HAU GIANG – The people of Vi Thanh city have long been accustomed to shopping in the “squat” market, where small businesses can grow and sell.
Vi Thanh Agricultural Market is located near Cai Nhuc Bridge, Tran Hung Dao Street, Ward 1, Vi Thanh City. According to the small trader, the market has been around for more than 10 years, specializing in selling local agricultural products. Sellers often squat or set small chairs, arrange goods within two to four square meters around them. Therefore, this place is also known by the rustic name of the “squatting” market. Photo: Tran Thu An
Small traders are mostly farmers, growing vegetables by themselves or drying shrimp and fish to sell to the market, without having to buy through intermediaries. Therefore, prices are usually cheaper than other markets in Vi Thanh.
The market is also called “heap” market because goods and agricultural products are displayed on canvas and piled up on the ground. Particularly for dry types, fish sauce is listed higher to help prevent dust.
Coconut goby has been cleaned from 180,000 to 200,000 VND / kg. If you want to buy fresh and delicious freshwater fish, visitors should go to the market early.
Taking advantage of the time when there are no customers, the women arrange and sprinkle water to keep the green and fresh gathered vegetables for longer. Gathered vegetables include many different types of wild vegetables such as longan, sweet bud, spinach, kohlrabi, kohlrabi, amaranth … that grow naturally, not fertilize. Each type is a Vietnamese medicine to help calm the body.
A stall selling all the ingredients of lotus plants from tubers, peppers, seeds to mirrors.
The countryside market sells wild items, including fruit, which grow wild along the canals. People just spend their time picking, not planting. The fruit is dark green, shiny, round and slightly flat, used for cooking sour soup or fish stock. Young fruit has a sour taste, the bigger the transition from sour to sweet, so everyone who likes what taste should choose according to the size they buy.
The market is held from 2 am to 10 pm is tan, the most crowded from 6 am to 8 am. Ms. Vinh Binh, 40 years old, went to Vi Thanh market to shop for many years, sharing: “The market is very bustling and the food is fresh and cheap. Besides, I really like the image of sellers and buyers. squatting talking to each other, recalling an old memory of the South in the mid-modern era “. Follow vnexpress