The market Zenpen one of the first "free markets" created by the economic policies of Deng Xiaoping, where farmers could sell their products. This is one of the most important and controversial attractions in Guangzhou.

Here tourists choose pet vending, buy it, kill it themselves or give to the chef, prepared her food and eat immediately. Near the entrance is the usual collection of medicinal herbs, spices, dried Scorpions, snakes, skins of leopards and tigers, poisonous mushrooms, bark of trees of different species. Then there are live animals: monkeys, turtles, owls and pigeons, aquariums with fish, frogs, toads and salamanders, anteaters, dogs and raccoons.