also: ウエットマーケット
wet market
A market selling fresh produce, meat, seafood, and other perishable goods, often with live animals. The term is a direct loan from English and is used in contexts discussing Asian markets or food safety.
See also: 生鮮市場
At Hong Kong's wet markets, you can get fresh seafood.
Wet markets mainly deal in fresh food products.
Variant katakana spelling using ウエ instead of ウェ.
Spelling with interpunct, sometimes used for clarity.
Variant with interpunct and ウエ spelling.
Loanword from English 'wet market'.