This compact, crowded food-focused market is a local favourite. There's the full gamut of Southeast Asian cuisine, as well as plenty of ingredients to cook up your own tropical storm. It's open year-round.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Darwin attractions

1. Northern Centre for Contemporary Art

0.06 MILES

The NCCA is a really small space that shows some changing and challenging exhibitions. It's worth checking out while doing the Parap Village Market.

3. Fannie Bay Gaol Museum

0.66 MILES

This interesting (if slightly grim) museum represents almost 100 years of solitude. Serving as Darwin's main jail from 1883 to 1979, the solid cells…

5. George Brown Botanic Gardens

1.1 MILES

These 42-hectare gardens showcase plants from the Top End and around the world − monsoon vine forest, the mangroves and coastal plants habitat, baobabs,…

6. Mindil Beach Sunset Market

1.27 MILES

Food is the main attraction here − from Thai, Sri Lankan, Indian, Chinese and Malaysian to Brazilian, Greek, Portuguese and more − all at around $6 to $12…

8. Myilly Point Heritage Precinct

1.68 MILES

At the far northern end of Smith St is this small but important precinct of four houses built between 1930 and 1939 (which means they survived both the…