Fish Market - Mina Zayed
Working seafood souk where fishmongers auction the morning catch and cooks grill it while you wait.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the fish market at Mina Zayed in Abu Dhabi opens with a cooperative manager bristling at the idea that the place has any real history, insisting it is barely decades old. It traces the dallal, the auctioneer who has been shouting prices here since fishermen first unloaded boats in the nineteen seventies, through to the 2022 rebuild that replaced ad hoc sheds with a proper hall of stalls and cleaning stations. Watch the screen above the stalls for your ticket number once you have picked your fish off the ice.
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