Fish and Seafood

If you would wish to see fish in as close to their natural state as possible—fresh fish, live fish—then the winding Ching Ping Market in Canton or the teeming markets of Yau Ma Tei and Sam Sui Po on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong are the places to visit. The Cantonese must have fresh fish, fish that are swimming when they are bought, and in these markets sit huge square galvanized-metal vats and tanks filled with live carp, silver carp, bass, eels, trout, flatheads, dace, and the long and special catfish of Asia, as well as shrimp, lobsters, prawns, cuttlefish, and squid.