This Pasar jongkok, is a unique kind of market place, the vendor and the hawker just use pedestrian and road side to display their goods.
This Pasar Jongkok only open especially on Saturday, Sunday and other national holidays
Pasar Jongkok mean that buying and selling activities while the vendors and the buyers are both squating.
Because the goods is only put on matt or just usling lower base, due the temporary space.
This activities have different name too :
- Pasar Kaget, Or Sudden Market, because before only empty street and suddenly became a busy market sometime can make a traffic jam.
- SOGO Jongkok, Squating SOGO, SOGO is a well known Japanese Hypermart, so this market sometime selling goods that you can find at SOGO but with the lower price.
- Pasar Tumpah, Spill over market. Because the the activities is high many buyer or people just want to do sight seing , the people use not only road side but spill over to the road and make traffic jam.
They use umbrella or blue color lastic to cover the goods and bargai activities there is no rigid shelter.
Some time parts of the goods are inside the car or on top of motor bike saddle.
Good that we can find at Pasar Jongkok are :
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Silverware,
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home appliance households
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Sport Shoes
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plastic ware
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curtain
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T-shirt
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Lamp and house electrical parts
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die casting car replica
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dolls and children toys
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Street food
The way they sell if no standard. Some vendor put the fix price on the cardboard and ather still open for bargaining, because most of housewives in my hometown love and passionate to do bargaining.
The area that now common for Pasar Jongkok are
Here some activities of Pasar Jongkok.
