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HK MAY 18-20 54 EAT & Affordable Art Fair DRINK MO 58 WEIRD EATS OF THE PRD Take a walk on the wild side. 61 MERCATO Believe the hype. MAY 22 Feast of the Drunken Dragon THE WRAP 4 | GZ | MAY 2018 | WWW.THATSMAGS.COM MAN ON THE STREET CITY Shooting Stars The photographer documenting China’s ‘Weird Architecture’ era, p14 THE DIRTY DETAILS EEL MONGER Monthly income: RMB2,000 and up A Slippery, Slithering Sales Job Days per week: 7 Hours per day: 12 (4am-4pm) By Daniel Plafker r. Xie wears boots to fish markets everywhere. Xie, whose stall can be found he maintains that the creatures work. And if you plan It strikes a marked contrast near the southeast corner of the can survive up to a month in Mto visit him while he’s with the stately, peaceful airs of market, not far from the ferry their crowded tanks. on the job, we recommend you Shamian Island, which lies just pier, has a singular focus in his Business is brisker in the consider doing the same. That’s across a narrow moat to the east. product range: eels. Two main wintertime than the summer, by because Xie’s place of work is The floor is a mire of guts, scales, varieties, the larger of which is Xie’s estimate. He suspects that the Huangsha Aquatic Products dark puddles and crisscrossing as thick as a human arm, squirm this is because people prefer to Market, aka Guangzhou’s biggest streams of mysterious liquids. and writhe in Medusa-like piles eat eel in cold weather. The best trading center for fish, crabs, Hence the rubber footwear. in large glass tanks. It’s a scene preparation? “Steamed, with a clams, prawns, crocodiles and It’s not the prettiest place reminiscent the 2004 art-house bit of soy sauce,” Xie says with every other type of seafood that that Guangzhou has to offer film Anacondas 2: The Hunt for confidence. At RMB60 for a half the rivers, bays and fish farms of visitors but it’s certainly one the Blood Orchid. Their warden, kilo, there are cheaper, less South China can muster. not to miss. There’s something the amiable Mr. Xie, is an early squirmy meals on offer at the The market’s winding lanes strangely beautiful about the riser, arriving at 4am each market, but few that are likely to of huddled stalls and multi-level, stacked masses of doomed sea morning to begin his 12-hour put up as much of a fight. open-air warehouse section life and, between the sights, workday. are a storm of commercial smells and deafening noise of “That’s not even early by activity. Terrified sea life of hollering hawkers and bellowing our standards,” he insists. “Some every imaginable variety flop buyers, there are few places in folks have been setting up their desperately from brimming the city that offer a comparable stalls for an hour already by the tanks and barrels, specially blast of sensory stimulation. time I get here.” kitted-out trucks-turned- Not to mention, it’s a trove of Xie has spent 10 long years aquariums rumble through the ingredients for the culinarily- hawking his slithering charges, crowded alleys at a snail’s pace inclined. all of which are farmed – not and beleaguered men hurry There are even a few shops wild-caught – elsewhere in from stall to stall dragging nets, on the upper levels that will kill, Guangdong. City Snapshot PFLAG China stacking traps and pushing carts gut and cook up your purchases “A truck comes with fresh P8 P10 of shellfish amid the pronounced for you on the spot.