Chocolate coins are always popular when luck is scarce.
I’ve been spending time with William Wang, a local chef at a hotel. He has the capacity to transform what’s pictured above into what’s pictured below. Seafood or Hai Xian, literally meaning “sea fresh,” is the constant fare along the coast and freshness is of the uptmost importance. Seasonal cooking is important when dealing with seafood in China because harvesting times are often limited.
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Night markets are popular in China, as is photographing them. The photographs of bustling neon lights with busy locals and bewildered laowai, or foreigners, have their own charm and life. But so do the ones with no one in them at all.
This is one that does close, and it is quiet when that time comes. There is a quintessentially Asian post-apocalyptic feel to everything, even and perhaps especially where your food comes from.