Everyone loves a good outdoor village market. We found a great one, just outside of Erawang, in Loei Province, Thailand. Let’s take a look!
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On the left are a few fruit and spice vendors, but mostly clothing, and on the right is the food section.
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Walking along on the left, we found these large bags of spices. We are hoping that one of our Thai readers will tell us what this is!
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Nothing beats fresh pineapples! We got 2!
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After that, we decided to cross the street and see what was over there.
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What we found was more varieties of spices and food than you can imagine.
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Look at these wonderful fresh vegetables. Thailand is know for excellent cooked and raw vegetable dishes.
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This woman is selling steamed local fish.
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These are “snakehead” fish. You don’t want to know how bad this basket smelled.
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This market has everything – including Taiwanese political t-shirts! Actually, we only saw this one, but it was totally out of place in northern Thailand.
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Now, we come to the meat section. Here we see the usual pork stand offerings, including shaved ribs that have no meat on them.
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And this is the beef vendor. No grill cuts, just pot fare, along with the required organ meats.
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50,000 ways to burn your tongue beyond recognition.
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On the way out, I noticed this small restaurant. Actually, what I noticed is the speakers for karaoke. I always thought that Taiwanese were loud people. Then I went to Thailand…. The entire time we were in the market, someone was playing ads though a PA system that must have belonged to Led Zeppelin because it was so loud my ears were hurting. No one seemed to mind at all.
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All of 10 meters away though, it was back to village life as usual.
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