Every Tet holiday, people in Long Xuyen city and tourists often go around Tet market selling ornamental fruit at the corner of Hai Ba Trung, Nguyen Hue B streets in the pedestrian street area of Long Xuyen City (An Giang) to looking to buy ornamental, poisonous and strange fruits.
Types of watermelon, coconut, engraved with words … customers choose to buy for Tet – Photo: TTD
This ornamental fruit market area specializes in selling exotic fruits for those who like to collect and worship such as grapefruit, braised watermelon, square watermelon, gold ingot, golden melon. The coconut tree in Vietnam is famous for the traditional culture …
However, according to the traders here, these fruits are forced to mold, some must be very old … so customers buy them just to eat, not delicious.
“Meat shredding” watermelon pressed square mold – Video: TTD
At the booth selling golden coconuts with inscriptions, a tourist from Ho Chi Minh City chose to buy two coconuts engraved with the word Phat fortune, Phat Loc fortune for Tet, for 250,000 / pair. Aunt Tham, the owner of the store, said: “This year, due to early registration, I just came out” front “. Early holiday in the afternoon of New Year 29 compared to the regulation of noon 30 “.
Coconut carved in the typefaces Phuc – Loc – Tho, Dai Phuc, Dai Loc, Tai, Loc, An Khang Thinh Vuong … – Photo: TTD
Delivery to customers at Long Xuyen Tet market – Photo: TTD
Seedless watermelon, melon has the word: Dai Dai Dai Dai Dai Dai, everything as expected … – Photo: TTD
Aunt Tham sells a pair of engraved coconut letters for VND 250,000 – Photo: TTD
Enlist to have lunch when there are no guests – Photo: TTD
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