Category Archives: Market

Ginamos

Tubs of fermented tiny fish, shrimp fry, and baby oyster
Baby oyster
Tiny fish
Shrimp fry
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Dried Tobacco Leaves

Dried tobacco leaves stall at Tanjay Public Market (Dec 2019)

Seoul

Gwangjang Market

Nucos

Wordless Sign: Fish Market

Seafood at Agdao Market

Mussels, clams, guso, etc.

Tuna carving

Milkfish

Round scad (galunggong)

Espada arrangement

Barilis Stall

Well-lighted tuna stall, with installed miniature altar for Santo NiƱo.

Lao Food: Crickets

Crickets are normally considered as food by Lao people.

Snake and Vegetables

Vegetables and snake at the market in Luang Prabang.

Lao Food: Ant Eggs

Ant eggs are a little sour and are eaten with chicken eggs, in fish soup, or just steamed for a snack.

Reference: What’s in the Market?, Sonesulilat Vongsouline, Big Brother Mouse 2010

Batya

A laundry basin

Takway

Most delicious vegetable on earth – Lana

Ginamos

Tubs of fermented fish at Bankerohan Market

Painitan Stools

Guinamos Micro-retailer

The biggest block of shrimp paste on his table cost 150 pesos so this vendor is micro-retailing it

Lao Food: Butterfly PupaeĀ 

Vendor removing the pupa from its cocoon

I saw a couple of these in the garden of my guesthouse. Turns out that my host would buy some from the market to let them complete their metamorphosis. She feared that one day they will all be gone.

Laotians eat them deep-fried with a serving of sticky rice

New Year’s Shopping

Koreans shopping for seafood at Jalgachi Market today

Community Weighing ScaleĀ 

Timbangan ng Bayan

Providing common weighing scales (Timbangan ng Bayan) inside public markets is an example of a Philippine government public service. Now folks have a way to double check the weight of the produce.
Sort of a vendor rip-off deterrence tool.

Rice Stall

The number on the sign denote the price of rice per kilo in Philippine peso. Rice in open sacks on the first row are branded and their signs carry the brand name. Unbranded rice on the second and third rows have signs that tell the variety andĀ quality factor like malambot (tender) and mabango (aromatic).

Sai Aua

Fanning the freshly fried sai aua, a Northern Thai spicy sausage

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