I've spent the week in San Francisco working. Until today I hadn't had much of a chance to see anything. Today I had some free time and took a walk through China Town.
I was fascinated by the stores selling fresh meat and fish products. I am so used to packaged, indidually wrapped meat products it seems very odd to see the actual animals or large pieces of them. The variety of foods I couldn't identify was also very surprising.
If you are a squeamish about meat products you might want to stop reading now.
I warned you.
I was fascinated by the stores selling fresh meat and fish products. I am so used to packaged, indidually wrapped meat products it seems very odd to see the actual animals or large pieces of them. The variety of foods I couldn't identify was also very surprising.
If you are a squeamish about meat products you might want to stop reading now.
I warned you.
Here is a truck full of what appear to be freshly slaughtered pigs. The worked casually slung the pigs over their shoulder and took it into the butcher.
This is a box of frogs. While I've known all my life that people eat frogs and I've eaten frog legs myself, I've never seen a box of them at a market.
I don't really know what these are. They looked like something that grows in the ocean. If someone can tell me what these are I would appreciate it.
This display was an homage to the corporate organizational chart. There is a reason you want to be on the top of the chart.
This is a box of frogs. While I've known all my life that people eat frogs and I've eaten frog legs myself, I've never seen a box of them at a market.
I don't really know what these are. They looked like something that grows in the ocean. If someone can tell me what these are I would appreciate it.
This display was an homage to the corporate organizational chart. There is a reason you want to be on the top of the chart.
San Francisco Chinatown is fun to explore! I think you saw a stack of geoduck clams - I see the word "duck" behind them. Geoducks come from the area where I live, in the Pacific Northwest, and are valued for their special properties. Great pics!
Wikipedia does, indeed, have a reference to the "special properties".
"Geoducks are broadcast spawners. A female geoduck produces about 5 billion eggs in her century-long lifespan—in comparison, a human female produces about 500 viable ova during the course of her life. It is possible that this fact, in conjunction with the phallic shape of the siphon, has led to the belief that the shellfish has aphrodisiac properties."