The World’s Best Street Markets
July 2, 2010
In street markets around the world, this is a personal experience of local culture. But also bring home memories; we tested the food consumed by locals and lots of fun. What are the best places to go and buy?
Chandni Chowk, Delhi
The first thing you’ll want to keep your visit to Old Delhi, is a turban. You’ll find the greatest variety of them in Chandni Chowk, while you will feel all the aromas of spices and seeds. There are also food of all kinds, thrift, gemstones and gold. In the two-km route will see hundreds of people of all faiths in the area with their typical costumes and various colors.
Portobello Road, England
A place called Portobello Road, London … If you love the relics of the past, you have to know. This is one of the largest antique spaces worldwide. London is great to know different fairs. This is especially great and has become more famous from the film Notting Hill. On Saturdays you’ll find over 1,500 suppliers of antiques and during the week, sale of food, especially fruits and vegetables.
It began in the nineteenth century as a trading area of plants and in the ’60s became the bazaar of old products it is today. Inspired a Cat Stevens song that bears the name of the street and it was used as a backdrop in the film Bedknobs and Broomsticks, by Angela Lansbury. Would you stop spending?
Grand Bazaar, Turkey
Roof, but occupy 65 streets and with the rules and bargaining for all others. It is a place nearly four thousand stores crammed with eleven doors. Jewelry, rugs, spices, silverware and lamps materials will make you feel in a Middle Eastern story with genies and magic carpets.
This giant of Istanbul is visited by over 400,000 people every day and was built for the first time in 1464 and rebuilt after an earthquake in 1864.
Chichicastenango, Guatemala
You’ll be surrounded by colors everywhere. This is a magical and unique in America and we assure you will not find anything about what they sell here in any shopping center in the big cities.
The area is basically Chichicastenango are Maya and families of various indigenous groups in Guatemala. They go to this market with the traditional clothes of each of their villages and market their typical foods, crafts and clothing. In addition, next to the posts are held rituals shamans. Open Thursday through Sunday next to the old Church of Santo Domingo, with its impressive architecture and mixture of Catholic and Mayan beliefs.
Albert Cuyp, Netherlands
This market began in the late nineteenth century with some vendors and others who settled in the street temporarily. Over time, it was filled with local and today operates Monday to Saturday from 9-18 or so.
Multiple cultures in one place! Here you will find food from around the world including Turkey, Cuba and Morocco. In addition, there is also clothing and other products at very good prices. If you’re buying, it is nevertheless a very interesting tour and you’ll find bars and ethnic restaurants nearby. It’s in the streets and Van Fredinand Bolstraat Woustraat, De Pijp area of Oud-Zuid, Amsterdam.
Damnoen Saduak, Thailand
Another experience unlike any in the “Venice of the East” in Bangkok. Here the fleet market! Instead of shopping, there are boats that sail through the canals. Traders have been there for their products, bump into each other by the waters and offer their goods by shouting.
Sometimes you get close you want to buy a hanging rod. There will also howls from customers trying to bargain the prices of souvenirs, clothes and even eaten raw or processed form. Buyers rent or buy boats approaching from the shore.
Starting at 8 am, start to see the first boats. Later, everything begins to be chaos in the crowd, because the place has become especially popular for tourism.
Naschmarkt, Austria
A place to live in Vienna Austria and global culture in your palate. Find vegetables, meat, bread, cheese, fish and all kinds of food in a place from Monday to Saturday and let you know a business practice that has more than 400 years. Do not miss the sushi, kaiserschmarrn, kebab and the most exotic meals, arriving from the former Yugoslavia, Turkey, China, Greece and many more.
And if you’re not ready to bring the produce to cook yourself, right next to the mile extension of the market, you can eat at bars and restaurants of varied international. Additionally, we offer clothing and other products. You can enjoy it every Saturday of the year.
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