Sunday, August 17, 2008

Dried foods market



Sunday 17 August 2008

This is the dried foods market, where you can buy tea, dried fruits, veggies, fish, or mushrooms, candy, herbs, medicine, and all kinds of other stuff. Ryan and I stopped in today to get some apple chips, and found that the whole market was making offerings to their ancestors today. (As I mentioned earlier, it is Ghost Month.) There was a group of devotees walking up and down singing (in a wailing, whining sort of style), an altar set up for the main ceremony, a stage where three more scantily-clad girls danced to pop music, and of course all of these personal offering tables. It was quite the afternoon!

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