Choosing A Cricket For Fights

Pet market in Shanghai amazes with its range of animals: you may find ducklings, mice, turtles, fish, frogs and even cocroaches for fights.

WARNING: You'd better not read this while eating.

The market is not big - narrow passages, peculiar smell and cricket warble.

People buy songbirds for music in the house.

Talking parrot. At the moment it speaks only Chinese, though.

Future Peking Roast Ducks.


Fish section.



Food for birds. It's alive and is moving quickly.


Silkworms. They are said to be very delicious.


Singing insects.

There are holes in the pots so that the singing can be heard.

These are the whole choirs.


Crickets.

Insects are kept in special boxes with a hole through which they are put inside.

They are fed with cabbage through that hole.

Every fourth table abounds with "fighters".

Buyers first examine aspirants through the glass.

Then future champions are taken from the box and put into a round jar.

Insects get poked with a straw to see their reaction.

via sergeydolya