Tawau Sunday Market

When : Every Sunday morning
Location : Corner of Jalan Apas and Jalan Kuhara
open : 6:00 am to 12:00 noon
with over 200 stalls

Tongkat Ali - Eurycoma Longifolia Jack (Long Jack)

Selling here are also experts in traditional herbal who collect tongkat ali (Sabah’s ‘natural Viagra’) and other miraculous herbs which they bring to sell in this sunday market.

More about herbs in Malaysia : http://www.herbsportal.com

Most local Malaysian who come to Tawau never miss the opportunity to buy salted fish to bring back.. The price is cheap and more variaty to select from. Here in this sunday market you can find dried squid, shark fin, salted fish, and many more..

卖的都是沙巴的一些特产，像当地人制作的竹藤用具，花草树木，当地的小吃，还有一些沙巴特有的当地水果如橄榄，蛇皮果.慢慢逛,順便體驗當地文化,还蛮有趣的。

This interesting street market is held each Sunday morning at the corner of Jalan Apas and Jalan Kuhara
See the local indigenous community selling their produce such as vegetables, fruits, sea products and handicrafts together with other stuffs that you get from mobile traders.
This is when a mix of races – Bajau, Kadazan/Dusun, Indonisian, Chinese, and Malay – come to sell their goods and socialise.

An astonishing array of produce from forest vegetables, wild orchids, dried shark fins, tropical fruit and edible seaweed.

There are 1,200 species of orchids found in Sabah. In this Tawau Sunday Market you can see in full display about 50 species.

Most orchids are highly evolved plants and the majority of them are epiphytic on trees while some are terrestrial. They have green leaves for photosynthesis and roots that captured nutrients from the leaf litter caught on tree trunk and branches, or in the case of Bulbophyllum beccarii, in cup-shaped leaves of the plant itself, roots than grow and ramify the leaf litter collected there, to extract nutrients