Tokyo Trip (Part2)

More pics coming up from my Tokyo trip. Mich & Rumiko had arranged to take us on a visit to Tsukiji market. Apparently, Tsukiji market is one of the world's biggest market. And it was really massive to me. Check out some of the pics below :

SW, Khim & EJ

Part of Tsukiji market

Mich brought us to the Tuna auction floor. And boy was it impressive. There was this huge hall and a lot of people as even more tuna. All over the floor! Huge ones, like probably 50kg ~ 100kgs. All the tuna had pieces of paper with names of the company that owns them and weight and other details pasted on.

Huge Tuna sitting on the floor waiting to get auctioned off

Buyers discussing amongst themselves just before the auction starts

I bet this tuna weighs more than me!

It took 3 men to cut up this tuna!!!

Using a wooden board to move part of the tuna

Check out the knife (or sword!) used to cut the tuna!

Then after that, we moved on to see frozen tuna auction. Again, the same sight of a huge hall, but this time, with a lot of frozen tuna lying all over the place.

Dead cold tuna...

A guy making notes of his tuna

Buyers inspecting the tuna before the auction starts

This guy is cute. He shouts very loud a whole string of numbers and prices at high speed and in a sing-song manner.

Of course, other than tuna, there were also a lot of other seafood in the market.

Giant cockles & clams

Sea urchin (scary looking...)

Red Fish

Whale meat (That's what Mich said)

Different types of frozen prawns

Yellow-tail king fish

A skilled butcher filleting a live eel

Fried Octopus in brine (Don't ask me why it's so red)

Erm... I have no idea what that is... Mich, what's that???

And there are loads more pics I have . And I need to confess here, some pics were shamelessly "stolen" from Tweetie's camera. Hahahahaha... But she's aware. I told her! Stay tuned people. Will post more once I have time...