The vegetable market in the local rural area of Wanrong, Laos looks like the rural area of China in 1980s. When I first came in, I saw that the local people were sitting on the floor selling vegetables, and there was no noisy hawking. The market was still quiet. Local vegetable farmers sell vegetables by the whole catty, and some vegetable farmers' stalls are plates of vegetables weighed in advance and sold by the plate. According to the scene, local vegetable farmers are not good at counting, and there are no calculators and scales on the stalls. The weight of vegetables is mostly sold according to the number of rounds and volume.
When I came to the weighing fruit stand here, I saw that the price of 3 kilograms of durian was around 70 yuan, and the price of mangosteen and rambutan was11 kilogram in 7 yuan, which was not much cheaper than that in China, but bananas and mangoes were still cheaper here, and 3 yuan was one kilogram more, so 100 yuan was enough to buy more than 10 kilograms of fruit locally.
There are still many stalls in the vegetable market here, but there are many vegetables sold locally, all of which are melons and beans, but those vegetables are rarely sold. Because Chinese cabbage can't be grown locally suddenly, the most expensive dish sold locally is Chinese cabbage, 18 yuan a catty. After a day's shopping in the vegetable market, I found that many Laos like to buy vegetables such as loofah and cucumber, while locals prefer to buy them for vegetable salad.
I came to the salad cafeteria selling vegetable stalls here, and 30 yuan Renminbi ate casually here. Salad without meat is only eaten by Laos locals. Local farmers in Laos generally have a light diet and basically have no meat for three meals. They are used to eating more vegetables. Most of them are locals, and they see slim women in Laos.
There are also many stalls selling old rice noodles in the vegetable market. The local price of a bowl of shredded pork rice is about 15 yuan, which is not very cheap. However, as the Lao people whose per capita GDP is only one third of that of China, they still often come to Lao rice noodle shops for consumption, and they still like to eat Lao rice noodles which are not cheap.
The pork stalls here are often visited by many flies because of the hot weather, and the sanitary conditions are not good. The average price of pork here is around 12- 15 yuan, and a catty of pig red 2 yuan. Therefore, many local people who can't afford pork will buy pig blood to cook at home, and pig red is often added to local soup rice noodles.
The stalls selling fish and tilapia here are all the same, and the price is quite expensive, about 18 yuan a catty. Local tilapia are generally large, and many of them are wholesale from the fish ponds of domestic bosses. Most tilapia farmed in Laos come from China, because Laotians are not very good at contracting fish ponds to breed tilapia.
After visiting the local vegetable market, I realized that the price of the rural vegetable market in Laos is still not very cheap, and the price of economically backward countries may not be cheap. Despite the lack of local materials, the Lao people still live a contented life. In the local vegetable market, you often see many Lao people drinking beer while selling vegetables. For them, living a good life today is far more important than ideal. The local people believe in Buddhism, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the local rural customs are still very simple.
More local customs, welcome to continue to pay attention.