Petak Sembilan Market
Chinatown wet market of tarp-roofed lanes selling softshell turtles, live eels, herbs and festival goods.
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This guide to Petak Sembilan Market in Jakarta's Glodok Chinatown starts among the plastic tubs of softshell turtles, live eels and roped frogs that line its lanes, and asks who all of it is really for. It follows the food families of nearby Gang Gloria, from a coffee house opened in nineteen twenty-seven to a third-generation stew cook who remembers far bigger crowds. Best heard in the morning, standing among the basins under the tarp roofs.
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