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Albert Cuypmarkt
To see where Amsterdammers get their daily shopping, take a tram to the busy, cosmopolitan food and clothes market in the Albert Cuypstraat You can find cheap shoes and handbags as well as large round, discount cheeses, flowers, fruit and vegetables.
Herbs and fresh fish here are particularly good.
Opening Times:
Mon - Sat until about 4 pm
Amsterdam
Nieuwmarkt and Noordermarkt (farmers markets)
These two farmers markets sell mainly organic products and food brought in by local producers. There are often apple juice samplings and some very tasty breads available. The atmosphere is really friendly and there are always surprising fruit and vegetables in the baskets underneath the awnings. You might find purple carrots or Japanese fungi. (These are good places to find unusual delicatessen items to take home but they are also nice places to wander through on a Saturday afternoon.
Opening Times:
Sat from around 9 am - 5 pm
Amsterdam
Dappermarkt
A bustling, crowded market to the east. You can find lots of bargains here, from electric toothbrushes to huge ripe watermelons.
Opening Times:
Mon to Sat until around 4 pm
Amsterdam
Ten Kate Market, Kinkerstraat
Kinkerstraat is a lively street full of cheap clothing shops, Turkish cafes and bakeries and an excellent African world music shop. There are branches of HEMA and Albert Hein as well as the street market. Here you can get cheap clothes, vegetables, and delicacies such as olives, feta cheese and salami on the delicatessen stall.
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