Photo of the day No. 13 - Wet Markets in Hong Kong
Iconic Hong Kong Culture and a must visit
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Photo of the day No. 13 - Wet Markets in Hong Kong
Iconic Hong Kong Culture and a must visit
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“In Hong Kong, wet markets are traditional markets that sell fresh meat, produce, and other perishable goods. There are wet markets in most neighbourhoods of Hong Kong and they often cater to older residents, low-income residents, and domestic workers.”
This is the in a nutshell meaning of a wet market in Hong Kong and if you click on the links below these are excellent articles from Zolima Magazine about them, they have as usual nailed it!
I have been going to wet markets all my life in Hong Kong and I find them absolutely fascinating, there are no shortage of supermarkets both high end and low end but for Chinese people, fresh food is essential and many people shop for food items 2 or 3 times a day to ensure that freshness, naturally the prices are negotiable in a wet market.
Cantonese food in Hong Kong is certainly interesting and fresh vegetables, live seafood and meat from recently deceased animals are essential and yes you can taste the difference.
For the record the FEHD (Food and Environmental Hygiene Department) of the Hong Kong Government keeps a watchful eye on hygiene at wet markets, they have teams of inspectors (they hunt in packs) roaming the markets daily looking for infractions and such and they take their job very seriously.
On my private tours I always like (d) to take my guests on a quick visit to a local wet market because they are such an important part of Hong Kong Culture and they are certainly NOT for for the squeamish, but how are they different from a butchers shop?
Unlike many wet markets in China and Asia, in Hong Kong there is very little trade in exotic types of animals that are butchered for food, we have plenty of snake shops and that is about as exotic as it gets although I presume that anything and everything can be bought and sold if the price is right but the various departments in Hong Kong responsible for food safety and such catch most miscreants.
The image above is one of my favourites and was taken at an atypical wet market in Mong Kok in Kowloon close to the Cordis Hotel and Langham Place, the look on the fishmongers face is priceless, one of abject weariness, he has probably been slaughtering fish his entire life and it shows.
A lot of my friends who do food tours always like to pay a visit to a wet market as it puts everything into context.
So there you go and please do read the 3 articles from Zolima Magazine they cover the wet market story in Hong Kong brilliantly.
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