(Baonghean.vn) - Tam Thai market (Tuong Duong) is held on the 10th, 20th, and 30th (Solar calendar) of every month.Here, there are many special products of the highland people such as: mice, frogs, snails, fish, shrimp...
» Strange wild mice with sky-high prices: 100,000 VND each
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| Tam Thai commune market (Tuong Duong) held its first session on September 14, 2014. Previously, the market only met once a month on the 14th and 15th, now it meets 3 days a month. The market is a place for local people to exchange goods mainly from hunting and gathering in the forest and in their gardens. Photo: Dinh Tuan. |
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| Ms. Kha Thi Duyen - Na Tong Village said that recently, her family caught a lot of frogs. After catching them, they were cleaned and hung in the kitchen to be sold at the market. People bought the frogs to cook nhooc - a favorite dish of the Thai ethnic people in Western Nghe An. Each string of frogs like this costs 10,000 VND. Photo: Dinh Tuan. |
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| Mice are one of the best-selling items at the market. Photo: Dinh Tuan. |
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| Cleaned wild mice are sold for 40,000 VND/small mouse. Photo: Dinh Tuan. |
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| Recently, people in the villages of Tam Thai commune have caught a lot of shrimp. Shrimp are sold for 100,000 VND/kg. Photo: Dinh Tuan. |
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| This customer from Do Luong district happened to pass by during the market and managed to buy a crossbow. Photo: Dinh Tuan. |
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| Brocade items are also sold quite a lot. Photo: Dinh Tuan. |
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| The tops of the tree are used to make soup. This dish is only available in the highlands. According to the locals, soup made from the tops of the tree will help nursing mothers produce more milk. Photo: Dinh Tuan. |
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| Goods sold at this market are mostly grown in home gardens and found by people in the forest or on the fields. Photo: Dinh Tuan. |
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