São Paulo, Brazil
Hello friends!
It's Friday and we can go around and discover another market, one of those places where the life of a city is truly palpable, a meeting place where everyone finds themselves in search of those wonderful, desired and sought after products, whether food or other objects. And we can share that experience later with others here, thanks to the wonderful #MarketFriday initiative by @dswigle
And this week I am with a monograph on São Paulo, the huge Brazilian city, and I have already shared something of its central streets, of some characteristic neighborhood and we have even taken a comforting walk through its green lung, its great park. Now we are going to visit the main city market.
The Municipal Market of São Paulo
Called by all “Mercadão” (big market) because it is really like that, big and full of people. Before arriving through the surrounding streets we are surprised by too many citizens who walk around, are they all going to the market?
The market is also located in the historic center area, on Rua da Cantareira (street), but very close there is another popular street, Rua 25 de Março, where one and a thousand stores are gathered, of everything, stores full of objects and things, of everything you would want to buy and more. They say if you can't find it there it doesn't exist but I don't know how something can be found among so many crowds.
But we managed to get around the mass of people and get to the market. A cluster of color and flavor. The exotic fruit market par excellence, fruits that it would be very difficult for us to see or find in other places, in Europe for example, there is everything here, there are many, there are more than we thought.
Thousands of strange and striking fruits, with curious shapes and bright colors forming pyramids, placed as if it were decoration.
Also other more discreet fruits, dried fruits, also a multitude and variety, everything you want and more...
More people in crowded corridors, step by step we turn around, looking over the heads to see those beautiful stained glass windows, suddenly it looks like the market of any Mediterranean city, where even that modernist style is glimpsed. But customers and sellers do not pay attention, they think about buying and selling, but also some about eating.
Because you can also eat in there, it's almost a tradition, many typical dishes but one stands out, a local friend will always recommend that you order the mortadella sandwich, because it's typical, because it's the usual. So without clashing we ask for it, we have to taste it!
And the sandwich reflects all that same environment, full and stuffed, not with fruits and people but with mortadella, the good kind, that tasty Italian (those influences are also Italian, there is an Italian area and a festival with spaghetti and also this city fusion you eat a lot of pizza, a lot and good). Well, the sandwich is abundant, with many slices, one on top of the other, and a lot of cheese, because here any sandwich and many things go with cheese, also in excess, and the flavor is intense. This is Brazil, colorful, tasty and intensity.
We are satisfied and ecstatic with many aromatic, visual and, of course, taste sensations. We liked it, any visit to a market like this becomes a total sensory experience, all our senses on high alert, and the enjoyment is unique. In this way, the visit can become a memory, a living memory, because we remember it as a moment full of color, flavor and life, really full in all senses.
Thanks for reading! Have a good and delicious day.
More about São Paulo here:
- Contrasts in Brazil: São Paulo downtown and the Japanese neighborhood Liberdade! - Pinmapple
- A walk through the Ibirapuera park in Brazil - Wednesday Walk
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