Our local shopping area includes a mini-version of the Silk market with several one story buildings of interior stalls each with individual merchants. One building has mostly clothing, another is "small things" that include clocks and dishes and mops. Another: fish. Another: meat. Still another: produce and tofu. All the buildings are together on the interior of a city block, behind the commercial and residential buildings at streetside. You have to know they are there or follow someone walking determinedly up an alley. Or get curious by someone else walking from behind the buildings carrying bags of long green vegetables.
Huge slabs of tofu and pickled veges. Stinky tofu too.
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Fabulous mushrooms and dried fungi; hot hot chilis
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| Rambutan--peel and eat |
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| Durian: The King of Fruits. The smell is that of rotting flesh. SE China hotels used to have those circle slash signs for cigarettes: No Smoking. And also circle/slash: No Durian. |
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| Mangosteen: The Queen of Fruits. (And also the name of a great little Vietnamese restaurant in Little Saigon San Francisco. We even went there pre-Symphony once. Oh I miss the symphony, the ballet....) |
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Sad crab.
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Lovely!
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