Dallas Traders Village – Buy, Sell, Socialize

Part of our plan the next morning (Sunday) before heading home was to get some fruits at the Mexican (La Marketa) produce market and some Asian goodies at the Vietnamese market. We unfortunately had to spend an hour driving around the entire Dallas uptown, downtown, and areas around the highway where we could eat some breakfast. There was none in sight. We finally gave up and saw a Krispy Kreme store by the highway. There was an organic market near it with a cafe, so we ate there instead. A two-person band was playing acoustic music while I savored my Mediterranean Chicken Roll-up and bisque soup. Everybody else seemed vegetarian. They even put cucumber slices on the water dispenser. Talk about being green!

We were making “green” jokes about it (pun intended!) until Joe had the idea of bringing me to Traders Village.

My advice is that if you go on a Sunday at Traders Village, expect to crawl through traffic. When we got there, I didn’t realize how massive it was. You couldn’t see the one end of the market to the other. Even if you thought you have walked all over the place and seen everything, consider yourself mistaken. Traders Village is a congregation of mostly Mexican vendors with oodles of Chinese (bootleg?) products. There were some good stuff worth checking out, but I couldn’t find any shoes to buy! I had wanted to get some because I was wearing big leather boots that were unfit for walking, especially at the gigantic Traders Village grounds. How ironic at such a big market there was nothing for me!

I realized Traders Village is a more expensive version of the real Asian/Chinese flea market, except that the vendors were Mexicans (or Indians) and the mostly Hispanic crowd visit the place to socialize with friends and fellow traders.