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🗓️ 30 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Dan here with another sporkful reheat for you. |
0:05.3 | Summertime is in full swing. |
0:07.1 | And to me, one thing I think of when I think of summer is just outdoor food markets. |
0:11.0 | And there are great ones all over America. |
0:13.8 | This one is all about the Queens Night Market, an opener market in New York City that is chock full of amazing food from all around the world. |
0:20.5 | Now, we first put this |
0:21.4 | episode out in 2020 when the market was shut down because of COVID, but I'm pleased to report |
0:25.8 | that the Queen's night market is back and going strong in its 10th season, and the market's |
0:30.7 | $6 price cap on all items is still in effect. Now, as always, I want to hear from you. You get an episode of the Sporkful he wants to reheat. Drop me a line to hello at sporkful.com. Tell me your name, location, what episode |
0:43.4 | you want to hear, and why. Thanks so much and enjoy. This episode contains explicit language. |
0:52.6 | The line to get in went through the subway station to the platform into the subway. |
0:58.0 | They shut down the subway for a bit and then just started skipping the stop. |
1:01.0 | The highway system shut down, the bus system shut down. |
1:03.0 | Also the next afternoon, I had every city agency on my voicemail. |
1:08.0 | I don't know how they got my number, but they're all like, oh, if this ever happens again, you're shut down, how dare you ruin our city? And I also |
1:16.0 | got death threats. I had never gotten death threat emails before, but I got several. |
1:23.5 | This is the Sporkful. It's not for foodies, it's for eaters. I'm Dan Pashman. Each week on our show, |
1:28.9 | we obsess about food to learn more about people. And that voice you just heard is John Wang, |
1:33.9 | founder of New York's Queens Night Market. As you could tell by that story about the crowds early |
1:38.7 | on, it was a pretty big hit right away. Night markets are open-air street markets that kind of feel like a giant |
1:44.8 | block party. There's often craft for sale, live music, or some entertainment, but the main draw is |
1:50.7 | usually the food. You'll find people cooking up all kinds of dishes and selling them out of their |
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