Beautiful fruit and vegetables -  Dhaka is a dense city, full of people and innumerable rickshaws of both bicycle and motorized type, dented buses, cars, and the usual grimy street dirt so the piles of wonderful fruit and vegetables are a delight to the eye.  Sellers with the carved amra on sticks walked between the cars trying to sell them during rush hour and earlier in the day one vendor permitted me to photograph him carving his wares.  The amra is tangy like lemon, very high in vitamin C, and the Bangla like to eat them with a sprinkling of salt and chili pepper (our wonderful housekeeping-wallah from Calcutta told me this). 

There were also amla for sale.  They are Indian gooseberries and look like over sized European gooseberries.  Perhaps it is really that the Indian gooseberry was schlepped off to Europe where it didn't thrive so well and is thus smaller? :)

The other delightful instant food (not that we ate any of it) were the beautifully almost completely peeled cucumbers cut down to the stem in 8 parts so that it opened rather like a  long flower that the vendors sprinkled a bit of oil and lime juice on.