PrintMorning at a Filipino Wet Market
Lori over at Dessert Comes First has a lovely photo essay from visiting her neighborhood wet market in the Philippines:
"Here, the fish are so fresh that they’re still jumping about, eagerly gulping their last breaths. The fishmongers are so adept at scaling the tilapia that their eyes are everywhere but on the fish. Clams are squirting seawater from their shells, and the market’s aisles are strewn with large containers of just-caught catch from the sea. This is as close to my food source as I can get here in the city. Some stalls over, seafood like squid and baby crabs are lined up attractively, waiting for the next lucky buyer."
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4 Comments:
This is a really great photo essay; very worth checking out. The descriptions and photos really give you a sense of being there.
Nice find, Lia.
corycm at 4:52PM on 03/23/07
Wow, that is a great blog. Thanks for posting this. I have a new favorite.
Marvin at 6:24PM on 03/23/07
My own experience is that their is no ice and no refrigeration.
You go to the main fish market in Tokyo and the fish is super fresh and well chilled as well.
Chef Hawk at 12:01AM on 03/24/07
Chef Hawk, wet market regulations vary from municipality to municipality. Also very few places in the Philippines are more than an hour or two away from the sea, so the seafood that makes it to people's plates is fresher than anything the vast majority of Americans will ever eat in their lives. Nothing's ever frozen.
In any case, it's ridiculous to compare a Third World neighborhood wet market to Tsukiji, which is industrialized and the largest fish market in the world.
Lia Bulaong at 6:54PM on 03/24/07