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A wet market (also called a public market [4] or a traditional market [5]) is a marketplace selling fresh foods such as meat, fish, produce and other consumption-oriented perishable goods in a non-supermarket setting, as distinguished from "dry markets" that sell durable goods such as fabrics, kitchenwares and electronics.
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The wet market was built at a cost of $240,000, and was opened by then assemblyman for Queenstown Lee Siew Choh. [1] The wet market was visited by Queen Elizabeth II in 1972. [3] The market was closed in 2005 due to poor business caused by the demolition of nearby HDB blocks. [2] The hawkers of the market were relocated to other nearby wet ...
Bến Thành Market (Vietnamese: Chợ Bến Thành) is located in the center of Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam in District 1. The market is one of the earliest surviving structures in Ho Chi Minh City and an important symbol of the city. Ben Thanh Market is a famous destination for many local and foreign tourists from all around the world.
The Wuhan Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market (Chinese: 武汉华南海鲜批发市场), [1] [2] also known as the Huanan Seafood Market [3] (Huanan means 'South China') or simply the Wuhan Wet Market [4], was a live animal and seafood market in Jianghan District, Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, in Central China. The market opened on 19 June ...
A typical public market, in Danao, Cebu, locally known as a "palengke" in the Philippines A palengke ( Chavacano : palenque ) is a permanent wet market in the Philippines (differentiated from periodic wet markets called talipapa ).
Since the 1990s, wet markets in large cities have been predominantly moved into modern indoor facilities. Wildlife is not commonly sold in wet markets in China, but poorly-regulated wet markets have been linked to the spread of zoonotic diseases, including the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak, 2013 avian influenza outbreak, and the COVID-19 pandemic ...
The image isn't of a wet market (distinct from a single item in a wet market, e.g. a cage of ducks, a box of apples, a fish for sale). Ideally, the infobox image that represents a wet market in whole per MOS:IMAGELEAD. Since we currently don't have a high quality such image (maybe there is one in Commons somewhere but I haven't found one yet ...