March 2020

With a wide range of shopping malls in Kota Kinabalu, Gaya Street Sunday Market remains a prime destination for locals and tourists-alike. Gaya Street has transformed into a vibrant marketplace over the years. In the early 1920s, local farmers and fishermen met once a week at Bond Street (former name for Gaya Street) to barter […]

Tamu, a weekly market popularly known in Sabah, a collection of sights, smells and sounds as traders gather to sell their homegrown produce. They sell from delicious home made cakes to leafy greens then resistible local fruits with bargains. Traders usually arrive at the tamu ground as early as 5AM. During 1970s era, my late