Mainland Tourists Visit Macau Local Markets, One Kilogram Equals Sixteen Taels, Was I Scammed?
How can you quickly understand the local life when you arrive in a place? Visiting a market is definitely a fast way to integrate into local life, allowing you to quickly understand the local price level and human level. This time going to Macau, we investigated where the Macanese people liked to go to the market the most. Many people said there was a place called 'Yue Han Market'.
Don't look at the name so elegant, in fact, it's just a Macanese market. Every time I travel myself, I will go to the local market to take a look. From the market, you can know the local living level and customs and traditions. It can be said that the market is a microcosm of local life.
When you arrive here, there are no more luxurious and extravagant buildings, but rather a lot of urban streets and buildings. Yue Han Market is a municipal complex, including a market street, a fixed hawker area, a municipal park, a sports field, and a parking lot. Although it is a market, it is very clean and tidy, and there are no bad habits of throwing waste everywhere.
Yue Han Market has two floors, the first floor is mainly selling seafood. Even before entering, you can smell the aroma of seafood. Here the seafood varieties are abundant, such as giant clams, limpets, various fish, and mud snails... The varieties are very complete. There are also many fish we can't even name, but they are a favorite of the Macanese people's meals.
Yue Han Market is really where locals come. Not only is it full of life, but the prices are also very affordable because it is frequented by people who live here. But it's this kind of feeling that I like most when traveling.
And the circle beside the market is a variety of spices and goods. Seeing a few grandmothers selecting there, I wanted to go up and listen to the lively scene, but I didn't realize they were speaking Cantonese, and I didn't understand a single word. Here, Mandarin is not common, and everyone is used to communicating in Cantonese. Here, we are just passers-by, and we can't follow the local customs and bargain with them in Cantonese.
You can see that buying vegetables in Macau is sold by weight. Looking at the price, isn't it quite expensive? When bargaining, I happened to meet a person who speaks Mandarin, and he told me that one kilogram in Macau is equal to 16 taels, which is much cheaper than buying in the market. In our market, one kilogram is equal to 10 taels, and Macau adds 6 taels, which is not cost-effective.
Will you like to go shopping in these markets? Welcome to leave a comment in the comment area to discuss.
