2 Special Markets

Two special markets in Guangzhou (Canton).

1) Qingping Chinese Plants (Herbs) Market, in west of Guangzhou. The Market is composed of many little shops, each shop sells more or less the some things. The principal business is wholesale, individual can buy also.

**Those in the rightare Codonopsis pilosula, Dangshen党参, they are the roots of the plant. The traditional chinese medicinal use ofDangshento treat cardiovascular, pulmonary and digestive conditions.**
`The others on the left I don't what they are.`

**Illicium verum,Badian, Chinese star anise (八角), a very common spice**.

**Chenpi 陳皮, the dried peel of Tangerines, one common ingredient in traditional chinese medicine, can be used for daily cooking aswell.**

Ganoderma lucidum,Lingzhi (灵芝), you don’t eat this mushroom directly, must break them into little pieces even in powers, than to make soup or tea with, than drink the liquid. The chinese believe such liquid is very good for the health.

**Qingping Market. There are dried plants, roots, herbes, flowers, fruits (all edible).**

**The shopkeepers are from all over china, the market opened 7/7, closed 2 weeks during the Chinese New Year, when the shopkeepers go home to see their families.**

These 2 items that I bought in the Market:Dried flowers of Hylocereus undatus霸王花, from a cactu in which is very close to Dragon Fruit cactu, but this cactu flower can never turn into fruit; Peach Resin桃胶, it is a resin secreted from the bark of Rosaceae plants such as peach or mountain peach.

Before cooking, dried flowers and peach resin have to be soaked into water for some time, than can be used to cook (with meat for example), Peach Resin can also be used to do a dessert with pear for example.

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2) Tissues Market, in the South-East of Guangzhou. This Tissues Market functions the same way as the market mentioned above: many little shops, shopkeepers are from all over china, opened 7/7, wholsale, closed 2 weeks during Chinese New Year.