Christmas Day in Guangzhou is clod and rainy. Our hotel is a huge attraction to the local people and they are lining up to tour all the sculptures and art that is set out and see the beautiful Christmas decorations. Shawn, Meghan and I all have colds but our group is headed to the Quingping Market today.
Maggie loves to brush her teeth!
This is an herb market. Our guide says these shops look simple but these owners are all millionaires. It seems there is an herb for everything that might ail you and a soup can be made. Also the Chinese use mushrooms, many dried varieties, like the US consumes soda. All this is sold in the herb market.
Dried frogs can be made into soup.
Scorpions are sold by the kilo and they are not cheap. Making them into a soup helps with heat rash!
Moving on to the meat markets there were bags of snakes, crabs every kind of creature of the sea and I mean every kind, not fish necessarily, either although plenty of that too.
The foul is fresh in this shop.
This is a kitchen shop.
The pet market selling all sorts of pets. Now you can apply for a license for 5000 yen and have a pet. A dog or cat.
This picture doesn’t show it well but this was an outdoor mall which was incredibly crowded. Like people touching you constantly crowded. Our guide said its like this always.
Merry Christmas to you all!
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