Comments on: Mercato del Pesce al Minuto, Venezia

By: Betchay

Betchay — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:50:02 +0000

I stand corrected on my comment above….senior moments….sorry….it was not on a Samantha Brown episode but on Anthony Bourdain’s Venice episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyQvTefwP48

By: sha

sha — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:52:17 +0000

best part of visiting this market was, I was able to shop and cook in Venice ;-)

By: G F Mueden

G F Mueden — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:40:59 +0000

I watched one man fill mixed orders for restaurants. He entered them in an old fashioned sales book (paded with carbons) and addressed them with rubber stamps, one for each customer. The totals must have been substantial. They all went out iced in plastic foam boxes.

All refuse is sorted on the dock, wood, paper, plastic, garbage, and loaded on a barge with its own crane using big containers with doors in the bottom for dumping.. It is a well planned operation.

===gm===

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:24:55 +0000

F, I think stone crab claws on ice.

By: F

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:43:21 +0000

Hey MM, what’s on the left side of the clams in the top picture?

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:05:16 +0000

Connie C, yes, some of this stuff had traveled a long way. Most of it properly packed on ice, but still older than seaside in Palawan. However, some of the goods on offer were things you don’t find in our neck of the woods. As for the produce, it looked MUCH better in Venice, post on that up next. :)

By: Connie C

Connie C — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:00:32 +0000

Still the catch don’t look as fresh as those you featured in Coron and Cebu wet markets, squid and octupi changing colors, shrimps almost jumping off the stalls and red blood oozing out of fish steaks as they are being sliced. Is it just me or did you feel that way too MM?

By: millet

millet — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:53:38 +0000

love this! must be frustrating to be in front of such bounty with no kitchen within cooking reach!

By: marilen

marilen — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:50:26 +0000

Gorgeous!!

By: Betchay

Betchay — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:24:54 +0000

Wow!….the bounties of the Mediterranean Sea! I think this market was shown in the Venetian episode of Samantha Brown.MM, did you go to Burano Island?That’s where I tasted the best risotto and from that TV episode I learned that they used the slow cooked broth of some fish seen only in that area and to attain creaminess they kinda pull the risotto like the Singaporean pulled coffee/tea……..so that’s their secret! :)