A fellow American friend we met here believes in the near future open air markets for fruits, meats, food in general will no longer exist. Instead only supermarkets. He believes our grand children and possible children will never experience this fresh produce sold by the farmers and fishermen themselves. I am not sure whether I believe this, but I know that markets in Taiwan are where you can really find and see true Taiwanese, Hakka, and possible Aboriginals all together purchasing and selling their products. Just a 5-10 minute walk south east? of our apartment, John and I stumbled upon a food market about 3 average size city blocks in length. In this market you can find, fish, shell fish, chicken (alive and dead), pork, beef, vegetables, fruits, beans, spices, kitchen supplies, fresh noodles, rice, eggs, foods to eat, plus a few elderly men selling chinese medicines.
When we first walked through I had a hard time with the smells, mainly the meat smells, and also I'm guessing a few health regulations are being violated.... In any case it is quite an experience dealing with language, the overwhelming fruit and veggies, and how amazingly cheap everything is!
Meat Stop!
John and Matt buying some pork tenderloin
I wish you could see better, this pic shows doesn't show how swoll the carrots are...
fruit? wax jambu or java apple
spices and flavorings
look at the size of these green onions!
however you like your chicken...
or pig....
weird dessert jellos, I know the dark one is grass jelly and isn't that bad...
Look at the size of these greeeeeeen beans!
BEAN-OS
kinda like a pear or something...
the fruit is out-offffff-controllllllll period.
matt showing off the size of that avocado!
some monstrous bean...
knife!
these eggs were blue but you can't really tell, they are preserved eggs
hummmm, I dunno honey, I'm thinking some pig face tonight for dinner, or maybe intestine, or no heart
yum yum seafood, and super size calamari!
mushroom stand
hummm, i'll just take a whole chicken feathers and all.
some undies?
these are delicious fish balls! (they really are good fried up with spicy sauce)
flavorings
vegggg
crabbbbbbb
loading up, done for the day! I really just liked the hat
dragon fruit and tomaaaaaatoe.
this guy is alllllllways asleep when we go by his stand
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