We went to China last year, much to my delight, on a canal ride, dropping us “tourists” off at an undesignated stop, much to our Chinese guides panic to get us back to bus area, we saw something of this wet market, I took photos, jumpy little bugs, live eels in a bucket of water, and so forth, with fires ready to cook to your choosing of theses delicacies.
There were scooters beeping anyone out of the way, and I felt just like a local chinese would feel, a little disrespected, life a bit cheap, it was a real walk amongst the walk of locals.
We were soon ushered away and back to tourist modus but that bit of reality, was more exciting to me than any 6 star hotel we stayed at.
Now, some years ago, it came to the attention of old Chinese men eating babies boiled in a big pot, to improve their manhood, either from aborted or stillborn, the photos I saw back then were gross.
I had a quick look and found this link about something similar.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/31/chinese-cannibalism-infant-fles...