An old-school village spirit can be found at Brisbane’s bustling Sunday markets – havens of good food, craft, coffee and community.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Exiting Woodridge train station on a Sunday morning offers the dislocating feeling of having suddenly landed in the middle of a street market in Hong Kong, Bangkok or Phnom Penh.
The diversity of humans here is equally vivid: African and Islander people, Thais and Cambodians, women in burqas, and elderly Sikh gentlemen in turbans.from his retired father, Paul.Global Food Markets Logan In its infancy, the market was modest, with just a few stalls; now there’s more than 100, including a street food alley along Station Road, parallel to the train line.“I love to come in the morning and eat pad thai, and skewers, and tom yum soup,” Khieu says.“In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge executed intellectuals, so the refugees who made it here were farmers, and they brought that knowledge to Australia.
Logan City has a long history of welcoming migrants, and the Global Food Markets have enabled many to have an income and find their feet.
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