Although beset with numerous controversies over proposals for its rebuilding, the Kedai Payang Main Market continues to be the focus of local and foreign tourists during the current school holiday.

A Bernama survey found the road to the market badly congested for a kilometre by the onslaught of visitors wanting to get numerous products of quality at reasonable prices.

A Terengganu-born who now resided in Johor Baru, Abdul Razak Embong, 41, said the market must be retained with several improvements because it is a tourism site synonymous with Terengganu and the economic lifeblood of the local community.