Going to the Market When It's Being Demolished

Back to the market again! Hi everyone, I am sharing with you my market visit in my town.

This was a morning market. Everybody is accustomed to going to the market first thing in the morning before the day gets to hot. Being in a tropical country, it makes sense that the market have a lot of buyers coming early in the morning.

Something is changing in the market we visit these passed couple of days. The main market building is being demolished. The local government is renovating the market, so first, all the buildings, the shops, the stalls in the market are being destroyed.

So, all the sellers are relocated to another place. Most of those sellers preferred to stay and sell their things on the street near the demolished market. More of the people still come to this place, instead of the going to new location.

We, my wife and I, arrived in the "market" and saw the sellers with their merchandise displayed by the street. I saw that they seemed to organize themselves very well. Vegetable sellers, fish sellers, flowers sellers, respectively gathered in different location in a parking area and by the street near the demolished market.

We went buying our groceries with not so much difficulties. First, we went to the fish section to buy some fish, then to the vegetables section. We also bought some mangos. "Don't worry. These are sweet." the seller convinced us as we paid USD 1 for a kilogram of mango.

I looked at the mangosteen, and become interested. But then despite the great taste of these fruits, the fruit was quite small inside very heavy and thick skin. When we buy a kilo gram mangosteen, I think, it's 0,1 kg of fruit and 0.9 kg of its skin! I am not ready to spend USD 2 for a kilo of mangosteen.

We bought some steamed vegetables which mixed with coconut sambal. This was great for breakfast. Next, at other place, we got some "lawar klungah" or it was shredded young coconut sells mixed with various spices. This too was very delicious. Well, I must tell you, the coconut shells, are very soft when they were still young. So, please don't try to eat any coconut shells if they are not young at home.

So, we got our groceries and walked passed the demolished market. It's still couple of months or even years before the market is completely rebuilt. On the mean time, those sellers will have no place to sell, but by the streets and near parking area of another market.