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Local market in a suburb of Guangzhou
Posted on March 12th, 2009 5 comments
Shopping tour with PPs mother to the local market
recommendation, but some pictures just for good nerves
I cannot speak Mandarin (Chinese), PPs mother cannot speak English. But anyway she was so friendly to take me with her to the local market where fresh comestibles (D: Nahrungsmittel) and other stuff can be bought: vegetables, fruits, meat, seafood, flavorings / aromatic herbs – and general housekeeping articles like fly swatters or dirty clothes baskets… And, it is necessary to compare comestibles to get the best products and to bargain for ALL goods (also for the already most minimal prices)!
You can buy living and most fresh seafood, chicken and ducklings. They get killed in front of you and prepared for cooking – directly at the standing, the street or whereever; everybody touches the meat, turns and checks to get the best pieces; eyes look at you from a whole calfs head, sellers smoke, money is not handed in to the seller directly – just put on the meat on the table and the seller takes it from there, sellers don’t wash hands after getting the money, smoking or whatever. Hygienic orders just do not exist, and it works too… No problem, after cooking everything is fine again…
Even if it was strange some times, this was a great impression, the smelling, the colors, the visual overkill, the busy activity, the market shoutings…It was a pleasure that she took me with her and that I was able to see Chinas local culture very close – first hand information and feelings… 🙂
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- Back yard of the market hall
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- Banana specialist
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- Oranges specialist
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- Fruit dealer
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- Fresh vegetables
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- greeeeeen
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- Leek
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- Seasonings
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- Weighting the seasonings with traditional balance
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- PPs mum is searching for the best scampi
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- Turtles – small and big
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- Unknown fruit?
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- Market hall / meat department
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- Meat departement
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- Wanna have a cigaret?
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- Calfs head
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- Living chicken
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- Cut fish, heart still pumping
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- Fishes (1/2)
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- Fishes (2/2)
5 responses to “Local market in a suburb of Guangzhou”
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Die “unknown fruit” ist (wahrscheinlich) eine Kiwano (=Horngurke). Kannst sie ja mal googeln ;)!
Viel Spaß in Shanghai
Dein Bruder -
Na, i glaub des is a “stinkfrucht” und keine kiwano (kein schmäh!)
urcoole bilder
lg Emru –> dein neighbour -
hi nochmal,
hab einige Details zur Stinkfrucht (“Unknown Fruit”) bzw. im Fachjargon Durian, gefunden
Innenteil riecht nach faulen Eiern und so!!
hier der Link:
http://gumia.de/durian-die-stinkfrucht/oder ausführlicher:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durianlg Emru
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hallo emru! thx für die info, freut mich dass dir die bilder gfallen…
also gut, dass wir die nach faulen eier stinkende durian nicht mitgenommen haben 😉
bezüglich eier – in china stehen sie voll auf elendslang gekochte, schwarze eier (“tausendjährige eier”), hier in shanghai sind auch “tea eggs” sehr verbreitet – also eier, die in einer schwarzen tee-suppe tagelang eingelegt sind, schale zerbrochen, ei schön dunkel gefärbt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_eggman braucht zwar ein paar bierchen vorher um die bedenken betreffend salomonellen und des ekligen aussehens zu vergessen, das ei schmeckt dann dafür aber ganz gut… 🙂
lg, bis bald
david -
A braver esser =)
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