In the olden days of Hong Kong, all the markets looked like what are shown in the photographs. Open concept, all the fresh meats , fishes, vegetables are laid out in the open. Live seafood like fish, prawn, crabs were kept in plastic containers with air pumping in continuously to keep them alive.
These days you can hardly find this kind of wet market. Due to hygiene reasons, the health and environment ministry has gradually moved the wet markets into indoor buildings with better and cleaner environments.
When I look at wet markets now, it seems very unhygienic and dirty… but in hindsight, I was brought up eating almost everything they sold there. Haha. 
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