge bags of shopping. Just wandering round is a heady, sensory experience, particularly for the sense of smell.
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Kuala Terengganu Chinatown
Kuala Terengganu's tiny Chinatown is a compact area centred on Jln Kampung Cina (also known as Jln Bandar). It's home to the usual array of small Chinese shops and restaurants, as well as Terengganu's oldest Chinese temple, the Ho Ann Kiong, dating from the early 1800s, though much restored since. It's a good place to sit outdoors and enjoy an evening drink and some excellent food.
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Chinese Street Market
On Sunday a very lively Chinese street market takes over the entire length of Jln Gaya, with all kinds of food and goods (including some great pancakes) on offer. On Chinese New Year it goes completely crazy - you'll hear the gongs and dances starting around 07:00!
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Wet Market
Running west of the main market towards Jln Tun HS Lee is Chinatown's pungent Wet Market, where locals shop for fresh fish, vegetables and gruesomely anatomical cuts of meat.
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Wet Market
Running west of the main market towards Jln Tun HS Lee is Chinatown's pungent Wet Market, where locals shop for fresh fish, vegetables and gruesomely anatomical cuts of meat.
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Jonker's Walk Night Market
On Friday and Saturday nights, Jln Hang Jebat turns into the not-to-be-missed Jonker's Walk Night Market. Here you'll find heaps of snacks and hawker's stalls where you can graze and nibble to make a satisfying meal. For self-catering or curiosity, there's a local vegetable market (Taman Laksmana) on Saturday night from around 17:30.
Dr Ho Eng Hui eats fire and throws knives, but the real reason to stick around and watch this Jonker's Walk Night Market kung fu master is to see him pummel his index finger into a coconut. If you're not familiar with the strength of a coconut's husk, think back to Tom Hanks in the film Castaway. Remember how he spends hours hurling a coconut…
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