Not only is a famous tourist destination visited by many tourists when coming to Phu Quoc, Ham Ninh fishing village also has a market specializing in selling all kinds of ‘bedroom magic’.
Although the “miracle” market is just the name of a favored tourist, visiting Ham Ninh (Phu Quoc, Kien Giang) is indeed witnessing the “upper yellow lower bran” both fresh and dry like a walrus, sea dragon, Sea cucumber, seal seal, sea beef seal …
Fresh and dried seahorses and sea dragons are available for sale at Ham Ninh market. With fresh seahorses, it costs about 5 to 8 million VND / kg, but if bought retail, a pair of large seahorses cost about 80,000 VND, the smaller pair, about 40,000 VND. With dried seahorses if straight tail (dried while alive) costs 70 thousand VND / fish, while the dried seahorses cost about 40 thousand VND / fish … The market of Ham Ninh fishing village is located right next to the wharf and for those who first come to Phu Quoc will be surprised to see countless fresh seahorses almost all colors brown, black, yellow, pink … all kinds are sold in large pots, small pots, with oxygen tubing. In the provinces bordering the western waters of the country, Phu Quoc is considered the largest natural seahorse beak. January to April each year is the breeding season of seahorses when they find rock caves, dead coral reefs … to mate. This was also the time when Phu Quoc fishermen caught the most seahorses and sold them crowdedly in Ham Ninh market. 
In addition to customers who buy for self-treatment and processing, many vendors at the “miracle” market are willing to soak for customers with “miracles” … … from cleaning seahorses and sea dragons to selling both. white wines and bottles or jugs for soaking. According to Ut Map, who has sold seahorses in Ham Ninh for more than ten years, with seahorses, saliva works best, second is the eyes. When soaking in alcohol, fresh seahorses will produce saliva, so the effect is better than dried ones, so if soaking 10 fresh seahorses, with dried seahorses to soak up to 20. Seahorses here have two types, spiny type and non-spiny type. The spiny-free type is purchased faster by the middlemen because the wine is less fishy when soaked like the spiny fish. Because of the use of seahorses for the health of men passed from each other, Ham Ninh is considered to be a place that specializes in selling all kinds of “preventive medicine”. 
In addition to seahorses, also known as walruses, there are sea dragons, which are similar in use to seahorses, which are widely sold in dry food stalls. Along with seahorses, many visitors are overwhelmed by another kind of “miracle” that is probably only available in the “miracle” market, which is seal seal, sea cow seal is hung or sold right on the front plastic trays store. Another kind of miracle that the gentlemen are looking for is sea cucumber, but in Phu Quoc it is quite rare, but at the Ham Ninh market it is still present. Although it is a natural seahorse beak, but in Phu Quoc this very cute animal is being caught in the way of salvation and destruction due to the large purchasing power of tourists. According to incomplete statistics, each year about 1 million seahorses are caught in the waters of Phu Quoc.
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