Today we visited the Qing Ping Market, a traditional Chinese market in every way. There are several different sections to the market but we only visited the traditional herbal remedies portion. We stayed away from the ‘Wet’ market which usually contains various animals, but we still have a few days left to venture there if we get up the nerve.
The market was a 10 minute walk from the hotel but a world away. Instead of Starbucks and pizza delivery we were greeted with huge bags of mushrooms, deer antlers, a zillion different types of roots and even more things that we could not identify. Madilyn took most of this in stride except for the occasional complaint about the smell and one brief conversation:
Madi: What are those?
Dad: Dried frogs.
Madi: To play with? Can I have one?
Dad: No, they are to eat.
Madi: People eat frogs?
Dad: Yes.
Madi: Yuck.
The market was quite interesting and as usual we were pretty much ignored, in fact one guy even encouraged Sue to come closer and take a pic of his huge bucket of live scorpions.
Chris
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