A day in a Malay Sunday market – Malaysia

Eric — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:01:09 +0000

The early bird gets the worm and that is what you need to do if you are looking for the freshest food, you need to hit the fresh market early in the morning. We went to the market slightly after dawn and most of the best / fresh stuff is mostly gone. Either way, it was a good day at the market.

This market is located at Tanjung Tokong, Penang Island. It was a great experience to see some of the locals doing their grocery shopping.

A dry food vendor selling numerous things such as sun dried fish to herbs. Dried fish or shrimps anybody?

Chicken Vendor / Poultryman looking over some of the fresh chicken that just came out from the processing line. Notice the weighing scale on right of the vendor which is also used to hold up the price of the chicken.

Pick the freshest eggs you are looking for... the vendor is selling chicken eggs to duck eggs. They sell it by the dozen or by the single egg.

Fishmonger with a customer looking straight at me. This lady is pick the fish that she is looking for and putting it in a basket where fishmonger will weight it.

Extra service provided by the Fishmonger. This guy will clean the gills and remove the scales of the fish for free. Talking about going above and beyond for the sale.

Butcher on wheel. This butcher will is selling from the back of his motorcycle. It takes skills to do this job, professional butcher and motorcyclist.

A modified bicycle with a baby carrier tied to the bicycle frame. I guess GIANT Bicycles can't replicate this.

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A day in a Malay Sunday market – Malaysia