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Visiting Batam: Poultry Market, in Pictures
22 June 20106 Comments
We took heaps of photos during our recent trip to Batam.
And here are more of them.
These shots were taken using my Canon Powershot S90, and it was when the four of us unintentionally walked past this traditional market selling live chicken and ducks!
The beauty of exploring Batam on foot.
It sure was an interesting experience for the kids.
For the first time, they saw live chicken and ducks in their … errr, far from clean cages and living conditions. They watched the chicken seller chatted with us while holding a few live chicken by the legs in her hand.
This definitely is a sight and experience they won’t find in Singapore.
Which again, what made our recent trip to Batam more memorable.
In a good way.
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Hi Johannah,
This poultry market is near the hotel where we stayed, ie. Pacific Palace Hotel (about 5 mins away from Harbour Bay Ferry Terminal)
I can’t remember any street names though, but anyway I remember when we left the hotel, we turned right and walked along the street (for at least 10mins) and the poultry market should be in one of the ‘alleys’ on your right. You can see the chicken cages from the main street, so you’ll know that’s where you need to turn right 🙂
Hope you’ll find it 🙂
Hello, I came across your website while searching for interesting sights in Batam. I’d like to know where this poultry market is as I’m intending to photograph it for a school project. (: Hope to hear from you soon!
Siska:
Nooo .. they didn’t see how they killed the chickens 🙂 It’ll be too shocking for them I think, esp. since it’s considered to be their ‘first time’ seeing live chickens up close
(if they’ve seen live chicken often for a longer period of time, I guess that’ll be different … 🙂
DC:
Agree! 🙂
We might get laughed at by village people though for not seeing live chicken around much hehe
did they see how they killed the chickens??? in Duta Mas market, they have this big deep tank of boiling water (water is still boiling) then after we chose our chooks, the seller will dip these live chickens into this tank of boiling water and that ended the chooks’ lives. which i thought it’s a quick painless death. but when i told my friends here, they thought it’s cruel. but how else do you kill the chooks? stabbing the knife takes longer i think compared to this method. anyway, how did they do it in Batam market?
Wow, I missed seeing live chickens!