Pasar malam is a Malay word that literally means night market, "pasar" being related to "bazaar" in Persian. A pasar malam is a street market in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia that opens in the evening, usually in residential neighbourhoods.[1]
It brings together a collection of stalls that usually sell goods such as fruit, vegetables, snacks, toys, clothes, movie discs and ornaments at cheap or at least reasonable prices. A pasar malam often takes place only one to a few days of the week, as the traders rotate around different neighbourhoods on different days of the week. Haggling over prices is a common practice at such markets.
In the Netherlands, a yearly Indonesian festival is held in The Hague under the name Pasar Malam Besar.
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See also
- Pasar pagi
- Wet market
- Night market
- Hawker centre, open-air complexes in Malaysia and Singapore housing many stalls that sell a variety of inexpensive food
- Kopi tiam, literally a "coffee shop"
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