Riverside Market
Seven-day indoor food market of local produce, butchery, bakery, fishmonger and street-food stalls.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Riverside Market in Christchurch follows one of the traders behind its counters: Venu Jarugula, an engineer from India who arrived in the city in twenty fifteen with a degree and few openings. It touches on a power plant in Rajasthan, a forklift in Ashburton and a meat works, and asks how a man with no plans to cook for a living ended up here. Best heard standing near the South Indian counter.
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