To market to market to buy a fat henHome again home again jiggety jen
To market to market to buy some fresh eel
Home again home again jiggety jeel.
To market to market to buy bugs and things
Home again home again home jiggety jings.
Well, this week we went to a very interesting market. In Lao, market is pronounced, talad. It was a large market with fresh food from eggs to meat; from vegetables to fruit; from rice to noodles; from live eels to live locusts ( or maybe grasshoppers) to live frogs. I will do a visual show and tell of our excursion at the market.
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| This food was already prepared and ready to eat. Crispy locusts. At the bottom left are some cooked larvae. |
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| How about a close up? The yellow parts are the thick part of the locust legs. |
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| Yes, these are alive. Eels and locusts. Off camera are live fish and frogs. We didn't buy any. |
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| Fruit we have never seen in the USA. We bought some dragon fruit. |
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| This is dragon fruit before we cut the ends off and peeled it. |
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| Nice little view after cutting. |
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| This is the fruit that has the texture of a kiwi and is mildly sweet and delicious. |
Also, today, our students grabbed us after class and bought us lunch. We had water buffalo meat balls with a spicy sauce topped with chopped peanuts with cucumber on the side. We also had papaya salad, a deliciously spicy salad with a side of rice noodles.
The bugs are so big that it's a relief to know they are being eaten instead of waiting to jump out at you in a dark alley or something...and gluten free!
ReplyDeleteOnce again I'm with you Susan. In China you name it and it was on a stick to eat! I guess with 80% of the world eating insect protein, we behind the curve... I curve I've been happy to be behind. What an incredibly exciting adventure you two are on! Really look forward to following it.
ReplyDeleteBeware the brown prickly looking fruit four pics up from here, durian fruit. It is expensive and smells awful. Some places you are banned from eating it in public because it smells so bad.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I've heard Robin. We wonder if it was named by the French. Durien means "it's nothing". We haven't see those yet but we have been warned.
DeleteWow. Thanks for that...I NEVER want to see my food moving or even recognizable parts. Ugh.
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