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Vinh market, the largest wet market in Nghe An province, is comprised of about 563 vendors selling various types of food products.10 Of this total, 68 sell agricultural goods (nong san), such as peanuts, beans, and rice; 200 sell meat and fish; 50 sell vegetables; 200 sell processed foods and candies, etc.; and 45 sell prepared foods (like noodle soup or other small restaurants). Most fresh produce in Vinh Market is sold wholesale, then resold in 22 markets across Vinh city, or by ambulant vendors.
Goods sourced from the lowlands of Nghe An province included many vegetables (lettuce, water spinach, herbs, eggplant, tomato), seasonal fruits (orange, pomelo, bananas, papaya), rice, peanuts, sesame seeds, eggs, poultry, pork, beef, dog, fish, eel, snails, squid, shrimp, and clams. Foods that had undergone processing at the household (micro-enterprise) scale included tofu, pickled vegetables, fish sauce, dried fish/shrimp, and rice flour cookies/cakes. There were relatively few goods in the market that were sourced from the uplands of Nghe An province. Tea, bamboo shoots, cinnamon, and medicinal herbs were the main products.
Fresh produce from elsewhere in Vietnam that was sold at the Vinh Market included onion, garlic, carrots, and tropical fruits. Rice from Mekong and Red River Deltas was available. Industrially processed fish sauce, cooking oil, dried noodles, cookies and candies were also sold in the wet market. These products were mainly produced in the industrial zones near Ho Chi Minh City (e.g., Dong Nai) and near Hanoi and Hai Phong.
Very few imported foods were sold at the wet market. Watermelon and fragrant jasmine rice was available from Thailand, and apples, pears, and mandarin oranges were imported from China.
Source: www.yorku.ca
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