In lieu of a substantive update (which I hope to get around to soon!), please enjoy these photos I took last weekend of Châu Long market in Hanoi’s Ba Đình district, dear reader(s).
Fruit and vegetable stall.
Eggs! Duck, goose, quail, chicken-without-fetus, and chicken-fetus. (The cage-free and factory-farmed eggs were described as “eggs from happy chickens” and “eggs from unhappy chickens,” respectively.)
How much would you pay for a bag o’ frogs?
Cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O!
Woman chopping meat with a cleaver.
Sketches of Hanoi 