Daily News | FDR Park’s Southeast Asian Market reopens this weekend
, which officially broke ground last May and is scheduled to last until 2026.) The market’s season ends in October.
— are labor-intensive and lovingly prepared by the vendors in the days leading up to the weekend. Market coordinator Catzie Vilayphonh recommends bringing cash and arriving early.in Philly’s culinary landscape, it has blazed a long path to reach that point. It started informally, with Lao and Cambodian refugees gravitating to the park after they resettled here in the ’70s and ’80s.
The vendors started setting up gradually over the years, with one woman selling chicken skewers, another beef sticks, yet another papaya salad. “It would multiply because somebody else would also be selling something else that you’re like, ‘Oh, yeah, I like that too. Let me go make my rounds,” Vilayphonh said. She remembers spending summer afternoons in her youth at FDR Park in the ’80s going from vendor to vendor, assembling an all-out picnic for her family.
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