{"id":627,"date":"2021-08-27T08:30:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T12:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2021-08-29T00:20:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T04:20:40","slug":"the-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2021\/08\/27\/the-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico City has over 300 public markets and from what I can tell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/lamerced\/index.htm\">La Merced<\/a> is the biggest and most insane one of all. I&#8217;ve never seen so many nopales in one place (50 pesos for that big bag is about $2.50):<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/lamerced\/3308-21-21.jpg\" alt=\"Nopales, La Merced, Centro Hist&oacute;rico, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 21, 2021\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/lamerced\/3708-21-21.jpg\" alt=\"Nopales, La Merced, Centro Hist&oacute;rico, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 21, 2021\"><\/p>\n<p>Or shoes:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/lamerced\/0808-21-21.jpg\" alt=\"Shoes, La Merced, Centro Hist&oacute;rico, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 21, 2021\"><\/p>\n<p>Or chiles:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/lamerced\/1208-21-21.jpg\" alt=\"Peppers, La Merced, Centro Hist&oacute;rico, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 21, 2021\"><\/p>\n<p>Or mole:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/lamerced\/1308-21-21.jpg\" alt=\"Mole, La Merced, Centro Hist&oacute;rico, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 21, 2021\"><\/p>\n<p>Or banana leaves:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/lamerced\/1708-21-21.jpg\" alt=\"Banana Leaves, La Merced, Centro Hist&oacute;rico, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 21, 2021\"><\/p>\n<p>Or limes:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/lamerced\/3008-21-21.jpg\" alt=\"Limes, La Merced, Centro Hist&oacute;rico, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 21, 2021\"><\/p>\n<p>Or potatoes:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/lamerced\/3208-21-21.jpg\" alt=\"Papas Charly, Local 231, La Merced, Centro Hist&oacute;rico, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 21, 2021\"><\/p>\n<p>Or really anything you can think of. Chicken intestine, for one:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/lamerced\/3608-21-21.jpg\" alt=\"La Merced, Centro Hist&oacute;rico, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 21, 2021\"><\/p>\n<p>Really interesting spot.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, nearby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/mercadosonora\/index.htm\">Sonora Market<\/a> is the place to go for live animals and occult\/herbal\/religious items:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/mercadosonora\/0608-21-21.jpg\" alt=\"Chickens and Goats, Mercado Sonora, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 21, 2021\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/centro\/mercadosonora\/1608-21-21.jpg\" alt=\"Mercado Sonora, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 21, 2021\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico City has over 300 public markets and from what I can tell La Merced is the biggest and most insane one of all. I&#8217;ve never seen so many nopales in one place (50 pesos for that big bag is about $2.50): Or shoes: Or chiles: Or mole: Or banana leaves: Or limes: Or potatoes: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out_of_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}