Nov 24, 2007 Kumming China
The first morning to the first market. Let the Stalking Begin! We walk the streets until we see someone carrying bags of grocery and then walk in the opposite direction that they came from. That is usually how we find the markets in each city. Its almost like stalking prey but backwards.
The market today was really neat, all set within these narrow alley ways, in between building that have been demoed and waiting for a shinny new high rise to be built there. The alley ways are hard to get through – really small and way too many people. All the stalls of different sellers are mixed within each other here, unlike Guangzhou where the sellers are grouped by what they sell, vegetables together on one side, meat on anther and so forth.
There is only a limited variety of fish sold here, a lot of these large river fish, about 3-4 feet in length. Fermented rice in clay pots (I love these), lots of live chickens and one rabbit. The market starts at 8am and it goes until midday, there is a break, then it starts again at 3pm to sunset.
I wondered how much longer trolling the market will be exciting for me. After all, “Wok the Dog” has been on going for 10 years now, and these last 3 years we have travelled purposely for the project. But then the thought of the fish market in Japan, markets in Morocco, Southeast Asia, South America, AFRICA….I can’t even begin to imagine what those markets are like and to explore the relationship these people have with their food, I get excited again.
The most BEAUTIFUL thing I have seen at the market today are these huge chunks of FAT! Beautiful luscious chunks of FAT!
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