More Phood Photos
{Note from Jess: I'm trying to take photos of the things that are common to us here but foreign to you, before they become so familiar that I overlook the uniqueness and forget to take photos of them. I hope you like these posts. If not, overlook them and I'm sure I'll do more story posts and kid photos soon!}
This is one of the stands where we commonly buy "nan", the local bread. They often bake onion slivers into it, and its shape makes for perfect pizza with the mozzarella we bought!
Onion Cart
This is a more common way of drying peppers- on a clothesline, instead of on the cement
A local meat stand -- you point to the cut you want, tell them how much you want, and then they cut off your piece, weigh it, and stick it in one of the green bags to the left
6 comments:
That's so cool.
A question, though - exactly what kind of meat is that?
Lamb. Lamb is by far the most common meat eaten and available here. There are other meat vendors that sell beef as well, and there is one lady we know of that sells frozen chicken breasts.
I have yet to buy lamb, not because it's not good (we eat it all the time when we eat out), but because I haven't yet experimented with cooking with lamb. I have a few recipes that I need to try- I just haven't yet.
But, yup- it's lamb/mutton.
Actually, this may be TMI, but it's not uncommon to see dog offered as a meat option. There is a certain breed of dog that they breed here for the specific purpose of food.
And about 3 weeks ago, some of our neighbors were having a festival and celebrated by eating horse. I won't go into too much detail, but apparently they don't kill it all at once because our friend went by and though they had already starting carving it up, our friend still heard a raspy breathing noise. (Sorry if that's TMI- Too Much Information, but it's the truth of life here.)
Shudder. Not TMI, just reality, like you said. I guess meat is meat, really - what's different between eating a chicken and eating a dog? (Although, this is why if I ever live overseas I may become a vegetarian.) :)
I've had lamb once - my dad tricked me into eating it. I am sure if I had it again it would be okay.
Yeah- we eat lamb quite a lot here. It's actually very delicious. We like it a lot- it's a nice stand-in for beef, since there's not too much good beef to be had here.
I should note that I'm not contradicting what I wrote earlier: I do have yet to cook lamb, but we eat it a lot because it's the most common meat to be found in restaurants when we eat out. Eating out is so cheap that we do it quite regularly... so all that to say, no I haven't cooked lamb, but yes, we do eat lamb a lot. :)
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