S & E Asia 201 - Hong Kong 06: Wan Chai Market - Vegetables, Eggs & Jewelry
Jan 22, 2023 09:05:45 #
Jan 22, 2023 09:37:43 #
Love the images of the fresh green vegetables. Look inviting this time of year in Colorado. I'm ready for our farmers this summer. Love the sign for the bus. Nice series - looking forward to more images.
Jan 22, 2023 10:09:28 #
StanMac
Loc: Tennessee
Thank you for these beautiful photographs of life in Hong Kong! The quantity of product on display dwarfs what I see in the produce section of our biggest supermarkets in town here. Do these merchants sell all their product in a day, or two? Some of it looks like it might spoil pretty quickly (except the 1000 year old eggs - they’re probably good for another millenia).
Stan
Stan
Jan 22, 2023 10:55:03 #
Vince68 wrote:
Nicely shot set Joe, good looking vegetables. I'll pass on the "Thousand Year Eggs" though... they may be a delicacy over there, but they don't look too appealing to me. Guess its just something a lot different than what we are used too here.
Thanks Vince - you are correct, eating habits and appreciation of food is so different in the different parts of this world - and while I am normally quite adventurous when it comes to food, I do draw a line also on quite a few items.
Jan 22, 2023 10:55:38 #
junglejim1949 wrote:
Wow, you really captured the "greens" absolutely wonderful!
Thank you Jim, glad you like these greens also.
Jan 22, 2023 10:56:11 #
nimbushopper wrote:
Beautiful photos all Joe!
Thank you very much Gary, glad you like these photos.
Jan 22, 2023 10:57:23 #
Jan 22, 2023 10:59:37 #
joehel2 wrote:
Beautifully done, Joe. The vegetable displays were wonderful. I liked that the backdrop for the fascinating egg display was the vendor concentrating on carving a fish with a clever. He’d better be careful or the fish vendor will start selling eggs. 🙂
Good eye Joe! - maybe he was looking for some caviar (fish-eggs) inside the fish?
Jan 22, 2023 11:01:21 #
ecobin wrote:
O'Brien Road in Hong Kong - seems out of place to me but there are probably many non-asian names there.
A very fine set, Joe.
A very fine set, Joe.
Thank you Elliott - a very appropriate thought, and yes, there are very many non-Asian names in Hong Kong, after all it was a British Crown Colony for so many years that strongly influenced the names of many localities.
Jan 22, 2023 11:02:50 #
jaymatt wrote:
Nice, bright, interesting photos again. 
Thank you John, I am happy to hear that you find these shots interesting again.
Jan 22, 2023 11:04:14 #
FotoHog wrote:
Almost makes me want to turn vegetarian . . . 
That would apparently be a "healthy" life style, but I do prefer my diversities .....
Jan 22, 2023 11:06:17 #
AzPicLady wrote:
The veggies are quite nice.
Thank you Kathy, they do look very healthy and I just enjoy these different green hues.
Jan 22, 2023 11:07:40 #
roder10 wrote:
Love the images of the fresh green vegetables. Look inviting this time of year in Colorado. I'm ready for our farmers this summer. Love the sign for the bus. Nice series - looking forward to more images.
Thank you Rowedean, they certainly do look inviting, particularly at this time of the year for us when things can be rather bleak around us.
Jan 22, 2023 11:13:16 #
StanMac wrote:
Thank you for these beautiful photographs of life in Hong Kong! The quantity of product on display dwarfs what I see in the produce section of our biggest supermarkets in town here. Do these merchants sell all their product in a day, or two? Some of it looks like it might spoil pretty quickly (except the 1000 year old eggs - they’re probably good for another millenia).
Stan
Stan
Thank you Stan, glad to hear that you enjoy these photos. The Wan Chai market is known to be one of the busiest in Hong Kong and volume and diversity of the offerings attest to that. I would very much assume that most of these produce will be gone by the late afternoon - and I like your tongue-in-cheek thought of these eggs lasting "another millennia"!
Jan 22, 2023 12:41:17 #
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