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Fishy interlude: An amazingly detailed model of a Tsukiji market maguro (tuna) by Hobbystock

Since we are in the middle of the Fish section of Japanese Cooking 101, here’s an interesting story about a plastic model of…a fish. Sounds weird, you say? Well you have to see this to believe it. It’s made by a figurine and model maker called Hobbystock, and designed by a 3rd generation Tsukiji market wholesale company called Yamawa.

The model is 33cm (about 13 inches) long. Not as big as a full size bluefin tuna at the Tsukiji Market - the type that fetches thousands of dollars - but still pretty hefty. It comes packaged in a realistic looking box, packed in styrofoam, rather like you might get a fresh fish direct from a supplier in Japan.

And, it comes completely apart, exactly how a real tuna is cut up by a professional. It re-assembles again of course, and can be displayed on the included display stand.

It looks like a neat way to teach your kids, or yourself too, how to cut up a fish, don’t you think? Well..the kicker is that this amazingly detailed model costs 29,400 yen - that’s about US$295. So it’s clearly not a toy. Maybe an ultimate display item for a fish shop, or a sushi restaurant? It’s not quite clear who the intended audience is for this. I’d love to take a look at it in person though.

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Mong La’s wildlife market

Mong La is an odd place. Perhaps one of the oddest. Located on the Chinese border, the city lies within Myanmar, but is part of the semi-autonomous Wa State, a finger of land controlled by the United Wa State Army, an ethnic militia closely associated with drug production and trafficking. The Wa — former headhunters — have their own government, license plates (attached, almost exclusively, to white, ’90's era sedans) and road signs. Chinese is the lingua franca in Wa State, and the Chinese Yuan is the accepted currency. Mong La is one of the few cities in all of Myanmar to have electricity 24 hours a day.

Years of open and unrestricted prostitution and gambling made Mong La the epitome of the lawless border town. The vices were a huge draw for Chinese tourists, who came in great numbers to visit casinos, fornicate, take photos at the town’s “zoo”, and catch a stage show at the town’s transsexual cabaret. Drug use among locals was rampant and open, and Mong La became known in the western press as the “Las Vegas of the east”.  Finally, in 2005, the Chinese authorities decided that the party had gone on long enough, and closed its side of the border to all but locals.

Today, Mong La is largely the shell of the place it used to be. The Wa authorities claim to have eradicated drugs in the area, and have erected a bizarre museum to honour this achievement:

Many of the town’s casinos are abandoned:

The former transgender cabaret is crumbling and covered in weeds, and the town has an overabundance of huge, mouldy hotels.

Yet the one vice that appears to have survived in Mong La is the trade in wildlife.

In one corner of what appears to be an otherwise typical Southeast Asian market is a knot of vendors selling items gathered from the forests. Goods range from paraphernalia associated with wildlife — porcupine quills, bile, bones, organs:

including what appeared to be squares of elephant skin:

to entire animals, dead and alive, including civets and voles:

reptiles and birds:

larger animals including deer:

and smaller animals:

I had been taking photos for several minutes and to my surprise, the only person who objected was the woman preparing the animals above. Although she couldn’t speak Burmese (very few people in Mong La appeared to), it was clear that she was threatening to call the authorities if I continued to take photos, so I left.

In addition to these vendors, there were also shops around the perimeter of the market stocked with what appeared to be ivory and exotic animal pelts; eyewitness reports and photos online suggest that tiger skins and organs are among the wares available.

It’s a disturbing sight, particularly when coupled with the state of the environment surrounding the city, one of hills bald from deforestation or covered by vast rubber plantations. Yet Wa State’s autonomy and increasing demand from China ensure that the trade in wildlife will continue indefinitely.

Mong La’s Morning Market
Mong La, Shan State, Myanmar
6-9am

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Baan Thoet Thai’s morning market

Despite its location in a narrow river valley between some of Thailand’s most breathtaking tea plantations and a remote stretch of the Burmese border, Baan Thoet Thai, in Chiang Rai, doesn’t look like much at first. The surrounding mountains have been mercilessly deforested, and the town clings to a dusty, scruffy strip of road where people drive too fast and where there seem to be more karaoke bars than restaurants. But it does have an interesting history: in its previous life as Baan Hin Taek (Broken Stone Village), Baan Thoet Thai was, during the late ’70s and early ’80s, a hideout for Khun Sa, the notorious Shan narco-warlord once dubbed the ‘Opium King’. Get off the main strip and you’ll also find one of Thailand’s most diversely populated small towns. The bulk of the village’s inhabitants appear to be Shan, but there are also many Chinese, the descendants of KMT fighters who originally fled communist takeover in 1949. There are also quite a few Akha, and the area is thought to be home to the first settlement of this group in Thailand. Other groups living in the area include Lahu, Hmong, Tai Lue, Lua and Liso.

This diversity is most apparent at the village’s morning market, where these groups converge to buy and sell ingredients and dishes unique to their cuisines, bizarre goods imported from Myanmar, fruit trucked in from China, and edibles scrounged from the surrounding forests. It’s really one of the more unique markets in Thailand.

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Baan Thoet Thai’s Morning Market
Baan Thoet Thai, Chiang Rai
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Nan’s Saturday market/ถนนคนเดินน่าน

Nan is a charming town in northern Thailand that, it must be said, has one of the least charming eating scenes in the region.

There are a couple famous northern-style laap places, and the take away food at the evening market looks tasty, but all the restaurants I’ve eaten at over the years serve some pretty abysmal food. (And it isn’t just me: Nan natives have also confided in me that their city’s restaurants suck.)

Luckily, the situation has changed somewhat with the arrival of Nan’s weekly street market.

Just about every provincial capital in northern Thailand is holding a “walking street” market these days. Chiang Mai’s is the biggest, but similar markets can be found in Lampang, Pai, Chiang Rai and Nan. Having been to all of these, I’d say that I like Nan’s most of all. There’s a distinct emphasis on food, and market had at least six vendors selling a pretty interesting spread of local dishes:

There were even a couple vendors selling unusual local sweets:

But best of all, those who organise the market have cleverly set up a table with stacks of bowls, dishes and silverware. Simply grab a dish, take it to the vendor, who will fill it for you, then sit down to eat it at one of the northern-style tables shown at the top of the post.

I opted for the vendor at the southernmost end the of the market, and ended up with one of the best meals I’ve had on this trip. There was yam phak heuat, a slightly tart northern-style salad made from the tender leaves (phak heuat; ????????) of a tree one only encounters up north; it doesn’t look that sexy, but this is one of my favourite northern dishes, and this vendor did a really excellent version. There was also nam phrik khua, a deliciously savoury/spicy dip made from garlic, shallots and dried chili:

So assuming you’re in town on a Saturday, don’t waste your time with restaurants; the Saturday market has finally provided Nan with an interesting, perhaps even charming, place to eat.

Nan’s Saturday market
Th Sumon Thewarat, Nan
Saturday, 6-10pm

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Pai’s Wednesday Market

Like many areas in rural northern Thailand, Mae Hong Son province hosts a mobile market that sets up shop in a different town once a week. I happened to be in Pai when the market came into town (it’s held in Mae Hong Son city on Sundays, and in Soppong on Tuesdays), and on a very cold Wednesday morning, stopped by.

It’s a low-key affair that brings together a handful of vendors selling an almost exclusively local selection of produce: think disks of dried soybeans, freshly-ground turmeric, black sesame seeds, mustard greens. There’s some bizarre stuff imported from Myanmar — herbal remedies, suspicious-looking tinned curries and ancient-looking sweets — and several prepared food vendors. The latter make it a good breakfast option, particularly if you’re in Pai, and it’s possible to get a hot bowl of khao sen (thin rice noodles served with a pork and tomato broth), crispy deep-fried triangles of chickpea flour (pictured above) or Shan/Thai Yai-style sweets.

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Pai’s Wednesday Market
Behind police station, Pai
7-10am

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Bo.lan Farmer’s Market

Today, the folks behind the Bangkok Thai restaurant Bo.lan transformed their parking lot into a farmer’s market. There were vendors selling organic herbs and vegetables, rice, organic health care products, fruit and even a few prepared snacks and sweets. The turnout was greater than expected, and Dylan (the lan in Bo.lan) suspects they’ll continue hosting the market, holding it on the first Saturday of the month. Stay tuned to Bo.lan’s Twitter feed, @bolanbangkok, for details.

Bo.lan Farmer’s Market
Bo.lan
42 Soi Phichai Ronnarong, Soi 26, Th Sukhumvit, Bangkok
02 260 2962
1st Sat of the month, 9.30am-2pm

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September 29, 2011Asian Market Shopper app in action! (video)

Chronicle Books, the San Francisco-based publisher that collaborated with me to produce the Asian Market Shopper app, invited me to write a guest post about the iPhone app for their blog. I didn’t want to repeat myself too much since I had already written about the app on VWK in “Cool New Tool: Asian Market Shopper app” back in June.

However, I had this idea: Could we make a simple (unscripted) Flipcam video of using the Asian Market Shopper at an actual Asian market?

For many people who are new to Asian markets, venturing to one can be intimidating. There are many unknowns. You’re going into an unfamiliar territory looking for something that you’re unfamiliar with. Then, there are the potential language barriers. On top of that, you’re hoping to whip out an iPhone to bridge the communication and cultural divide!

Plus, though the app has recipes, it's not a cookbook. It's reference tool to help you shop smart and purchase the right ingredients. A video would help people understand the app's potential. Would Chronicle Books be willing?

Peter Perez, associate director of marketing, was totally game and we made a date to rendezvous on Clement Street, a major Asian hub in San Francisco's Richmond district. It was awkward for me to demo the app and Peter had already tried it out, so he persuaded his colleague David Hawk to test drive the app on camera. 

The market where we ended up shooting had lovely fresh vegetables spilling out the storefront. Alas, all the hand-written signs were in Chinese. Explaining our project was challenging. At first, the market clerk was baffled -- my survival Mandarin didn't cut it --  but then I showed her the app. She instantly got what we were up to and grinned ear to ear. "Okay, okay," she said, nodding with approval to give us the go-ahead to make this video:

 

It was one thing for me to use the Asian Market Shopper app myself but it was really cool to see how it worked for David. Along the way, we made an new friend with the market gal! I hope you have a chance to explore and use the app to its fullest too.

If you don't yet have the Asian Market Shopper and want to check it out, Chronicle Books is doing a giveaway of three (3) FREE downloads of the app. To enter the drawing, leave a comment on the Asian Market Shopper post on their site. Note that the video is part of that post.

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How's that Android version coming along?

Posted by:Mike |September 30, 2011 at 10:01 AM

Mike! I will investigate the Android progress. But maybe you also pose the question to Chronicle Books? Here's a shortened URL for the app post linked above:

http://bit.ly/n5rGgr

It's good for them to hear it from you and me! ;)

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June 20, 2011Asian Market Shopper Winners + New Asian Cuisine Giveaway

Boy, thank you for the more than 50 entries in the AMS app giveaway. I was tickled by your humor and touched by your enthusiasm for Asian cooking. The remarks ran the gamut and here are a few that caught my attention: (I’m paraphrasing and adding respones of my own.)

Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before? [I'm sure I wasn't the first to think of this. I just had the opportunity to bring it to market.]I normally play charades with the Asian market staff [A new Cirque de Soleil show idea?]Maybe the app will help me avoid buying fermented black beans with a shard of rusty metal it in! [Sorry, can't help you with that one.]I’m a Viet college student, and my dad always coked, so now I’m on my own trying to learn how to cook on my own [Young people's keen interest in cooking may save our planet!]I have an Android phone… :( [Sorry, indeed!]

To pick the winners, I numbered the qualifying entries and then used Random.org to select 5 entries. [DRUM ROLL…] And the winners are: 

(#6) Anne(#14) Kelly(#30) Amanda(#43) Paul(#50) Tu Doan

I’ll be contacting those folks today to provide the low-down on how to redeem the Asian Market Shopper prize. Again, thanks for entering! 

6/22/11 UPDATE: If you missed or would like another chance to win the AMS app, head to New Asian Cuisine's giveaway. The NAC site is a terrific portal for Asian recipes co-published by food marketing veteran Grace Niwa and author/blogger Jaden Hair (SteamyKitchen.com). To enter the NAC giveaway, you just have to let them know what Asian ingredient you'd like to learn more about! More details about the AMS giveaway on NAC...

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