Wet Market Shopping

Here going shopping is a bit different than your basic trip to Vons or Costco. The "supermarkets" here in Langkawi more likely have mostly dry goods. Shelves are stocked with canned goods, paper products, some frozen things but very little in the way of fresh fruits, vegetables, fish or meat. For those sorts of things we go to the wet market. For the freshest selection it's best to plan your trip first thing in the morning. For us it's first a dinghy ride to shore then a taxi to the market place.

The front on the Langkawi market is devoted to fish, beef and poultry. The rear half fruits and veggies.


Each vendor has their own stall and different product. For the beef here you just tell him what you want and he will carve out your choice. We saw no grinders to make hamburger.


In this stall we purchased a half of a Wahoo, which the operator steaked out for us at a cost of 16 ringgets per kilo. That figures to about $2.50 a pound.

Here we see an example chickens, they normally include the feet along with some cuts of beef


We've finished our shopping and now are spending a bit of time in the "food court". Kathy has decided we should sample several of the different local delights, I couldn't tell you what any of these might be but she added another couple of things and the price was less than $2 US.

Through out the market place there are a goodly number of scavenger's and my guess would be this would be a most unsafe place for any mice or rats as we saw a minimum of 100 plus cats. they seemed quite happy and well fed.

For frozen meats: chicken, pork, beef or sausages, bacon we find these items in a freezer in the back of any number of Chinese duty free shops that have mostly liquor displayed but other goodies in the back.

Shopping here is definitely a different experience!