Pike Public Market, the modern time vibrant of downtown Seattle

If You been to Seattle, you shall not miss the famous Pike Public Market. Pike Public Market is the oldest farmer's market in the United States. It not only supplies a variety of local fresh fruits and vegetables, but has developed into an important tourist destination in Seattle, attracting tourists from all over the world, and thus attract countless craftsmen and Street performance. Here, you can enjoy the bustling "throwing fish show", you can also walk the old streets, buy a cup of Starbucks coffee shop first savor. The Pike Public Market is now a business card for the Seattle landscape, along with Seattle's Space Needle, Union Lake, Lake Washington, and Rainier Snow Mountain.

Pike Public Market Linhai architecture, natural scenery and the environment is very beautiful. Commodities five light ten mining, dazzling. Is a good place for travel and leisure. From the water to the city direction, a kind of era of the difference, but do not think Pike Public Market is dirty and messy. Look at the kind of early 20th century sense of ancient - right, that is, has entered the industrial society, but not out of the ancient sense of smallholder aesthetic. Such as those pillars, and those neon signs.

Walking around Pike Place, you can see flowers, seafood, pastries, fruits and vegetables, handmade cheeses, locally produced honey, wines and international restaurants. Market sales up, in fact, vegetables and flowers, a variety of agricultural products, carrots, cherries, garlic ... ... live fragrant. Here the fruits and vegetables are farmers since the kinds of income, all organic food. Italian pasta fancy variety, all handmade, are also organic food. All kinds of home-made wine and now baked bread business is very good.

The other side of the market is the fish market, historical and geographical reasons, Seattle has many Japanese-Americans, operating seafood is an important industry. Here are the world's best wild salmon and crab meat. All kinds of fresh. Here is the Arctic crab, there is lobster, salmon ..... all fresh are free to unpack the package.

There are several fixed time every day, in the market at the door of the seafood stall will be the famous "throwing fish show" will also run into improvisation. Those guys to throw the whole 10 kilograms of big fish thrown away, cries loud and pleasant, lively and extraordinary.

The first Starbucks store in Pike Place Market, 1912, was built in 1971 and is the place where people around the world like Starbucks coffee will surely go to Seattle. Is Starbucks headquarters location, only it can be allowed to use the brown mermaid store emblem. Starbucks was originally selling coffee beans, so store decoration like a warehouse, but also no tables and chairs for rest. But there are still a lot of people come here, prefer to stand and taste, but also here point a cup of coffee, trying to find the original taste of Starbucks coffee. Starbucks are lined up every day, and visitors from all over the world are able to drink a cup of different coffee here and buy a few souvenirs with a brown mermaid emblem. At the Starbucks entrance, artists from all over the world take turns to perform street art every day, which is also common in the United States.

Chewing gum wall, Pike Public Market in a quite curious attractions, covered with a variety of colors of chewing gum, a little bit heavy taste, but also can see a lot of creative "works."

The chewing gum wall is 50 feet long and is about 15 feet high. In 1993, the drama fans line up waiting for the drama company "unexpectedly produced" in the "market theater" launched improvisational comedy show "Seattle Theater", it was unexpectedly with chewing gum coins and some small items stick to the wall, others Upon seeing the wall is also according to gourd painting, passing through the wall, are habitually chewing finished gum sticking in that wall, the more the more sticky gum the more sticky. Market managers will initially send people to clean up, had tried to scrape off these chewing gum, restore the wall clean, but people sticky chewing gum behavior repeated, cleaning work ended in failure.

In 1999, Seattle learned that the wall was like the famous bubble gum Lane in San Bishop County, California, and was a selling point for attracting visitors, and decided to let him go and call the wall "the wall of chewing gum". In the same year, Chewing gum wall officially became a "tourist attraction", any person stick to the chewing gum above, until today.

I think every visitor to Seattle will not miss this charming Pike Public Market.


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