Antique Market
Street of family-run stalls selling porcelain, wayang puppets, brass lamps and retro curiosities.
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This guide to the Antique Market on Jalan Surabaya in Jakarta's Menteng district starts with a headcount of stalls and a trader's complaint that does not seem to fit it. It follows the market's head, Tamim, back to the tarpaulins and secondhand spoons of its early years, and to the governor who sent antique dealers here in the nineteen seventies. Best heard walking slowly past the shopfronts, among the wayang puppets and brass lamps.
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