Huangsha Seafood Market (or Aquatic Product Trading Market) is located in Liwan District, Guangzhou city. It's said to be the biggest aquatic product trading center in Southern China.
Huangsha Seafood Market
It wasn't as bad as I expected... I mean, the conditions and cleanliness of the market. Of course, you don't want to go there with high-heel shoes or leather shoes. The ground there is covered with dirty water but as far as I know, almost every seafood market is like that.
So, I would say it wasn't the best but quite organized.
Many varieties of live seafood
In the market, I could find whole bunch of seasonal fresh, live seafood, like, lobster, abalone, clam, shrimp, crab, octopus, cuttlefish and so on...
You can purchase the seafood you like, bring it to the restaurants upstairs of the market and ask them to cook it the way you like. Though you still have to pay for both the ingredients and the cooking, at least you can eat the things you like in the way you like and it's very fresh for sure!
"Kuruma Ebi" tiger prawn (left), "Koh Ika" Cuttlefish
"Tako" octopus (left), variety of fresh sea fish (right)
Besides the seafood, I also found many different types of "weird stuff" in the market...
Alligators (or Crocodiles?), Turtles, Diving Beetles, Snakes, Worms and Scorpions!!
There is an old saying, mentioning about the food in Guangzhou (食在广州). There are several different ways to interpret it, however, people in Guangzhou told me that the saying means people of Guangzhou love to eat. That I strongly agree.
They say Guangzhou people eat everything in the sky except air plane, everything on the ground with four legs except tables and chairs, everything with two legs except human!
Turtle (left), Caddis worm (right)
Scorpion (left), Yellow Mealworm (right)
You can access to the market by taking Guangzhou subway -line 1- and 10 minutes walk from the Huangsha station.
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