I love real markets. This one is inside a crumbly old building. While it's smack middle in the city, just a block from a busy main road, you would never find it unless you already know it was there or by chance. It has a wonderful atmosphere.

 

On the left: a shop selling various pickled goods: paprika stuffed with cabbage, pickled green tomatoes, and I'm sure sauerkraut too.

"In 1932, the Hungarian scientist Albert Szent-Györgyi, using Vitamin C from a red pepper, proved that scurvy was caused by Vitamin C deficiency." (Wikipedia)

 

Mmmmm... Smoked meats...

Hungary has more types of bacon than Eskimos have word for snow.

Poultry of all kind can be bought here too. The ones hanging with their feet dangling are roosters. At least that's what the note on the chest of one claims.

Many people don't know that real chicken - corn fed and free range - have yellow skin. While the chickens for sale are usually sans their heads, they always have their feet on.

 

This other market is much bigger and resides in an old, but recently renovated building on the Pest side of the river, right across the Gellért spa on the Buda side. Besides its local customers it also attracts a lot of tourists, mostly from Germany and Austria.

 

 

 

 

It's also a good place for people watching.