wet market
Open-air food stalls
A wet market is an open-air market selling fresh meat, fish, produce, and live animals.
The name comes from the water used to wash floors, ice melting from seafood displays, and produce being sprayed to stay fresh.
Common throughout Asia and other regions, wet markets contrast with supermarkets and dry goods stores.
They gained Western attention during disease outbreaks traced to live animal sections: The virus may have originated in a wet market in Wuhan.
Those who sell goods
- hagglingNegotiating a lower price
- bargainingNegotiating mutually acceptable terms
- barteringExchanging goods directly
- stallsDelays or compartments
merchants · trading · shoppers · cash · scales · prices · negotiation · transactions
Retailers of seafood
- fishGilled aquatic vertebrate
- crustaceansExoskeleton-bearing aquatic arthropods
- mollusksSoft-bodied invertebrates, often shelled
- shrimpSmall edible crustacean
crab · oysters · clams · mussels · squid · prawns · filleting · scaling
Full of energetic activity
- crowdedFilled beyond comfort
- noisyProducing much sound
- chaoticTotally without arrangement
- vibrantFull of life, intensity
lively · humid · pungent · sensory · cacophony · commotion · hubbub · foot traffic
Without roof or walls
- stallsDelays or compartments
- alleywaysNarrow urban passages
- canopiesOverhead fabric coverings
- drainageLiquid removal system
concrete floors · hoses · buckets · tarps · awnings · puddles · loading · crates
Kills and prepares livestock
carcasses · live animals · slaughter · hanging · cleaver · cutting boards · blood · entrails
vendors
Those who sell goods
- hagglingNegotiating a lower price
- bargainingNegotiating mutually acceptable terms
- barteringExchanging goods directly
stalls · merchants · trading · shoppers · cash · scales · prices · negotiation · transactions · wholesale
fishmongers
Retailers of seafood
- fishGilled aquatic vertebrate
- crustaceansExoskeleton-bearing aquatic arthropods
- mollusksSoft-bodied invertebrates, often shelled
shrimp · crab · oysters · clams · mussels · squid · prawns · filleting · scaling · briny
bustling
Full of energetic activity
vibrant · lively · humid · pungent · sensory · cacophony · commotion · hubbub · foot traffic · shouting
open-air
Without roof or walls
drainage · concrete floors · hoses · buckets · tarps · awnings · puddles · loading · crates · baskets
butchers
Kills and prepares livestock
offal · carcasses · live animals · slaughter · hanging · cleaver · cutting boards · blood · entrails · chicken
vegetables
Edible plants, not fruits
leafy · tubers · roots · legumes · seasonal · tropical · local · bundles · crates · exotic fruits
- marketsmarketplace, bazaar, souk, vendors, food stalls
- pandemiclockdowns, COVID-19, outbreak, epidemic, COVID
- food storesgrocery store, supermarket, grocery, convenience store, bodega
- Asian marketsbazaar, night bazaar, Ginza
- Hong Konghandover, British rule, Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Island, Kowloon
- SingaporeCBD, PAP, National Day, hawker, multiracialism
wet marketsupermarket
Self-service food retailer
grocery store · hypermarket · big-box store · Walmart · Tesco