Yichang Market
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 21 May 2018 23:47
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Yichang
Market
 Yichang is a city of four million,
tiny on Chinese reckoning, a place you need a car as most ‘attractions’ are out
of town. Fed up with walking along the river, not wanting a massage or to look
in shops and still needing to kill time before heading the the airport for our
flight to Shanghai, we saw a market down a side
street and went for it.
   The butcher
did not disappoint, next to the stall was an alley to the indoor market. In we
went.
  Multi-coloured
corn and all things spice.
 Another busy, colourful stall. Then we took a turn, deeper in the market.
 Big, fat toads,
in a bag to stop them hopping off proves once again that the
Chinese will eat just about anything, although, we didn’t see dodgy fried stuff
on cocktail sticks.
 Although we did see fried pig’s noses
and other dodgy stuff on this stall.
  In the scaled were two chickens and
two ducks on top of them. Then came the fishy area
starting with crayfish.
  Fish that
would have been frisky this morning, now barely gasping.
   Clams,
squid and snails.
  Luckier crayfish
in tanks. Dried black mushrooms.
 Afternoon
Zzzz’s after an early morning start.
  Even the cat was
exhausted. So many different types of
rice.
  Chillies
and tobacco.
 It was with dull relief that we made it through a full three-sixty
and ended by the pulses.
 Hooch shop,
at this point we gave up and went to the airport.
ALL IN ALL AT LEAST THERE WAS
‘STUFF’ WE WOULD EAT
TYPICAL, SMALL ASIAN
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