Easy Mandarin 3 - At the market

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Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews. We also use this format to expose our street culture abroad and create a more diverse image of our countries. Episodes are produced in local languages and contain subtitles in both the original language as well as in English.
Host of this episode: 亞璇 Ya Hsuan
Camera: 皓婷 Hao Ting
Edit: 從慈 Cong Cih
Translation: 強尼 Johnny
Hi, everyone. We are Easy Taiwanese Mandarin.
Today we are at a traditional Taiwanese market.
In Taiwan, there are already many convenient supermarkets and supermarkets.
However, the market is still indispensable for Taiwan.
Hello, what would you like to buy today?
Probably fruits and vegetables.
What are you picking here?
This is papaya.
Vegetables.
And fish and meat.
Ginger and green onions.
This is a very good place in Taiwan.
You can buy a lot of vegetables for free.
Ginger and green onions.
I bought beef, beef tendon and beef tripe.
So what are you going to cook?
One beef tendon is going to be braised.
It's braised beef tendon and beef tripe.
The other beef tendon is going to be soup.
Today I'm going to buy some beans.
I'm going to buy a lot of chickpeas, mung beans and black beans.
I'm going to buy a lot of them.
Because recently I realized that I don't want to eat white rice outside.
I want to eat more natural food.
So I bought a lot of them today.
So you bought these grains to replace white rice.
Yes, it's healthier.
Do you usually see the sun-dried rose petals on the market?
I think so.
I think it's very special.
How do you cook it?
I'm going to make a secret sauce.
What are you buying today?
Onions.
These are the onions from Hokkaido.
What are you going to cook?
Curry.
What are you selling?
We sell seafood.
Can you introduce it to us?
This is our toad and geese.
Our toad is from Chiayi.
It has never been saline-washed.
We use a live vacuum bag.
It costs 100 yuan per bag.
It can be stored for a long time.
This geese is also from Dongshi.
This is a frying pan.
Is it inconvenient to bring it here?
It's okay.
It's a small truck.
Do you usually set up stalls in the market?
Yes, we set up stalls here.
We sell fruits every Saturday.
How many seasonal fruits are there?
Oranges, liu ding, and apples.
We also sell wontons and dumplings.
Do you make them every day?
Yes.
When did you start selling?
We've been doing this for more than 30 years.
You've been doing this for more than 30 years?
Yes.
We've been doing this for 67 years.
You're really old-fashioned.
Yes.
What is that purple dish?
That's seaweed salad.
We usually eat it with barbecue.
In western restaurants,
we use it as appetizer.
It's seaweed salad.
This is shrimp.
This shrimp has a big head.
It's delicious.
This shrimp has a small head.
It's not delicious.
Can you say that?
It's red and beautiful.
So oranges like this are sweeter?
Yes.
It's sweeter.
We pick the milky white ones.
We don't pick the purple ones.
The milky white ones are...
Not too green.
This one is green.
This one is white.
It's more mature.
It's wild shrimp.
Is that so?
Is that why it's frozen?
No.
Because it's wild,
we have to freeze it
as soon as we catch it.
We have to keep it fresh.
Do you usually come to this market
to buy vegetables and meat?
Yes, because my house is nearby.
Do you think this market is easy to visit?
Yes, it's easy to visit.
It's open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
It's even busier than in the morning.
A lot of office workers
come here to buy groceries.
Do you usually come to this market
to buy groceries?
Sometimes.
When I have time.
If I don't have time,
I come here at 7 a.m.
It's not healthy.
So I think it's better to come to the market.
I'm free on Saturdays.
Do you think the market is more fresh?
Yes, and it's more busy.
People who buy vegetables
are all very interesting.
So it's good to come here.
Because it's raining so hard,
we have to go home.
Bye-bye.
