weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

While the official market building is on Queen's Road East, what locals consider the Wan Chai Market is actually a series of street vendors in the alleys and small streets surrounding the market building. Local food lovers consider the Wan Chai Market to be one of the best "wet markets", i.e. markets that sell fresh vegetables, seafood, meat, etc. It is also a great way to experience how locals shop for food on a daily basis. Here one can find small butcher shops, bakeries, incense shops, stores selling dried foods as well as plenty of small stalls selling vegetables, fruits, dry goods and all the paraphernalia that belongs into a properly equipped kitchen.

In this first section I start out with a view into one of the lanes with shops selling household goods on one side and flowers on the other side, and from there we progress to more flowers and an interesting array of fruits, some common, others quite exotic.


Notes
TRIP INFO: Set # 1 provides a brief introduction to THIS SERIES on SOUTH & EAST ASIA. See it at
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-724330-1.html

HONG KONG COUNTRY INFO in set # 196: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-762698-1.html

WAN CHAI INFO in set # 198: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-762881-1.html

EARLIER POSTS of this series: Access my topic list at UHH, the new posts are listed in reverse chronological order:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/user-topic-list?usernum=45105

Thanks for visiting, for improved clarity please view the downloads. I look forward to your comments and questions.

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1 - Stalls selling household goods and flowers at the open air market in an alley

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2 - Floral offerings

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3 - Full Chrysanthemum flowers in a variety of colors

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4 - A variety of fruits and tubers with an ancient scale

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5 - Papaya fruit

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6 - Red wax jambu fruit, native to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and India, with a red skin and crisp, white tissue with a taste similar to that of an apple

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7 - Persimmon

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8 - Dragon fruit

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9 - Pomelo fruit

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10 - Chestnuts

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weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

For your reference:

11 - Trip map of the Hong Kong segment of our tour, Wan Chai is at the northern coast of Hong Kong Island at the bottom of the map

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA

Great photos, Joe.

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Colorful and quite interesting, Joe.

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thanks Bill for your thumb of approval!

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you, Elliott, for your kind comment.

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you Ken, glad you found these interesting.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

A feast for the eyes and stomach, Joe!

Umnak Loc: Mount Vernon, Wa.

Colorful textures abound Joe, nicely done! It's always impressive to see how much effort goes into these street markets to display all the different offerings. I'm assuming they set up and take down daily?!
Another fine set showing off this street market!
Rob

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thanks Mike, you certainly got that right!

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thanks Rob, yes, these colors and textures is what draws me to the open air street markets, I can never get enough of them and I am afraid, you are going to see a bunch more here in Hong Kong as we move from town to town, particularly out in the more rural "New Territories". I actually don't know for sure, but here is what I am thinking: Some of these markets are permanent markets that are open every day, for these markets I assume that the stands will remain overnight and only the goods are removed. Other markets, particularly out in the New Territories, can be periodic markets, say only on certain days in the week, here I would assume that the structures are removed and rebuilt each time. We have frequently seem the same thing in Paris, one of our other beloved and much visited cities, where they have a strong tradition of rotating street markets and these are all dismantled and rebuilt daily. Interestingly, we have visited markets on different days at different locations and seen some of the same vendors again and again.

NMGal Loc: NE NM

All that setting up and taking down must take hours. Rob beat me to the question.

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Yes, plenty of extra work in the morning and evening, but I guess like in any routine job, they become experts at it!

Vince68 Loc: Wappingers Falls, NY

Very nice, colorful set showing the beautiful flowers, fruits and vegetables Joe. The alley looks to be packed with vendors and their products.