content: 2026-08-02 capture run — 10 finds across 6 productive sources

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+name: "Kawran Bazar"
+subtitle: "A 2am fruit auction, and vendors who clear the train tracks every time a train comes"
+date: 2026-08-02
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kawran-bazar"
+linkText: "Atlas Obscura"
+source: "Atlas Obscura"
+topics: [travel-and-places, food-and-drink]
+tags: [markets, dhaka, night, street-food]
+description: "Dhaka's central wholesale market runs hardest in the middle of the night and has vanished by mid-morning, when the same block turns back into a business district."
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+By one count fifty-seven percent of Dhaka's vegetables move through this one market, and the hours worth seeing are the ones nobody schedules: a 2am fruit auction, fish descaled by hand, vendors spreading their goods across live train tracks and clearing them each time a train comes through. By mid-morning it has gone — stalls become parked cars, and the block goes back to being a district of newspapers and TV studios.