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Among the shop keepers interviewed by us, an uncle
vendor of neritic squid impressed us most deeply, because there was a shoulder
pole by his stall. Only after interviewed him, we knew that he carried his
shoulder pole from Yilan to Luchou to sell neritic squid s and some local
marine products.
After heard his life story, we decided to walk along
with Uncle on his "going home" way, to pursue every footprint of him
carrying shoulder pole.
Fish
vendor from Yilan
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Uncle selling
neritic squid is from Yilan, he has been selling neritic squid for 31 years. He
has been in Luchou Market for 9 years and in other places for 22 years. He's
popularly called "shoulder poler", who takes a train from his
hometown far away, foot by foot, to seek for a place for selling goods, so he
has stayed in many places.
Now he's in Luchou, because someone here was just going
to rent a site to him, so he stayed here.Uncle mainly
sells his goods at the stall in Luchou, he is in Luchou on Wednesday and
Sunday, on Friday he's in Hsinfu Theatre and he will be in Mengga on Tuesday
and Saturday.
He said he's very satisfied with his occupation, because
he said he's old after all, it's enough to him that he could make a living by
himself. And he said the most joyful thing in this profession was free working
time, the most toilsome thing was when meeting a station having stairs, he
needed to carry goods stepping upstairs or downstairs with him.We
asked him, "isn't it a toilsome work to carry things from that far?" But he said with a smile, "Let people living in a
place far from the seaside be able to enjoy fresh neritic squid s, that makes
me very delighted!"
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Uncle tells us that people living in different
places, sometimes their favorite food and habits are different, too.
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Removed the apron, he spent only five minutes on
closing his stall, and he piled baskets before going back to Yilan!
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The
most toilsome thing for uncle is to get on and get off the train during moving
between Yilan and Luchou.
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We see many "shoulder polers" when we
walk out the platform of Yilan Station.
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Expedition
to Yilan Fish Market
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We went to the market to
interview uncle vendor of neritic squid the other day, and we knew his neritic
squid were bought from Yilan Fish Market, so our "market commando"
decided to make an expedition to Yilan Fish Market, to take a train along with
him to experience the toils of "shoulder polers".It was
a long journey from Taipei to Yilan, however, eating his neritic squid s while seeing picturesque scenery,
we felt very happy! After reached the
destination, we took some photos with Uncle and we said good-bye to each other,
and then we went to visit nearby fish market! When we got there, we saw
a lot of marine products, including clove fish, fries, and neritic squid and
fish we'd never seen, it really widened our views.
When we
walked into Dasi Fishing Port,
we saw fishing boats putting in one by one with full load from far, there were
piles of fish on the ground. Suddenly, whistles rose, and people began to cry
biddings with a sort of particular term we could not understand, and the market
was livened up! It seemed that if you didn't act quickly, you could not live
here!
This is the operation mode
of fish market, including going to sea, fishing, putting in, discharge,
bidding, bulk buying, transportation and distribution, we can have fresh fish
because of many people's arduous work, we appreciate them!
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Uncle walks out the railway station and gets on
his motorcycle to prepare for afternoon work.
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There are
various fresh marine products in Yilan port.
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The marine neritic squid was brought by these
ships.
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The
vendor says these clove fish are very fresh, I want to have a taste of them!
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