This place is AMAZING. It is THE place to go for fresh fish. When I first heard that the “market under the bridge” was where you go for fish I tried not to cringe. Being from Seattle, the freshest of fresh is the only acceptable way to eat fish and I would not have it any other way. #spoiledbrat #blameitonseattle Some people that I’d go grocery shopping with would buy frozen fish from the grocery store and it took all my strength to not be like Um, EW. Why are you buying that? Especially in Nigeria, like who knows how long its been frozen for?! Groceries are sketchy as it is. But some of these women are actually scared to go to the local markets and think the food will be bad. Think about it though, the markets are the best way: it’s organic without having to pay for it (like Africa can afford pesticides/growth hormones/anything artificial!) and you can massively negotiate the price whereas at the grocery price is as it is. Now you still have to be aggressive with bartering which I’m still personally working on. A white woman is given a price that is on average twice as much as a local would be given. It feels terrible to knock them down that much but THEY are good at making you feel bad. If you walk away paying the initial price they asked, the second you turn your back they are like “sucker! can you believe she paid that!” and you’ll never recover from it. Negotiating will be even harder from there on out. So I still bring my driver or stewardess with me and having them helps a lot. They assist my arguing and tell them to stop being ridiculous! They also help me understand them. Ya, it’s technically English that is spoken but it is VERY hard to understand. There is an insane amount of fish here that is all caught the same day. I bought the jumbo prawns and bbq’d them that night. I’ve never had prawns like this. It was like biting into a piece of tender steak. HEAVEN. Next I want to buy the red snapper, it looked fantastic. Ya, there are flies everywhere and it doesn’t smell good (half of that is from the people, not the grungy market) but I’m cooking it so it’s all good! Can’t wait til my next fish fix.