Mercado Emiliano Zapata

This had to be my favorite place we visited on our trip. If I lived and cooked in Puerto Vallarta, I’d be a daily shopper here at the market. I think we ended up going almost every day because we discovered a little breakfast place right outside where this woman prepares nopales. I got to watch her in action every morning.

There are so many fruits and vegetables for sale, great stacks and bins of them. I couldn’t take pictures of everything, although it was all beautiful. A few of the representative vegetables:

I could look at these shelves for hours, trying to figure out what they are selling and what it is used for. For now, it remains mysterious.

This woman worked hard squeezing orange juice. The cashier, who spoke a little English, asked us if we wanted juice in plastic or glass. Being used to preferring glass jars at home, we said “glass.” Turns out she meant a cup of orange juice, so we walked away with a huge Styrofoam cup of juice with a straw. The metal grid seen at left in the foreground was part of a tall arched cage which could be filled with a supply of oranges for squeezing.