It is hard to believe that the very first thing that I would post about my recent trip to China is photos from street markets. I have my reasons for this. The first is the overwhelming wealth of what is on display. There are beautiful fruits and vegetables, some of them unfamiliar and many of them well known but beautifully displayed.
The other is that it is a window into a culture to see what they eat. I could wander different markets, sampling street food, and absorbing the atmosphere as a part of every trip I take.
This one has a love of noodles, that is for sure. We saw bags of noodles for sale with a small packet of the sauce to mix with them once you got them home We saw a vender who would chop the cooked noodles into your desired width and send you home with them. You could buy the noodles to cook them yourself. Every option, many sizes, and some variety of flavor. The grains are much what we see here at home in a bulk section of a market, but somehow prettier. There are tubs with fish that are still living, chickens that you can take home and butcher yourself, pet fish, tea, the list goes on.
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