Pasar Payang still a hit with visitors
BernamaPublished: Jun 8, 2014 12:16 PM | Updated: Jun 8, 2014 5:51 PM
Although beset with numerous controversies over proposals for its rebuilding, the Kedai Payang Main Market continues to be the focus of local and foreign tourists during the current school holiday.
A Bernama survey found the road to the market badly congested for a kilometre by the onslaught of visitors wanting to get numerous products of quality at reasonable prices.
A Terengganu-born who now resided in Johor Baru, Abdul Razak Embong, 41, said the market must be retained with several improvements because it is a tourism site synonymous with Terengganu and the economic lifeblood of the local community.
Although beset with numerous controversies over proposals for its rebuilding, the Kedai Payang Main Market continues to be the focus of local and foreign tourists during the current school holiday.
A Bernama survey found the road to the market badly congested for a kilometre by the onslaught of visitors wanting to get numerous products of quality at reasonable prices.
A Terengganu-born who now resided in Johor Baru, Abdul Razak Embong, 41, said the market must be retained with several improvements because it is a tourism site synonymous with Terengganu and the economic lifeblood of the local community.
"Actually, the market is quite congested, hot and uncomfortable...but I think the authorities can make several changes without having to demolish it for rebuilding purposes.
"If we notice, people come here because the goods are cheap compared to elsewhere, so the problem of discomfort has fallen into second place, what is important is the low price and quality of the products," he told Bernama in Kuala Terengganu today.
Other than selling wet commodities like meat, fish, vegetable and fruits, the market was also the focus of tourists because it offered batik, songket and silk of high quality for sale, with prices as low as RM280 to RM350.
In fact, the abundance of brass products and handicraft sold at the market,which were identified with Terengganu, were popular with tourists who bought them as souvenirs.
A private sector employee, Faridah Jalal, 53, said the uniqueness of the Payang Market lies with its clamorous and congested environment, like presently.
"I don't know what is unique about the market if it is demolished and rebuilt and modernised. In fact, the prices of its goods may go up in tandem with the comfort enjoyed by the visitors," he said.
Recently, Menteri Besar Ahmad Razif Abdul Rahman, during his visit to the market, gave the Kuala Terengganu City Council one month to decide on its fate.
- Bernama
A Bernama survey found the road to the market badly congested for a kilometre by the onslaught of visitors wanting to get numerous products of quality at reasonable prices.
A Terengganu-born who now resided in Johor Baru, Abdul Razak Embong, 41, said the market must be retained with several improvements because it is a tourism site synonymous with Terengganu and the economic lifeblood of the local community.
"Actually, the market is quite congested, hot and uncomfortable...but I think the authorities can make several changes without having to demolish it for rebuilding purposes.
"If we notice, people come here because the goods are cheap compared to elsewhere, so the problem of discomfort has fallen into second place, what is important is the low price and quality of the products," he told Bernama in Kuala Terengganu today.
Other than selling wet commodities like meat, fish, vegetable and fruits, the market was also the focus of tourists because it offered batik, songket and silk of high quality for sale, with prices as low as RM280 to RM350.
In fact, the abundance of brass products and handicraft sold at the market,which were identified with Terengganu, were popular with tourists who bought them as souvenirs.
A private sector employee, Faridah Jalal, 53, said the uniqueness of the Payang Market lies with its clamorous and congested environment, like presently.
"I don't know what is unique about the market if it is demolished and rebuilt and modernised. In fact, the prices of its goods may go up in tandem with the comfort enjoyed by the visitors," he said.
Recently, Menteri Besar Ahmad Razif Abdul Rahman, during his visit to the market, gave the Kuala Terengganu City Council one month to decide on its fate.
- Bernama
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