Last Saturday, I went to an open air market at Williamson Square, Liverpool city centre. Its no ordinary local market that sells local farm foods. It’s a ‘German market’, which run by a group of nomad people who had no permanent abode but moves from place to place around UK and whole Europe to sell their own-made stuff. It has become one of the tourist attractions and specialities in UK.
It’s really a different experience to see different culture and people with different skin colour interacting and blending together. its was very mood uplifting listened to some kind of medieval music playing in the air while the people talking in different accent. The germen market fill up the Williamson Square 2-3 times a year with regional delights such as dry fruits, pickles, smoked meat, cheese, Germen pancakes and etc. Apart from the food, they did sell craft traders such as cuckoo clocks, glassware, scarfs and jewellery. Its such a enjoyment to see all these different colourful and unique food displayed on the racks and wooden pail.
There are tons of different colorful sweets and dry fruits, such as apple, pineapple, orange, cedar, prune, melon, fig, Angelica (dunno what the heck is that!! The greenish one which looks like some kind of vege).
pickles and nuts:Nyons, kalamata, olive stuffed with almonds (huh?!?)
Big fat cheese and cakes, waffles (stroop waffles) and biscuits from little holland (with cute wooden shoes in front of them).
Croissant and massive range of bread
A trip to Germen market would not be complete without tasting their famous long long juicy hotdog bun, its even longer than the width of my body. It’s a type of traditional germen food whereby they cook the meat on a big swing grill. I didn’t bought it though, cuz I had already tasted it before when they ran the market in Manchester last year. A bit expensive with the price of £3, but definitely worth it!!
Pic: the yummy hotdog bun with the swing grill at the centre, the smoked meat and very aromatic fried meat with dunno-what-other-ingrediant-they-put-in.
Its indeed a colorful culture experience.
