We got up at 4am to catch an early morning flight into Hong Kong, and made it back to Taipei around midnight. A quick stop to do some more visa applying (for residency this time), meet some of the folks from Jian Hua (who will facilitate our language learning in Tianjin), and take a couple pictures along the way.
You’ll see pig snouts and nets of live frogs in the meat market; a guy using an abacus; turtle shells and snake skins; and packages of paper clothing/shoes, which were next to paper stereos, cigs, cell phones, computers, and T.V.’s – all used as burnt offerings to the dead. And, lest people get the impression that Hong Kong is all street vendors with animal parts, we included a shot from inside Pacific Place, one of the many upscale shopping malls. On this occasion a couple of violinists were celebrating Mozart’s birthday.
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Wow!! I never realized how long pig snouts were!!!
where was the mall looking place in respect to the shop of assorted scary things?
That particular mall is right in the heart of the downtown business district, attached to some skyscrapers. I don’t know how close the nearest street market would be to that one because we didn’t run around there much (the visa office was across the street in yet another glittering skyscraper).
The photos from the trip before of the market with the fish heads and pig ears and all that, that market was a two-minute walk from a big 4-story ritzy shopping mall selling high fashion, $6 coffees and all that yuppie snob status-symbol foreign stuff (and with internet in the coffee shops!).
What exactly are the pig snouts for…please don’t say lunch!
Abi….
Lunch, but not my lunch…unless it’s a matter of offending somebody!!!!
No pig snoouts for Grama Effie, but Grampa Vic would try pigs tails if cooked. Love from Niagaraxox
Pig tails? Is that some sort of delicacy out east? That’s probably the one animal part I haven’t seen, though I’m sure it’s just that I haven’t noticed yet.