Seeing the World: Trip to the Market

Back in December, my mom, cousin, and I took a trip to the market to buy some food. This market was a tad bit different than the kind of market I'm used to, as I'll explain in the next paragraph.

Selling some salt

We got to the meat/fish sections. Now, maybe the meat and fish were extremely fresh. And maybe they are able to sell all their products fairly quick. However, I have no idea if this is really the case. The weather was pretty hot (probably mid 80's - 90's), and the meat and fish were just out in the open--no ice to keep them cool--this probably wouldn't happen back home. There were also plenty of flies hanging out with the meat and fish. My mom and cousin were about to buy some meat from there to which I responded with a confused look and a "really??"--we didn't buy any meat or fish from there. We went to SM (the big supermarket) for that--where there aren't any flies & everything is on ice. I'm pretty sure that since I've been here, a lot of the meat/fish that I've eaten came from a market like this...but I'll go with the phrase: Ignorance is bliss.

One of those things hanging there is indeed a pig's head, but I didn't think that was too different.

Chicken...not on ice

Cow's leg...this was still pulsating while it was sitting there--key clue to how fresh it was

Fish...also not on ice

In addition to the meat/fish section, there were numerous vendors selling various things--fruits and vegetables, flowers, peanuts, clothes, toys, etc.