Okay, there is not much happening here in Germany (except that it was snowing today!), so I will just show you some pictures from a typical Chinese wet market (sorry to my Chinese / Hong Kong friends, I know this is quite boring for you...). To be honest, these pictures were taken in Hong Kong, so they are not completely typical - in some more rural areas of Mainland China I did see fresh dogs in these kind of markets :-)
Let's start with something familiar - the meat section (except that they probably wouldn't present the pig heads this way in Germany).
Now it is getting weird...
Chicken feet! People here enjoy eating chicken feet and to my shame, I have to admit that I never tried them (I just couldn't get rid of the pictures in my head of our dirty chicken and all the stuff they actually do with their feet ) :-(
Toads! These ones I actually tried, but by accident. After a wonderful hotpot dinner with my friends, they ordered this most delicious desert which I thought was plain coconut. It was indeed coconut, only that they added some toad fat so it would taste even better... Why would you do that?!?!? Anyways, I am happy I only found out after eating it, because it was delicious indeed.
These poor guys are tied up...
So let's move to the fish section now! As you can imagine, sea food is quite famous in Hong Kong.
Kissing fish!
Somehow, these guys seem to be sad :-(
Everything is prepared freshly - the guys on the right were still moving (or at least the parts of them).
And this is how it works: you select the fish you want to buy, this gentleman gets it out of the water and then prepares it just in front of you (he is amazingly quick!).
Chinese people also like dried stuff - here: dried big, small and tiny fish.
Dried squid...
And even dried (and flat) duck!
Let's start with something familiar - the meat section (except that they probably wouldn't present the pig heads this way in Germany).
Now it is getting weird...
Chicken feet! People here enjoy eating chicken feet and to my shame, I have to admit that I never tried them (I just couldn't get rid of the pictures in my head of our dirty chicken and all the stuff they actually do with their feet ) :-(
Toads! These ones I actually tried, but by accident. After a wonderful hotpot dinner with my friends, they ordered this most delicious desert which I thought was plain coconut. It was indeed coconut, only that they added some toad fat so it would taste even better... Why would you do that?!?!? Anyways, I am happy I only found out after eating it, because it was delicious indeed.
These poor guys are tied up...
So let's move to the fish section now! As you can imagine, sea food is quite famous in Hong Kong.
Kissing fish!
Somehow, these guys seem to be sad :-(
Everything is prepared freshly - the guys on the right were still moving (or at least the parts of them).
And this is how it works: you select the fish you want to buy, this gentleman gets it out of the water and then prepares it just in front of you (he is amazingly quick!).
Chinese people also like dried stuff - here: dried big, small and tiny fish.
Dried squid...
And even dried (and flat) duck!
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