The Wet Market!!

This is probably one of my favorite things about Hong Kong. They have these wet markets everyday. I only really get to check them out on the weekends cause they don't open until like 11 AM and they close pretty early in the evening. But man they sell everything! It's pretty crazy but I have gotten to be a regular with one little old lady who saves me a couple bannanas an apple and a pear, for 10HKD (about a buck and a half!) every saturday on my way home from the gym.

You can see why they call it the wet market, I was told apparently that the chinese think fish and animals taste better if they die long deaths, so they have these styrofoam tanks filled with live fish and they take them out and just let them suffocate then gut them and sell them right there! It was a bit shocking at first, but not as bad as the first time I saw the guy in this butcher shop dispatch a chicken then dice it up for the little old lady that apparently wanted hers real fresh!

The number one sales strategy for the fish is to throw the halibut out on the table when there are a lot of people around because it flaps around the most and slap its tail against the metal tray and makes a sound like a fire cracker

One interesting thing is that all the cash here is paper except the $10 bills, which are plastic, apparently this is because the fish mongers only deal in $10 bills and to keep them from getting all nasty with fish guts they made them out of plastic so they can be washed off!