Jesse and I saw a Chinese news report about a huge wholesale produce market open to the public. It seems the locals are going to this market since the food prices had jumped 16% in one month, due to impact of China’s worst drought in 50 years. This wholesale market supplies most of the produce to all of our local wet markets, supermarkets, restaurants and fast food outlets. The prices are a good 20-30% cheaper. This market had pretty much everything, from vegetables to meats to cookware to seasonings. We read that 150 million USD goes through there a day.
We’ve been trying to find skirt steak, from Pine’s to City Shop. “Meiyou” was their answer. So we decided to visit a real butcher. This was Jesse showing the butcher where the skirt steak was. In Chinese, it literally means 牛裙, if they’ve ever heard of it.
“Free range Plymouth Rock chickens. Incredibly tasty. 15 kuai a jin.” 1 jin = 500 grams, or 1.34 pound.
The sign reads “Unique purple skin garlic: fragrant, pungent, do not sprout and full of antibiotic properties .”
Hey Jesse and Stef,
Can you let us know where that market is?
Looks really fun!
Cheers,
Tommy
Hi Tommy, yes it’s at 2255 Wuning lu near Daduhe lu. 曹安路农贸市场,武宁路2255号(大渡河路武宁路)。
Hi Stef and Jesse,
Can you let us know where that market is?
Looks really fun!
Cheers,
Tommy
Seems funny that the same name “skirt” translate literally as the garment, 牛裙 (beef skirt) in Chinese, but also in Spanish (falda), and I just found out the same goes on with italian, german, french, russian, etc.
I thought it was called entreña in Spanish? Funny how these things literally translate.
Hey just stumbled across your blog! Makes me want to move to SH sooner!! Can’t wait to hit up the fresh food wet markets! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
You’re welcome! There’s a lot of fun foods to play around with in these wet markets. You’re going to enjoy Shanghai, it’s one of the best cities in the world right now. 🙂
Wonderful! Sounds like you’re having a grand experience! KW.
Hi Keith! It is a lot of fun, Jesse loves exploring. When are you coming back into town, Shanghai misses you!
Just made a visit to the place. It is HUGE and a lot more chaotic than your very kind pictures. But if you are into cooking, you will find many items you cannot find in your local grocery stores.