Borough Market London - Part 2

Date: 3 May 2008
Venue: Borough Market, London Bridge
Tube Station: London Bridge
Camera: Canon Powershot A430 4.0MP

Related Post: Borough Market London - Part 1

Bakery

Bread, baguettes, cakes, cookies, pastry. The traditional food for European people. It has lots and lots of history and they are still eating now. There are too many types of bread that I still can't recognise them all.

Baguettes, Croissants...

Tarts, cakes, etc...

Oat cookies

Traditional Gingerbread man

If not mistaken, the brown bread with square on is call sour dough.

Cheese

CHEESE~~~!!!!! It is so so popular here that it has tonnes of cheese available in too many sizes and varieties. I really am not an expert in cheese so I just try to capture some of the special ones. I just know that some of them like blue cheese smells very strong and other cheese... I have to no idea... there are cheese tasting at nearly every cheese stall so I tried some. Not bad at all but it is really not cheap.

Blue Cheese?? Is that Fungus??

Goats cheese, for goat milk lovers...

What kind of cheese is that?

What do you think of the price?

This thing here, is one of the new stuff that I know only after visiting Borough Market. That 2 yellow thing is cheese while the grey metal machine is something like a stove, it melts the cheese from the top. When the cheese melts, they scrap it off and spread it on either bread or potatoes... Trust me, it taste really really nice. People are queuing up for it... again... not cheap. 1 portion of toast cost £3 which is so small that you can finish in 3 mouthful. Potatoes and pickles portion will be £4.

Seafood

Seafood, a must for a market. It is exotic usually but you can find cheaper seafood here as well depending on your budget. Alive or dead, they all have.

There we have, clams. They open it and customers just grab it straight away, eaten raw with some lemon juice on it. Many Asians eating though. When I was there, a Hong Kong family was there eating as the clams were opened up. I really lost count of how many they eat but in the end they pay £25 for the 'meal'.Slurrrrrrpppppp......................

Look at these lovely fishes and prawns.... mouth watering.....

XXL Madagascar prawns.... £39.60 per kg... maybe 2 prawns per kg?

Sea Urchins...

Sweets

British people loves sweets and desserts. Their chocolates and sweets are so sweet that you will choke by it.

Chocolate truffles stall....

Cranberry, quite famous around. It sells sweets and dried fruits and nuts... Everything you can think of...


Specialties - Salt

What can I say... Salty!!! Even salt has so many varieties and mixtures... I wonder how they use them.... it's not cheap....

Normal French sea salt....

with herbes de provence...

with seaweed....

with hot spices....?

....and with Oregano and wine???? my goodness.... salt with wine....

Ostrich....

There is 1 stall which is specialized in Ostrich. As under the meat category, I already introduced Ostrich meat... and here.... Ostrich Feather Dusters!! £6.95 for one!! I wonder who's gonna buy and use it.... that price...

and this!! What for??? £14.30!!!!
Ostrich Grill..... Doesn't really taste interesting though... £4.. damn...

Well, that is all about Borough Market... A very interesting place to visit.

Borough Market London - Part 1

Date: 3 May 2008
Venue: Borough Market, London Bridge
Tube Station: London Bridge
Camera: Canon Powershot A430 4.0MP
It was again another sunny weekend so I decided to visit one of the interesting place in London which many tourists doesn't know but yet still so many visitors around - Borough Market. The whole market is located next to London Bridge Train Station, while on top of it is the railway which trains go in and out of the station so frequent that you can hear rumbling sounds of trains passing by your head all the time when you are there.
This current Borough Market started trading since 1756... how long was that!!! But before this current one there was still longer history before it!! You can read the history of Borough Market by visiting the website. Basically, it is just a market which you can find all the usual market stuff around.

It is divided to 2 parts, the main part and another one is the Green Market which is just situated just beside.
The Green Market has more cooked food compared to the main market. It will be in Part 2.

As I mentioned, this is just a market which sells everything you can imagine in a market, but more, and some specialties as well.

Fruits & Vegetables

Watermelon anyone?

Colourful enough?

Organic fruits & vegetables are very trendy here.

Mushrooms - All kinds

There are of course still more fruits and vegetables but all are nearly the same so I just took some special ones.

Meat & sausages

As for meat & sausages, there are more exciting than fruits & vegetables, well, not in the sense of colour as they all look red anyway, but in the way of choices and varieties.

Lamb stall... everything lamb...

Sausages or salami? I can't differentiate...

Ostrich products

Ostrich Steak... £24/kgOstrich sausages... £11.60/kg

I had one of the Ostrich Grill which I will mention later on... It taste like... Ostrich....

Bacon... all types... you name it they have it.

The top on is just a bacon stall, this one is a shop. EXPENSIVE!!

Picture shown is Salamino Rovajo which cost £5 each which use free range pork. Free range is something like Organic as well, which the pigs are not living in the cage, meaning that the pigs are left running freely around the field when they are still alive. English people say, better quality meat and more humane.

Pancetta Stesa, which is full of fat as you can see, is the opposite of the sausage in the previous photo which is very lean. It cost lot more but totally different form. It costs £18.95/kg!!

Polish sausages. I heard my Polish friends telling me that they are very nice... haven't try though... not cheap la.... geeezzzz.... but it looks very nice..

Fruits, vegetables, meat, sausages.... more varieties to come in Part 2.... maybe part 3 as well?