Cua Lo seafood market on the first day of the year

(Baonghean.vn) - Visit Cua Lo Seafood Market at the beginning of the year. Although not as busy as usual, the seafood is still very fresh and delicious. Products from the first fishing trips of the year of the local fishermen are mainly consumed here, the prices of some items are not much different from normal days.

The market starts on the 5th and 6th of Tet.

The Tet holidays are not over yet but food for sale is quite abundant.

Fresh food is sold right at the market entrance.

Seafood prices at the beginning of the year are not much different from normal days, clams are sold at 30 thousand/kg.

Medium shrimp and crab cost 100-140 thousand VND/kg.

Fresh squid is sold for 100,000 VND/kg but not many people buy it because of the belief that eating squid at the beginning of the year is taboo.

Snails sell quite well at 100,000 VND/kg.

After Tet, many families choose fresh herring, mackerel, and pomfret to improve their meals. Herring and mackerel cost 40,000 VND/kg.

Sea bass used to cook porridge is also a hot selling item at the seafood market at 100,000 VND/kg.

Compared to seafood, there are very few people selling meat and the prices are quite expensive, beef is 280 thousand/kg.

There are only 1-2 dried food stores open, mainly serving people returning home for Tet to buy as gifts.

In order to serve grilled dishes and seafood hotpot, vegetable vendors at the seafood market import their goods quite early, and the prices are also double the normal price.

The seafood at the market is guaranteed to be fresh and delicious because most of it is the product of the first bumper fishing trips of the year by Cua Lo fishermen.

Khanh Ly - Thanh Nga