wet markets
Open-air food markets
Wet markets are open-air markets selling fresh meat, fish, produce, and live animals.
The name comes from the water used to wash down floors and keep seafood alive.
Common throughout Asia and other regions, wet markets gained Western attention during disease outbreaks traced to live animal sales: Health officials inspected the wet market where the virus originated.
- butchersKills and prepares livestock
- vendorsThose who sell goods
- traditional marketsLocal vendor gathering places
- stallsDelays or compartments
- live animalsOrganisms currently alive
fish markets · ice · slippery floors · aromas · poultry · zoonosis · food · open air · food fish · bustles · live · sanitation · meat · livestock · fish · fruits · baskets · plastic bags
- Southeast AsiaVietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia
- fisheriescommercial fishing, fishing boats, fisheries, fishing nets, fishing fleets
- wildlife tradewildlife trafficking, illegal trade, poaching, ivory trade, rhino horn
- food streetsfood stalls, food carts, street vendors
- tropical healthmalaria, dengue, dengue fever, cholera, typhoid
- Vietnam CitiesHo Chi Minh City, Saigon, Hanoi
retail format
wet marketssupermarket
Self-service food retailer
grocery store · hypermarket · big-box store · convenience store · Walmart