The Sunday market at Satok,Kuching city starts regularly on Saturday afternoon and will end the following Sunday afternoon to make way for street sweepers and cleaners clean up the place come Monday.
On any office days ( Mon - Fri ) the place will resume to become paid car parking areas.
I visited the Satok Sunday market area Saturday night and found the place buzzling with night shoppers who prefer to go out after their day's work and the temperatures much cooler. The choices of fruits, vegetables,meat, fish, textiles, magazines, handicrafts, cooked food, etc here are a plenty.
The recently popular 'dragon fruit ' which is a kind of cacti are seen in the foreground. A kilo of these red-fleshed fruits can fetch RM 8 - 12 a kilo depending on size and quality.
Orchids in various forms and sizes are displayed. They can either be local varieties or imported ones.
Bargaining is the accepted behaviour here. If you don't bargain the extra profits goes to the trader. Drive a hard bargain and you'll be pleasantly surprised at how cheap things can be at the Satok Sunday market. To recap, I find that people shop at the Satok night market for the four C's. Convenience, Choices, Cheap and Cool.
On any Sunday in Kuching you can feast your eyes with a vast collection of flowers and colourful foliage. The happening is as always at the Satok Sunday market . Orchids, Hibiscus, Bougainvilleas, Roses, Coleus and many more varieties of indoor plants and fruit trees are in abundance to cater for the diverse interests of garden enthusiasts or hobbyists. It is a great place to see the latest additions of plants for the eager consuming Kuching crowd.
At one corner of the market I was impressed by this rich collection of bougainvillea species. The colourful bracts of the bougainvilleas make up for their small significant flowers.
The above is my prized possession of the day, a begonia rex species. The colourful foliage with 'batik-like' impressions on the leaves are indeed awesome. The varying colours and patterning are a show of nature's masterly handiwork. Nature will forever continue to amaze me.
This variegated draceana species ( Draceana fragrans 'Massangeana') will do fine as an indoor potted plant.
This is the main Jalan Satok or Satok Road. Satok Road is a major shopping, banking and eating area in Kuching. On weekends city folks flock here to do their weekend shopping at the Sunday market which kick off on Saturday afternoon till Sunday morning. Daily in the evening one of the car parking spaces will be turned into a hawkers food centre .
It was a vintage Vespa sprint scooter I saw last Sunday at the Satok Sunday market. Many shoppers had a closer look at the old faithful. Judging from the registration plate number, the scooter must have been on the road for 50 years now. The proud owner now uses it as a 'traveling' shop selling small items like pickled fruits, sweets, packet drinks, tea and coffee satchets.
