This is where I buy my vegetables. It's not clean, but you can't eat veggies without decontaminating them in some way anyway, so it really doesn't matter. (And 100% organic! A bit different from Whole Foods or Trader Joe's though.) You can buy produce from the supermarket, but it's 3x as expensive and has to be weighed at a weigh station rather than at checkout like in Western grocery stores. There are no lines, so you have to fight your way to the front, push other's bags of produce out of the way, and get your food weighed by a sullen faced girl who doesn't acknowledge you. It sucks. So I come here instead. This type of market is the most common way to buy vegetables in China.
Here you can see potatoes, onions, and different kinds of greens for sale. The quality varies depending on the day and what they are able to get. But you can usually get these basics, along with tomatoes, garlic and mushrooms. Sometimes they have radishes, lettuce, broccoli and cauliflower. It's not unusual to see cats wandering around the veggies, but I guess they keep the rats down.
You can usually buy other things at the market too, like eggs, rice, noodles and spices. Can you spot the kitty?
love it. reminds me of my mission. had to do the same thing. the open markets, had about everything. meat was not as common, so we loaded up on fruits and stuff.
ReplyDeleteYes yes, I spotted da kitty! Are you sure it's not also for sale, um, for stews and stuff?
ReplyDelete*shudder*
Keep the stories & pics coming, I'm eating it all up :-)