I Went Fruit Shopping Today
I went fruit shopping today. It was the first really warm day of the early Spring, about 72 F in the shade. This fruit store is across from a university and gets a lot of students because its prices are exceptionally low. I buy strawberries there for about 6.5 rmb a pound (that's about one US dollar).
Electric motor scooters are the typical transportation.
It's always crowded.
Got to work your way in.
See the cherry tomatoes in the picture above? The Chinese consider them to be a fruit and eat them as dessert.
They buy sugar canes, and then this guy strips the bark off of them and cuts them into about one foot lengths.
Here he is stripping the bark off. The people chew on them, sucking up the juice and spit out the fiber. My wife loves it, sometimes waits in line for an hour to get the bark stripped off.
Although I didn't buy any fruit today, it was a great day for a walk. Near this market is a big bookstore that sells the books the university students need. I love hanging out in book stores, and I found the books there I will be needing for teaching English. After that walk I just came back to the computer again. It was a really nice warm sunny day.
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