Fish market

                                                                                                                                        2016.03.27(Sun)
Yesterday, our family went to Nanfang-ao, where is known for its fish market.
 Consequently, I want to show you the fish market in Taiwan.

Fish market in Nangfang-ao
(There is a short video I took in the fish market.)

( I used the 360 view camera to take the picture, so the person disappear...)

This is the view outside the market, as you see, it just nearby sea.

Therefore, the fish can be delivered to the stall directly.

View inside the market.

There are many stall in a market, so that you can choose anyone to buy the sea food.

Sashimi in Taiwan.

I don't know if Japan sold it in the market, but you can easily buy sashimi in the fish market.

View in the market.

 Fish with big eyes.

 Ramune, it's easily found in the fish market.

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Walking through the street in Nanfang-ao, I found a shop which sells the dried fish.

As you can see in the pictures, many dried fishes were hung outside the door.

Put fish on the net to make it dried.

Before.

After.

                            

The decoration in the store is made by the real fish. 

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There is a large Matsu temple in Nanfang-ao, so I saw the activity that day.

Matsu is a goddess for fisherman, so the Matsu temple nearby the port always is the largest.

Let me show you some pictures.

VIDEO I took.

( You can click it to watch the activity.)

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Finally, let me show you a vendor here.

Many stalls in Taiwan are similar with this one.

We call it 小吃攤, if translate in literally, it is " little eating stall ".

It is not a store but a stall.

Not luxury but very delicious!

Some cuisines.

Sauce.

Transplanting rice activity

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Last Saturday, the transplanting rice activity was held by Gu-Dong Club around my home.
Therefore, let me show you some details about this activity.

It was started at 14:00, and people were coming.
If you wanted to participate in this activity, NT 200 dollars are needed for the insurance.















First, Dad brought them to the temple,and pray for everything will be okay.
The temple is not too far from my home, so they will walk there with some thing (cookies and fruits) to put in the temple.

After praying, people came back and prepared for the transplanting.
If you felt starving before working, there were some vendors so that you can buy something to eat.
The vendors are friends of my family, many of them are farmers, either.
They plant vegetable without using pesticide, and making some cuisine and dessert by themselves.

There are also people from Hong Kong and Singapore farm in Shen-gou, consequently, they sold cuisines made by themselves.

Finally, it's the main theme today --  Transplanting rice!
Almost everyone eat rice as staple food, however, few people have had the experience of growing it, especially people who live in the urban district.
As a consequent, you can see many people have fun in the field wit mud on their clothes and body.
I think it'll be a unforgettable experience for them in their life.

Drawing the lines in order to make people know where to plant it.

Using a special tool to pick up the rice seeding.

A lot of mud on their clothes , arms and legs.

But it is hard for them to transplant the whole field, therefore, farmers ( who were selling initially. ) help us to transplant finally. :P

I've participated in this activity for more than ten years, but it's still make me have a lot of fun every year.

Finally, there is the photo of the activity in the field.

Spring in Shen-gou

                                                                                                                                         2016.3.14(Mon)
Spring is a busy season in a farming village.
Recently, farmers in Shen-gou are busy for the preparing for transplant rice seedlings.
With no time to cooking for lunch, farmers in Shen-gou always gather at the place nearby the Mrs. Cat's restaurant for their meal, where called Farmers' canteen.
It's not a restaurant but a place for farmers to rest or having meal.
Every Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, a farmers will cook for the lunch.
Each people pay NT 60 dollars, and they can have lunch there.
People should turn to cook, so that everyone will cook for others at least one time.
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The preparing work recently is to stir the field and make it level.

By using the machine like the picture show.

This machine can stir the mud in the field.





This machine can make the field level, so that when managing the state of field after transplanting
rice, the water in the field will cover averagely.
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 Things inside are rice seedlings, covered by the net is in order not to eaten by birds.

Next Saturday ( 3/19 ), the transplant rice seedlings activity will held in my house.

By these seedlings, participants will transplant it into the field.

Therefore, I'll introduce it next week!