Peach so cheap!
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 at
10:39 am
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Unusual, flat looking peaches I bought from a Beijing street vendor
My goodness. It’s peach season in Beijing. I saw vendors selling them everywhere. And they are so cheap. 1 kilo (2.2 pounds) of the juicy peach was selling for Remminbi 4. That’s about Ringgit 2 or USD0.60 for that 2 pounds of fruit! You can bet I ate them every single day because nowhere else can I get fresh raw peaches this cheap! Those who know me knows I advocate eating more raw food for health reasons. So, it’s a real yummy treat. Anyways, it beats having to eat crappy airline food.
"Tasty" airline food. Today's menu: soggy tuna sandwiches.
The only problem I had was lugging those enormously heavy, yummy, sweet, raw fruits around in my bag. It’s no joke. One peach weighs an average of half a pound or a quarter kilo. And I normally buy 1 kilo at a go. That and my 1 liter bottled water, AND all the shopping my hands can carry. Shaun, my sweet but mostly absent husband, was no help because he was happily, happily holed up at a convention center near the famous Bird’s Nest Olympic stadium from morning till night, thrilled to be in the presence of magic. He’s not about to go shopping snore for fear of missing anything spectacular!
Speaking of spectacular, here’s another magical video you have to watch! It’s the FISM 2009 Magic Manipulation 1st place tie winner - Seol-Hui Han (Korea). This young guy is just too so fast with his hands …. you won’t want him to be pickpocketing around you ….. he is THAT fast LOL.
Han Seol-Hui (Double quick stage sleight of hand)
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(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
