{"id":550,"date":"2016-10-11T02:02:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T02:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/stories\/the-ultimate-darwin-market-guide\/"},"modified":"2022-04-21T01:28:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T01:28:49","slug":"the-ultimate-darwin-market-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/stories\/the-ultimate-darwin-market-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Darwin Market Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sugar bananas, dragon fruit, rambutans, durian. Sticky rice, papaya salad, egg custards. No, we\u2019re not at a produce market in Thailand. We\u2019re in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/Darwin.d6131317.Destination-Travel-Guides?brandcid=blog.darwinmarkets.author.expedia_131016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darwin<\/a>, where every weekend the local markets are bursting with fresh food and produce.<\/p>\n<p>When you think of Darwin do you think of fresh durian bigger than your head? Probably not. But the markets are a huge part of life for the locals, and prove that the Northern Territory is home to more than red dust and crocodiles. Here\u2019s our guide to Darwin\u2019s best markets.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/parapvillagemarkets.co.nz\/index.php\/markets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parap Markets<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Darwin locals rise early to beat the heat, so to beat the crowds, Parap Markets is best tackled early. Make a beeline for the car park, where food stalls set up from as early as 1am to secure their favourite spot. They\u2019ll start serving food from 6am and by lunch time have lines three and four deep. Your best tactic at Parap is to divide and conquer \u2013\u00a0grab one of the plastic tables and some chairs tucked under shade cloths and send someone out to gather the food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugar bananas, dragon fruit, rambutans, durian. Sticky rice, papaya salad, egg custards. No, we\u2019re not at a produce market in Thailand. We\u2019re in Darwin, where every weekend the local markets are bursting with fresh food and produce. When you think of Darwin do you think of fresh durian bigger than your head? Probably not. But&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/stories\/the-ultimate-darwin-market-guide\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Ultimate Darwin Market Guide<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,4,30,6,86],"tags":[194,182,54,91],"authors":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-destination","category-experiences","category-explore","category-food","category-oceania","category-shopping","tag-darwin","tag-markets","tag-northern-territory","tag-shopping","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Ultimate Darwin Market Guide | Expedia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/stories\/the-ultimate-darwin-market-guide\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Ultimate Darwin Market Guide | Expedia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sugar bananas, dragon fruit, rambutans, durian. 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