To Market! To Market!

Come see the sights and smell the rawness of what you eat!

My mom takes me to the market with her when she can and it's been a while since I've been to the wet market. I observe things around me and I noticed some funny scenes that I want to share now as anecdotes.

One morning in the market, my mom thought of buying fish for lunch. While she was picking from a fresh catch, I saw a tank with a live fish in it. It's a huge one and it was just standing (for lack of a better word) there. Then I noticed he was looking at something. His eyes were different, well it looks like it was in shock (or maybe because they just have bulging eyes that seems to be always in shock). Anyway, I followed it's eye and saw that it was staring at this guy chopping off a fish... the exact same fish in the tank! Okay it is kind of morbid for the fish but it is funny. They should have just moved the tank somewhere else or not put the fish in there. I can't imagine what that fish is thinking at that moment. Poor thing..

Here's another one: we were just about to wrap up our market trip when my mom paused to check some pork. On the other side, there was the fish section and I saw men chopping off and cleaning off fish. What caught my attention was this short guy scratching his armpit inside his shirt. I continued watching him and it's been a quite a long scratch there. But what he did next was what made me want to slap his hand. After scratching his armpit, he cleaned his hand in a basin of water beside him and continued to chop the fish. What's even worse is that the other guy beside him dipped the knife he was using in that same basin! Yech! It's been a while I have seen something like that. Thankfully we didn't buy our fish from those guys. I sure hope they clean the fish very well...

Here's one from my brother. He went with my mom to the market to buy fish. Then my mom told him to wait for the fish they just bought. My brother watched the fish bonked in the head (to kill it. it was still alive when they saw it) and cleaned off its inside. When the lady gave the bag to my brother, he got a jolt when something in the bag jumped. My brother took the bag and found that the fish was still alive while the lady was skinning and cleaned it. My brother couldn't hold the bag well and he was already feeling sorry for the fish. My mom thought it was funny though.

Those are some stories I have from the market. It's kinda funny and you'll kinda feel sorry too for a while. Well it's a fact of life. Fish gotta swim and people gotta eat.