Small Market

On our last day in Shanghai, we had a few hours in the morning before our afternoon plane flight, so we decided to wander the streets a little bit and check out a wet market, where locals pick up their meat, seafood and vegetables. The space was about the size of a basketball court and felt like the atrium of a small mall. It was lined with booths on the outside and inside, and offered quite a variety of things. Frankly, I had no idea what a lot of it was.



The meat counter, roosters, frogs.



Turtle, fish, shellfish. The wide variety of shellfish here is typical of all the markets we've been to. Razor clams and other types of clams, two or three types of snails, cockles, mussels, etc.



Eels (peeled ones in the background), fresh eggs of various sizes, shapes and colors, then sprouts and seaweeds. They sell both "black fungus" and "white fungus" in most places we go. I am still unclear on what that is, but it's looks slick and slimy, like kelp.



Shanghai's answer to the whole foods prepared food section -- they offer a huge variety of pre-cut goodies to stir-fry at home, and the wine shop. The wine situation in China is beginning to weigh heavily on my mother.