Random China Photos

It's green and furry and trimmed with gold and crocodile and accented with gold chains! Awesome!

This reads:

Katsugai's strawberry gummy, made from fresh strawberry
juice, is a very delicious gummy.
Please have a fun time with this strawberry gummy.

This reads:

Its translucent color so alluring and taste and
aroma so gentle and mellow offer admiring
feelings of a graceful lady. Enjoy soft and
juicy Kasugai Muscat Gummy.

This reads:

Every drop of fresh apple juice, carefully pressed
from the reddest apples, shining in colors of the
cheeks of a snow-country child, is yours to enjoy
in each soft and juicy Kasugai Apple Gummy.

Okay, I would LOVE to meet these people's marketing writer!

This is, seriously, the only lovely piece of scenery I saw in China.

It's sort of hit me that Japanese food seems to be the Great Equalizer. People who prefer Asian food like it. People who prefer western food like it. There's nothing really weird that intimidates first-timers (like duck feet, goose intestines, etc). I had always thought that middle American food was pretty unintimidating, but I realized I had it all wrong the first time I saw a European taste root beer for the first time. Apparently, it strikes them as medicinal-tasting. Not to mention PBJs! Nobody appreciates a PBJ like an American!

Su came back with me to Hong Kong on my way back home so we could hang out a bit and catch up on college gossip. :) We had dinner in TST and went to a night market. The hotel that my work puts me at in Hong Kong is very nice in a western sense. I mean, it's actually tasteful. No plastic palm trees or multi-colored sparkles. :(

But the guy had a heart of stone!