For cheap eats during the day, head to the upper level of the Central Market. In the evening, food stalls pop up around the market along Nguyen Thi Minh Khai.
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This hillside museum is a stampede through Dalat's history, with a side trip into natural history, complete with outrageously bad taxidermy, and plenty of…