Descriptive Essay

The Market

The market is the placee where we get all the primary things that we need in our daily life. All the fresh fruit and vegetables are found in the market. We even pick the best ingredients that we could find to cook our favorite dishes and desserts.

I went to the market this morning and the first thing that I noticed is the different voices of the people inside the market. The whispering voices of the people buying and the vendors who persuades and negotiate with consumers to buy their product. On the left corner of the market, I can hear the woman calling customers and trying to sell her fishes to the people who walks pass her. She sells variety of fishes some are big and some are small. The lights above them hit the scales of the fishes and it glows in front of your eyes as if they were shining diamonds. As the vendor grabs her blue drum full of fish and transfers it to the table made of tiles for display, the scaly body of the fishes glimmered when they spread together for the costumers to see. The fishes have some kind of foul and salty smell but you can tell the fishes are fresh because the bodies of the fishes are firm and not lumpy. Beside the fish vendor is a woman who sells different kinds of vegetables and I hear her loud and husky voice saying,” here, fresh ampalaya, alugbatti, okra, kalabasa. Just name it and we have it.” When I turned to see her, she’s a happy vendor with a slender body wearing a red shirt. She was packing a bunch of lemons and laughing while calling out costumers and at the same time talking with her co-vendor who sells tapioca, nata, oil, soy sauce and vinegar. The woman in red sells many kinds of vegetables on her wooden table. I noticed the shiny and violet skin of the “talong” and they were in medium size with fresh green stems. The “talong” feels smooth to the touch unlike the wrinkly body of the “ampalaya”. Beside it are green leafy “pechay” and fresh green Bagiuo beans. She also sells big sized carrots and white radish and they both have brown lines on their skin and green stems but they definitely look good and fresh. She sells potatoes in medium and big size and they have traces of dark spots and dirt on its skin which is rough when touched. Basically, all of her vegetables looked like there were in their best shape for all the costumers looking for fresh and delicious products. There are also fruit vendors who sell mangoes, bananas, watermelons, pineapple and etc. But what I love the most is the sweet smell of the large yellow mango that lingered in my nose when I walked pass by a woman slicing one of her mangoes and the smell was divine. But as I walk around, a foul and rotting smell entered my nose and it almost made me want to throw up. Some vendors are piling off their rotting products in a corner and it created an awful smell. It was very disappointing to see people who neglect the policy of making the market clean for everybody.

You can find all sorts of things in the market. You can find the freshest fruits and vegetables but at the same time you can also find low quality food and sometimes rotting smell all over the place but the experience of seeing products that are not in good quality will definitely make you a better  person of choosing what is fresh and what is not.