As immigrants, perhaps we can find more ways to try to bring the vibrancy of the old world to Canada – with more open air markets, with street food vendors that sell more than just hot-dogs, by building a lively local artisanship scene and more cultural...
Bargaining at a market is as an elegant artform, akin to a simultaneous dance and chess match between two strangers. Growing up in Ganzhou , China, my grandparents would take me to the outdoor open-air market every weekend while they bargained for groceries. It is a scene that I’ve long been deprived of since moving to Canada at the age of eight.
In the market, hundreds of vendors spread out in the rows of stalls, while dozens of others sat on tarps on the yellow dirt floor in front of the market, and many sold fruits from the back carriages of their bicycles. Everything from baby mangos and baby bananas to large pineapples and watermelons, from eggplants to a hybrid between bok choy and lettuce that I have never seen before, from flip flops to electronics, from live chickens to fish.
Vendors tried to get my attention by calling me “my friend,” “my brother,” “China,” “Japan” or “Mizungu,” the local word for foreigner. Once they got my attention, the bargaining dance began.There are no price tags anywhere in the market. A friend told me that vendors will always try to charge me double what they charge the locals. But there is art to bargaining, something my grandparents taught me in the dirt markets of Ganzhou over 20 years ago.
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