SOME VENDORS IN GOA..****

I love people and I love to see the way they dress, the way they talk and hence whenever I get an opportunity to visit a place a market is the first place I visit it’s the window to that place, you can know and see the local people there, you can know what they eat, and also know how they talk and communicate with you

  

I have clicked some pictures in Goa of the vegetable vendors and the flower vendors over a large period of time and here are a few of them for your perusal 

 

some of  these ladies were so happy to be clicked that they actually posed for the pictures...

 In the picture above you see a grandmother , working at this age for her livelihood when she should have been at home and resting . The efforts of such people usually go unappreciated because of the situation that they fall in and earning becomes a compulsion.
I feel I could do a little bit for her by buying my plate of flowers from her and got her a chilled bottle of coke to quench her thrist in the hot afternoon that she was sitting  and doing her job,  My little act  lit up her face and that's what made my day,and I remember her shy smile till today.
They are very self respecting people and that's all that I could do for her....

 

Don’t you feel they are so real , no pretense , no makeup just doing their day to day hard work and earning their livelihood , so nice to look and interact with such people…I feel its these people that builds up the character of the place and makes it a place worth visiting... DO YOU AGREE??

DRY FISH MARKET AT MADGAON GOA........

DRY FISH MARKET OF GOA
My family loves dry fish especially dry prawns . They are of immense use when you have this craving for eating fish and don't have the time to go out to the fish market .
you will always find dry fish piled up in my freezer for the rainy day , and this is where i buy it from ,
come with me and enjoy this tour of MADGAON DRY FISH MARKET....


DRY MAKERAL

DRY BOMBAY DUCK (bombay duck in goa)

TINY DRY PRAWNS CALLED AS GALMO IN GOA

DRY PRAWNS



PACKETS OF DRY FISH YUMMYYYY.......

I normally buy only prawns and mackeral from the market as that's all that is eaten at home but there is a large variety available which people really relish...

MY LONG AWAITED GOAN TRIP....

LONG DISTANCE VIEW OF THE MADGAON MARKET

I love Goa , and i am not saying this because i am a Goan but because its really a beautiful place , compared to Mumbai where i stay i feel its much more quite and peaceful. Off course Mumbai has its advantages which makes a person stay here and earn ones living...
I had not visited Goa for the last three years and that's a pretty long time.. I was looking forward to this trip which i took in the first week of November .
Let me take you to the spots that i love to visit and are a must visit for me every time i visit *whew*...
The main intention of my visit was the temples which i never miss and must always visit..
and the second place is the market may it be big or a small one , this time i visited two of the largest markets in Goa one in Madgaon and the other in Panaji ,
You will find the pictures of MAPUSA Friday market here.
and you will find the pictures of the temples here.
HERE IS THE VISUAL TOUR OF MADGAON MARKET WHICH I VISITED..

FRESH AND JUICY PINEAPPLES


OKRA AND LEMON


LEAFY VEGETABLES



HOME MADE VINEGAR AND COCONUT OIL BOTTLES


HOG-PLUMS

TIRPHAL-small flavouring fruit
You can read about it here in this blog


A VARIETY OF SWEET POTATO

MAPUSA FRIDAY MARKET....

MAPUSA FRIDAY MARKET


For those who know me, must be knowing my love for visiting a market place especially when I am on a vacation
According to me a market is the hub and heart of the food culture of the place. you get to see so many things here, the locals the local fruits ,vegetables, fish everything.

I was in Goa last week and I had this urge to visit MAPUSA which holds its weekly market every Friday. It’s called as the SUNKRARCHO BAZAAR , with Sunkrar being Friday.

DRY FISH SELLER

I bought my yearly supply of dry mackeral and prawns from the above lady

when i tried to click this lady she was very inhibited in front of the camera , she said that she had never been clicked before and was trying to avert from the camera , but i finally managed to get a good snap ... and also took the dried prawns from her (you can see it at the right hand corner.The wooden thing that is used is called a 'map' or a measure by which the dried prawns are sold).

These are the common spices used in goan cooking and were very fresh here.

THE SPICE SELLER

MAPUSA market is known for its fresh farm products which the farmers and traders from all parts of Goa and beyond ,from kudal,sawantwadi,banda Come here to sell their goods and buy some for their personal use.
I went there a day before diwali, which is the “festival of lights” in India.
It’s a very important festival of the year and hence it was all the more crowded and people were all the more enthusiastic about the purchases of the day.
You name it and you get it at the MAPUSA weekly market fresh fish, dry fish, fruits , vegetable , spices , kitchen tools everything .There are no stylish stall , no fancy lighting , no glamour it’s a simple village market place , but the produce are fresh and tempting.
What attracts me about these markets is the burst of colors that you see, the liveliness of the people, the pleasant smiles with which they address you and the genuineness of the whole thing .

village people are very simple and very different from the city bred .