The centre aisle of Bourda Market is usually the liveliest. It is where the butchers dwell. The rhythmic sounds of their choppers resonate off their chopping boards and through the passageway, having only just cut their way through meat and bone.
At intervals, the owners of the stalls or their helpers would direct their attention to the shoppers strolling through the aisle, urging them to examine the meat on offer.
If you enter the middle aisle from Orange Walk you will, most likely, encounter Andrea Hack first. She is by no means the only woman in the business of selling meat, though her white overcoat tends to catch the eye. She too beckons to customers to come closer, to examine what Hack’s Halaal Butchery has to offer. Once you show an
