LOCAL: This week: with Nivi (Jasa) at Broadway Market, the creator of I am Nut Ok Cheese. The time: any given Saturday. The place: Third Culture Deli, a plant-based diner, American styled, Italian felt.NEIGHBORHOOD BY NEIGHBORHOOD: The question in mind: What makes a neighborhood a desired landscape to live in, a community to belong? Is it the everyday stops, every week traditions or reasons no matter what come back to?&nbsp;A POCKET GUIDE: Yard Sale Pizza, House of Momo, SenViet and many more. Everything can be delicious and vegan in London.CRITIC:&nbsp;Can marketplaces help to coalesce neighhborhood’s diverse cultures?&nbsp;ROUTE: Broadway Market Vegan Spots from Mare Street vegan burgers to Pocket’s falafel lines.&nbsp;

It’s early. If we divide the day into 24-hour slots. Before established stores half-open their shutter, after empty bottles spread around the concrete. A new nation is settling down on the street which, during the weekday, pedestrians, dogs, and bikes pass through to reach their destination at Old Street, London Bridge, Bank or Blackfriars. On Saturdays and Sundays, the symphony of vegetables boiling in casseroles, cheese melting between bread slices, Guinness mixing into bloody mary to assemble the perfect blend, and coffee pouring into cartoon cups is heard. A constituent wonders if single-used products should be banned; if, no matter what the material: glass, cartoon, plastic, can, the harm human manifests is the same. "A poll should be held," one thinks. Within a couple of minutes, seconds, and moments, the weekend country called Broadway Market is founded.&nbsp;The homeland of Broadway Market is desegregated. According to legend, once upon a time created by Zhuge Liang as a military strategy, in Hong Kong switched to rice flour from wheat due to environmental reasons; in Taiwan filled with crab, beef, or sweet potato; in Shanghai when steamed turned into a delicious soup, bao is here, in the middle of the market, right next to the musical act of the day, in its usual place. Maybe a couple of inches to the right from where it used to be the prior week. In Broadway Market, the places are not fixed neither to the ground nor to the adjacent neighbor. It’s flexible. "A dosa with potatoes in exchange for your chocolate churros," a vendor says to the adjoining one. The currency within the inhabitants is barter.&nbsp;<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2023/2/3/1679469550705.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="0.67" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">A regular day at the Broadway Market<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;">No passport, no identity card, and no credentials is asked while entering. A couple of smiles, "Would you like to try a falafel? How about a Kolkati roll?" I’ve been asked. While walking, 2 distinct smell catches my attention. The first one is 5K (cardamom, cinnamon, coriander, cloves and cumin), commonly known as Masala Chai, taking its origins from India, but as a known world traveler, making Broadway Market another stop on its journey. The second one, more dominant, a dark roast coffee and potent condensed milk, slowly dripping through a metal filter (phin). Ah! Vietnamese Coffee.&nbsp;Chit-chat accompanies the lines forming, and a new language, let's call it Broadwayan is formed. Selam! আপনি কেমন আছেন, thử 宝 ? It’s approximately noon, according to the sun’s placement on the sky right. Today I’m a visitor at the Democratic Weekend Nation of Broadway Market.March 23, from an endless pace of footstepsAccompanied by&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTw-NrqKigs" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Opal - For Tet Remix</a>Hazal

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