Adelaide Central Market & Chinatown Walk
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Adelaide Central Market & Chinatown Walk

Explore Adelaide's covered Central Market — the Southern Hemisphere's largest undercover fresh produce market — then walk through adjacent Chinatown for a morning of food discovery in the city's culinary heart.

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    Adelaide Central Market

    Adelaide Central Market has operated continuously since 1869 — 80 stalls selling fresh produce, seafood, cheese, smallgoods, and specialty foods draw thousands of shoppers each day to the glazed Victorian market building in the city centre.

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    Chinatown Moonta Street

    Moonta Street in Adelaide's compact Chinatown connects the Central Market to Gouger Street — the strip of Asian restaurants, grocery stores, and BBQ shops represents Adelaide's most concentrated international food precinct.

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    Gouger Street Restaurant Row

    Gouger Street is Adelaide's most celebrated restaurant strip — the range from Lebanese to Vietnamese to South Australian seafood restaurants on a single street reflects the city's reputation as Australia's food capital.

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    Adelaide Town Hall

    Adelaide Town Hall (1866) on King William Street is the city's grand civic building — the ornate Renaissance revival facade and the clock tower define the ceremonial heart of the most elegant grid-planned city in Australia.

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    Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga

    Victoria Square is the geographic centre of Adelaide — renamed Tarntanyangga to acknowledge the Kaurna people's term for this place, the square's fountains, trams, and public art mark the convergence of the city's main axes.

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    Rundle Mall

    Rundle Mall is Adelaide's pedestrian shopping heart — the eastern end at Rundle Street transitions from department stores to the independent cafes, vintage shops, and bar laneways that define Adelaide's urban culture.

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