Our next stop was a stall that sold fresh chicken meet. With fresh I mean really fresh! Behind the stall there were cages filled with very vivid chicken indeed. The butchers would butcher the animals directly on the ground! I had never seen anything like this before. I like eating meet but still, seeing the animals cackling in their cages and then minutes later holding their fresh meet in my hands was an unreal experience for me. Yet this is the most natural way to get fresh meat! Especially at a place with tropical climate like Pontianak, the meet perishes really easily so it is safer to keep the animals alive as long as possible. However something like that is not possible in Germany given that the regulations for butchering and selling meet are really strict in Germany. Also the fish and crabs at the stalls where we went to next were sometimes kept alive in basins and then killed on the ground when a purchaser ordered them. Another small detail that caught my attention at the sea fruits area were the numerous cats straying in between the stalls, trying to get their share of food. And actually nobody really seemed to care when one of them stole a small fish.
Traditional Market “Pasar Flamboyan”
