Last night, my wife and i went to to the first permanent and genuine night market in Auckland. It is held on every Saturday night at the carpark underneath The Warehouse, Westfield Shopping Centre in Pakurang . Pakuranga is about 30 km from where i stay and will take about 20 minutes by car on a Saturday evening when there is no traffic jam using North- west Motorway and Southern Motorway.
Saturday Night Market, starts from 6pm to mid night rain or shine as it is held in a covered carpark and has been running for one year and is hugely popular with anything from 8,000to 12,000 visitors each Saturday night.
It is similar to the pasar malam in Malaysia. It offers around 200 stalls with about 80 amazing food stalls cooking up tasty street snacks and delicacies eg satay, dumpling, Dutch pancake, roast pork bun, "yow-char-keu", noodle, spainish donut, seafood platter etc from many countries eg Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, Holland, China etc.... There are also crafts and arts, costume jewellery, hand bags, clothing, fashion accessories, cosmetic, mobile phones and accessories, fresh produce and vegetables,sound activated flashing t-shirt, body massages, spine and health check, live entertainment, cultural performers, clowns and kids rides, fortune tellers, foot massage and airbrush tattoos and more. A candyfloss man was making floss on a stick bigger than a kids’ head as shown in the photo.
A new Sunday Night Market, opened on 30 October 2011 with a bang, hiss and a roar with over 10,000 visitors. The Sunday Night Market promises to be just as popular as the Saturday Night Market. It starts from 5.30 to 11 pm at Westfield shopping Centre in Glenfield North Shore,
Please go to the below link to see a video of the night market posted on youtube by Asia Downunder which is a program shown on NZ TV1 every Sunday morning :
Tradition of the Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JDCWBj9vfiI&noredirect=1
Click on the photo to enlarge
For your info, there is also a Thursday Night Fish Market in Auckland CBD from 5.00 pm to 9.00 pm.
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