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A real, not-clickbaity, average Chinese wet market

Chinese Cooking Demystified · 908.9K views · 2020-04-05 · 4:26

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Chinese Cooking Demystified shows an ordinary, everyday Chinese wet market to counter sensationalized coverage during the early pandemic, with a pinned comment adding nuance.

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Linked to show that typical wet markets are ordinary, grocery-store-like places, not the exotic scenes often portrayed.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2020–2022

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Medicine & infectious diseaseCooking & foodMedia, journalism & propaganda
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forgotmyoldacc · 2022-01 · Reference

The term "wet market" just means a market that sells non-dry goods, like meat or vegetables. Most farmers markets are wet markets. See [VIDEO] for an example. Perhaps you mean campaigning against eating exotic animals?

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citrusybread · 2021-04 · Reference

>Have you seen a easy Asian wet market in person before? If you’re comparing it to Whole Foods I’m not sure you have? Have you seen one in the last decade? It's changed dramatically, and ranges from an open-air grocery store to yes something more depressing like what is in that wiki article. [VIDEO]

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vangelis · 2021-02 · Reference

I think the issue would be with bush meat, not with markets that carry non dry goods? Wet markets on the whole seem pretty innocuous: [VIDEO]

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