Bogyoke Aun San Market was built in 1926 by the British and called “Scott’s Market” after James George Scott, a colonial administrator of the period. I don’t know why. Did he commission the building of the market? Or did he like to shop for bargains there at the time? No matter…we tourists can come and shop for bargains there now. It is a huge shed building occupied mostly by vendors of jewelry and handicrafts of all sorts.

And (reputedly) the best moneychangers in Myanmar.

In fact, Scott’s Market is so popular with tourists and locals alike that ancillary markets have sprung up on either side of it, selling more tourist goods as well as household supplies of all kinds. And–always, even in the alleys in between–food.