The Streets of Hanoi

Unloading the Pig Feet

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These are quite a delicacy here.

Veggies

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Just about any you can think of.

Fruits

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Also just about anything you can think of, but slightly different. Bananas are smaller, oranges are green, and some things I just have no idea what they are or how to describe them.

Live Fish

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Ready for the restaurants to come get and butcher.

The constant stream of motorbikes

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The hum of their motors and blare of their horns is a constant sound in the city.

Dried Fish

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What a god awful smell this part of the street has. Think of the start of the Afroman song about the fish market. If you don't know what I'm talking about, that's probably a good thing. Just know it smells rank.

Garlic, ginger, and other spices

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From terrible smelling to amazing smelling in five feet.

Chilies and veggies

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When you're above this many chilies, you can smell and feel the heat. Crazy hot. Also crazy delicious.

Portable market stall

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They carry the two baskets connected by a stick of bamboo on their shoulders. You can find these selling just about anything, including raw meat.

Typical restaurant

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This is where I had breakfast. Notice how small the tables and chairs are. The kitchen consists of a pot of broth set to boil and some meat and noodles in a glass case

Fish Stall

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On the left side of the picture you can see that a fish is about to meet its end.

Eggs

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Of all types. Chicken, duck, quail, etc. Also, you can buy eggs that have an embryo in them. Not like a spot of blood, like a fairly formed chick. You suck the yolk out through a hole then eat the chick, bones and feathers as well. I have yet to try this one but it's apparently quite good.

What are these fruits?

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Dragon fruit is one. I don't know what the other one is.

Chicken stand

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In the front you can see in the basket that you can get absolutely any part of the chicken you want.

Chicken two ways

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Living in the front and chopped up in the back on the table.

Poultry

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If you look closely behind the ladies you can see the birds in their cages. I saw one slaughtered, plucked, and gutted on sight. How bout that for a morning.