点评:This is Faro’s large, modern market hall with a vast variety of food stalls and some (simple but very good) restaurants and coffee shops on the ground floor, offices and other services (including a judo club!) on the top floor and a large, very good supermarket (Auchan) and underground car park on the lower floor. The Mercado is in the town centre, just a ten-minute walk from Faro’s Marina and even less to the pedestrianised shopping streets. Inside, it seems fully accessible with stairs, escalators and lifts. If you’re looking for deposit-return machines (Volta), they’re located just inside the pedestrian door to the car park as you enter it from the direction of the supermarket.
As a tourist, you will probably call here to check-out the amazing food stalls. If you do, make sure to come in the morning and I’d say definitely no later than 14h, because vendors start early and close early. Whether you intend to cook at your self-catering accommodation, pick up some items for a picknick lunch or even to take back to your home country, you’re sure to find excellent produce here. There are butchers and delicatessens, fish and seafood sellers, fruit and vegetables vendors, bakeries, you can buy honey, preserves, nuts, there are some specialist stalls including potters, florists, seamstress / dressmaker but also some generic knickknacks. One vendor specialises in every type of dried peas, beans, lentils, chickpeas etc you can think of.
We stayed in Faro for a week and bought here often. We found that some vendors have excellent English, others just a smattering and others none, but it didn’t matter because all were friendly and communication by pointing or hand waving worked very well. Of course, it doesn’t so any harm at all if you, the tourist, have and use the most basic words such as hello, please and thank you! Note that most vendors will prefer cash payment (no large notes for tiny purchases!) but many do have card readers. One point to note: If you’re a vegan / vegetarian or general animal lover and disapprove of the sale of live snails that are trying to escape the bowl they’re kept in, or live lobsters or crabs with their claws banded, or experience grief seeing amazingly beautiful but dead fish staring at you with their dead eyes, or a pig’s head displayed on a butcher’s counter, please don’t be rude to the locals! Either don’t visit those sections or walk past them. Remember that you’re a guest in those people’s country.
However, whether you just want to look and marvel at the wide range of goods on offer, or actually want to buy fresh produce, I do highly recommend a visit to the Mercado to get a feel for “the real Faro”.
翻译:这就是法鲁那座规模宏大且现代化的市场大厅:底层有各式各样的食品摊贩,还有一些(虽然简单但品质极佳的)餐馆和咖啡馆;顶层则设有办公室及其他服务设施(甚至还有一个柔道俱乐部!);下层则有一个规模很大且商品品质上乘的超市(欧尚超市)以及地下停车场。该市场位于市中心,距离法鲁码头仅十分钟步行路程,到那些禁止车辆通行的商业步行街则更近。市场内设有楼梯,整体环境似乎也完全便于通行。自动扶梯和电梯。如果您在寻找押金返还机(Volta),它们位于从超市方向进入停车场后,人行入口处的内侧。
作为游客,您很可能会来此参观那些令人惊叹的美食摊位。若如此,请务必在早晨前来,我建议最晚也不要超过下午2点,因为摊贩们起得很早,收摊也早。无论您是打算在自助式住宿处自己做饭……您可以购买一些物品用来野餐,或者带回自己的国家,这里绝对能找到品质上乘的商品。这里有肉铺和熟食店、鱼市与海鲜摊、水果蔬菜贩售处以及面包店;您还能买到蜂蜜、果酱和坚果。此外,还有一些特色摊位,比如陶艺品店、花店、裁缝店,当然也有各种普通的小饰品。有个摊主专门出售各类干豌豆、豆子、小扁豆、鹰嘴豆等等,种类多得超乎您的想象。我们在法鲁停留了一周,期间经常在这里购物。我们发现有些商贩的英语说得很好,有些只能说一点点点,还有些则完全不会说英语,但这并不碍事,因为大家都很友善,通过指指点点或挥手也能顺利交流。当然,作为游客,如果你能说出并使用“你好”、“请”和“谢谢”这些最基本的词汇,也绝对不会有什么坏处!另外请注意,大多数商贩更乐意接受现金支付(购买小件商品时可别用大额钞票哦!不过很多地方确实配有读卡器。有一点需要注意:如果你是纯素食者/素食主义者,或者是个爱护动物的人,无法接受把拼命想要从容器中逃出来的活蜗牛拿来售卖的行为;也无法接受爪子被绑起来的活龙虾或螃蟹被出售;或者看到那些美丽至极却已经死去的鱼用呆滞的眼神望着你时会感到难过;又或者看到屠宰店的柜台上摆着猪头时心里不好受,那么请千万不要对当地人无礼!要么就别去那些区域,要么直接从旁边走过吧。请记住,你是身处那个国家的客人。
不过,无论你是想看看琳琅满目的商品并惊叹一番,还是真的想购买新鲜农产品,我都极力推荐你去逛一逛那个市场,这样就能领略到“真正的法鲁”了。