Respecting and understanding that this appears to be truly a local, produce and food market in the country of China, I was not concerned about seeing the hanging, dead dogs, nor the bunnies, etc. (don't get me wrong, I didn't love it either, but when in Rome....or at least, in Yanghsuo and every other farmers' market in China...), and I was so fascinated that I kept looking every which way to take it ALL in; the every-vegetable-of-every-color-that-you-can-think-of, the harvest from the sea (frogs, snails, eels) being picked at and cleaned by rubber gloved women, tofu, fruits the size of golf and baseballs, meats and poultry from two-to-four-legged, men gossiping, women haggling, young kids waving hi, and more. If it was not for the fact that we were here primarily to buy items for our cooking class, I would have lingered and taken at all in even more.

Foreign markets are always fascinating, seeing what the locals buy to eat. And you have to travel with an open mind. So the vegetables were great The toads, water snakes, snails, turtles, were just about ok. But the sight of two eviscerated dogs hanging at a meat stall was too much. You have been warned