Seven Years of Friday Mornings
We’ve walked this market every week since 2019, comparing the same twelve spice stalls and mapping the food worth the queue.
Why We Built This
We started in 2019 after watching a tourist pay four times the going rate for cashews because nobody told her ten percent off was normal. The notes began as a single page pinned by the entrance; now it’s the whole site, updated most Fridays before we’ve even left the market.
We Name Stalls, Not Just Sections
What We Actually Watched For
Most market guides point you at ‘the spice section.’ We point you at stall fourteen, third row from the west gate, because that’s who actually has the good turmeric this month, not last season’s photo.
We watched turnover, not appearance — a stall with a queue of locals at eight a.m. beats a photogenic display with nobody buying. We also watched whether vendors weighed honestly, on a scale we could see, not one turned toward them.
“The market doesn’t need us to make it exciting. It needs someone writing down which stall actually washes its hands between customers.”
Start Here
See which spice vendors we’d actually send a friend to, before you’re standing in front of all twelve.