Monday, January 21, 2013

Hoi An Market

Our sweet city guide took us to the morning market where we observed Cao Lao rice noodles and rice crispy nuggets which make up one of the towns signature dishes


Here's the stall keeper cutting up the nuggets


More glorious produce, carrots are from China








Fish cakes for restaurants or big families


And plenty of shoppers





We also visited the meat market with fresh pigs trotters No flies and the place smelled fine.


ox tail anyone?


or how about pig hearts?


Poultry?


Fish?


Jumbo squid


and prawns. We got an education on how to choose really fresh seafood, shiny clear eyes, firm texture, red healthy looking gills, transparency for crustaceans.


We were there about 10 AM and the market had been going since 6 but it wasn't smelly at all. The guide did say the flesh gets sold pretty much by 11, so we were seeing it towards the end
-On the road with Kathryn

2 comments:

  1. Amazing displays! The cooks there must know a much greater variety of recipes than in the West. All those diverse raw ingredients - wow!

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  2. One thing we noticed at the markets and on menus is how well they use up the ENTIRE animal - they throw nothing away. Chicken feet anyone? The markets just amazed me, too and wonderful pictures here of them.

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