market – Travels With Tricia

Scenes from Vietnam’s Markets

At the outdoor market in Hoi An, Vietnam, baskets of fresh fruit (limes), vegetables (turnips), flowers, and live ducks sit on the pavement.

The stalls and baskets of Vietnam’s traditional markets overflow with a colorful spectrum of tempting produce: spiky green durian fruit, porcupine-like pink rambutans, chubby carrots, and spring-green onions that could inflict tickling torture. Ladies clad in nón lá hats share the new day’s gossip while selling mountains of rice paper, slabs of tofu, live chickens, flowers and herbs.