A lot of cities have fresh markets, but wet markets are unique to Asia. These are fresh food markets named due to using water to clean floors because of melting ice, cleaning fish and washing vegetables. They sell spices, produce, fresh flowers, fish, beef, pork, chicken, frogs, turtle, cow tongues and really any type of animal part you may ever dream of. These markets so smell a bit "fishy", but they are in fact quite clean and bustling with business. They open very early in the morning and close around noon.
There are two areas to a wet market - a wet and a dry area. Products like vegetables, meat, fish and live animals are sold within the wet area. Items like spices, herbs, dried noodles, dried seafood beans and flowers are sold in the dry area. You can get many great deals bargaining with the stall owners. However, unfortunately the stall owners constantly quote me a higher price because I'm caucasian and they always quote Yani a lower price because she's asian. Thankfully, Yani does most of our shopping here because of this.
