You are learning fresh produce: you will read the scene it happens in, take apart the pattern behind them (freshness vocabulary + market relationships), hear them in a conversation, rehearse them, and finish by saying one thing out loud to be graded.
Chợ Hàng Bè, Hoàn Kiếm — a narrow covered market two blocks from Hoàn Kiếm Lake. Opens 5am. By 9am the best is gone.
The Hàng Bè market is narrow, covered, dense — vendors so close together that shopping requires a sideways shuffle. Produce brought in each morning from surrounding provinces: water spinach from the Red River delta, herbs from the hills of Sapa, dragon fruit from Bình Thuận.
The stranger approaches a herb stall. A woman in her fifties with a bamboo hat, sorting rau thơm. He picks up a bunch. 「Chị ơi! Rau này tươi không?」
「Tươi lắm! Sáng nay mới về.」 She takes the bunch, sniffs it, hands him a different one. 「Cái này thơm hơn.」 This one is more fragrant. He doesn't question it.
「Chị chọn giúp con nhé! Cảm ơn chị!」