Markets!

For some reason, Hong Kong markets are grouped together by theme, as if to force intense competition, and providing great convenience for consumers. Want tropical pet fish? There's an entire street for it. Birds? An entire network of alleys. Shoes? A veritable small neighborhood of shops. Indoor food markets (nearly empty by afternoon, as freshness-obsessed shoppers scorn anything that hasn't just been set out for sale); outdoor night markets; herbal medicine streets; dried seafood (shark fins! flattened ducks!), wet seafood, and live animal markets abound.


Smashed ducks

Pancakes (饼, the most versatile Chinese food word, extending to cookies, crackers, tortillas, many kinds of sandwiches, basically anything largely composed of flattened starch) being rolled out at Shilin Night Market in Taipei



Nuts roasting in Macau, much more high-tech machine than the large roasting pans that cover the streets of Beijing in the winter

center of Macau


New Years candies in Taipei

Chickens killed only seconds ago, Hong Kong food market

See above

See above

Hong Kong indoor food market




Hong Kong dried seafood market

Shark fins being sorted, Hong Kong




Herbs

I finally found Schizandra berries here (五味子）