Seller preparing spicy sausage well known in North Thailand, market close to the Chiang Mai Gate, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
If you want to buy fruit in the West, you usually go to one of many big supermarkets. Where from almost hospital clean boxes you choose the food that you want, weigh it yourself and in some places even pay without talking to a supermarket employee.
Maybe that's the reason why tourists like fresh markets in Southeast Asia. Something so common for local residents is astounding for tourists. All the smells, noise and hustle and bustle in local markets, mixing with sleeping vendors during lunchtime with motorbikes whizzing by.
Photographs were taken at different (not only) food markets in Vientiane, Laos; Chiang Mai, Thailand; and Hanoi, Vietnam.
