Drive-thru Supermarket

In Can Tho, Vietnam, I walked through a street market late in the afternoon, where people were buying food for the evening. Imagine a supermarket with one very wide and long aisle, and instead of shopping carts, everyone is on a motorbike, buying fish here, vegetables there, and pineapples down the aisle, haggling over prices, and receiving their merchandise in plastic bags that drivers put into little baskets or tied to handlebars or fenders. What amazed me most was how natural it all seemed; no one was honking or shouting, yet the entire scene was alive with activity and I, as one of the only pedestrians, had to weave my way carefully through the throng of vendors and motorized shoppers.