Pasar Payang or Central Market is one of the most popular tourist spots in the state. Take your pick from fresh produce, tasty local snacks to traditional fabrics such as batik and songket or handicrafted ornaments.
On the ground floor, trading stalls are covered with fresh fish, meats and vegetables of all colour, many manned by kindly-faced old ladies, ever smiling, inviting you to their wares. This is where you'll find the unfamiliar and sometimes the bizarre. Instead of lettuce and tomatoes, here you'll find a whole range of traditional greens – pegaga, ulam raja, petai – normally eaten raw and seldom found at conventional urban grocers. Each of these vegetables is said to possess medicinal properties which can keep check almost every ailment there is. Peria is good for kidney ailments, pegaga for high blood pressure. You can get fresh produce of local delicacies such as the 'keropok lekor', made of grounded fish and flour, and 'serunding', the spicy flavoursome meat floss.
Other popular shopping spots in the city include Kraftangan Malaysia and Sutera Semai.
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