The local huge market, Part II! - Fruits & Veggies Monday by @lenasveganliving and Foodphotography Photo Contest by @juliank and @photocontests

Hi there, Steemians, have a happy week!

Continuing my visit to the Taibessi Market, the huge market in Díli I've started to post about last week, here are a couple of photos more with interesting veggies and fruits, with a legend!

This kind of square-shaped bananas aren't for eating as the usual bananas we buy in our countries. These ones are cooked, and we eat them either boiled and after dipping them in the local chili (called aimanas, very HOT!) ou fried, sliced and eaten as potato chips. I love them both ways :)!

Locally made tempeh (delicious!) is what you see wrapped up in plastic. We can buy 6 of them by 1 USD! Then the local tomatoes, that taste... like tomatoes!!!
In the middle, those long veggies looking like rugged zucchini, are called BARIA. I don't know the name in Portuguese and even less in English. I had never seen them elsewhere in the world. And haven't seen them wherever I've been so far in Asia! They taste sour and strong, and people usually cooked them in stews, together with other vegetables. They can also be rawly sliced and be added in the "budu" kind of spicy salad I've told you about last week.

Chinese cabbages and lettucces. This market is the kingdom of the cabbages, like my friend said, lol! There are cabbages everywhere, of all kinds, either at the stalls or sold by the street vendors, like this one! And... they're all organic, too... and they're all about 0.25 USD each, if not cheaper.

When I talk about these cheap prices, that doesn't mean East Timor is a cheap country. On the contrary, it's very expensive, especially for the expats that live here. There are 2 economies, one for the locals and the other for foreigners. This market is not the kind of place foreigners go, so they can pay 3 ou 4 times more at the markets where they usually buy.

But I love this one... especially to take photos. Street photos. People photos. Timorese love to be photographed and I love to photograph, so it's a win-win situation. I love to capture their smiles and poses, and, even more, to take candid photographies, when they don't even notice I'm there... :)!

Like this one :)))

Hope you have enjoyed this post! Many more photos to come!
Have a great and healthy week!

This is my entry to the

Fruits & VeggiesMonday -initiated by @lenasveganliving

and

Foodphotography Photo Contest initiated by @juliank and @photocontests

Cheers to all!

Yours,
Isabel
@nolasco

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