Hey all! So, I updated the blog's appearance just a bit but we haven't written in a while.
Not much to report. Our biggest news is that we bought a rice cooker. The salewoman at the supermarket was very nice and patient with us. Surprisingly enough, there is an aisle full of rice cookers to browse when you're in the market for this small appliance. They range in price from 49- 500+ kuai, but we were definitely looking on the lower end of the spectrum. Even so, we had 5 or 6 to choose from. Most of the cheaper rice cookers are white/pink and covered in flowers. Steve told me that he didn't really want a flowery rice cooker to bedeck our kitchen and I told the saleswoman as much. Lucky for us, the model we were interested in came in two designs! So we decided on a 79kuai (on sale from 99), white with pink swirlies beauty. And boy can she cook some rice! Just throw some rice and water in there and don't even worry about it, cause the cooker has it under control. This purchase came after several attempts to cook rice in our paper thin pots and burning it every time. I make a lot of rice back home (it's a staple in Braun dinner fare), but I'd never had this burning problem before! So the rice cooker is a bit of a cheater system, but worth the dough we shelled out. Now we have fresh, delicious, perfectly cooked rice anytime we want it.
On a very unrelated note, there is a great art display comparing Western and Eastern life that you can see here (or click on the post title). These were done by a Chinese woman who grew up in China and moved to Germany when she was in her early teens. A strikingly simple concept that really nails some of the differences between Eastern and Western culture. There are a few I don't quite agree with, but see for yourself and let us know what you think. If you have no idea what's going on in these pictures, click on the Will-Excel TESOL blog link on the right. One of our co-workers who has lived here for a few years and has a Chinese wife posted a few of the pictures with his personal commentary which should help you to understand the meaning a bit better.
Also, several people have told us that they've had trouble leaving a comment on the blog. We can't figure out why, but it seems that if you post as Anonymous it works better than trying to post from a google/yahoo/whatever account. Just sign your name in the comment if you want to let us know who you are!
Thanks for reading! 再见 (zai jian) !
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Good things on the web
It's an amazing thing, the internet.. eh? I've often wondered how different my life would have been if I had lived in a time completely devoid of internet (ahem, 15 years ago...). I still recall doing book reports with nothing but the library card catalog system, but honestly I am a child of the world wide web. I can't imagine what college would have been like without my friends Google and Blackboard. Maybe one of the coolest hang out spots at Clemson, the Robert Muldrow Cooper Library, would have made more sense to me.... I mean, I always wondered what all of those shelves full of bound papers were all about. Sometimes they got in the way of all of my friends sitting at one table with our laptops and coffees.
But anyway, this is the first time I've kept a blog and I must say that the most surprising thing I've found is that people I don't know have read it. I write posts with the assumption that those reading the blog know me, so they know my sense of humor and my outlook on the world and life. They know that my ramblings are merely observations made after 4 years of studying Chinese culture, history, and anthropology and almost a [collective] year of living in China. A lot of things written are meant to be taken with a grain of Steve/Jaclyn salt, which is difficult to do if you don't know us. So if you're out there reading this and have no idea who Steve and Jaclyn Spangler are....well I don't know how to tell you about us in just a sentence or two. Hopefully you won't judge us too harshly....
But honestly, what amazes me is how others even find the blog! I've run google searches and have never hit on SpanglersinChina.blogspot.com. Fascinating... just goes to show you how powerful the internet can be. Of course, I understand reading blogs with which you have no personal association. I do it too! Sometimes they provide answers to google queries, sometimes I link to them through friends' sites or recommendations, and other times I just stumble upon them. It really is interesting to gain a glimpse of someone else's perspective on life and thereby understand your own outlook just a little bit better.
One reason I'm surprised that others read our blog is that I'm bad at surfing the web. Steve can spend all day on the computer finding interesting things, reading reviews and specs on various products, and going from site to site, but I just check my e-mail and occasionally peruse facebook. If I have any questions about life or the universe and '42' just doesn't seem to answer them, I'll run a search. Every once in a while I'll stumble upon some other sites or get sent a link from family/friends. So here are some websites I've been reading lately. Some are blogs and some are official news sites. In case you're web-surfing impaired like me, maybe you'll find these interesting.
A guy doing some good with coffee:
Company website- http://www.DrinkCoffeeDoGood.com
Personal blog- http://jonathangolden.typepad.com/
Woody Harrelson's zombie qualms:
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/10/woody.harrelson.zombie/index.html
A place to get a good ol' fashioned Amurrrican name:
http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/12054/
A blog entitled 'Simple Bliss' written by a girl who wonders why she has migraines:
http://vanessa.hoozh.net/
And although I want to post more links, I am out of ideas...
But anyway, this is the first time I've kept a blog and I must say that the most surprising thing I've found is that people I don't know have read it. I write posts with the assumption that those reading the blog know me, so they know my sense of humor and my outlook on the world and life. They know that my ramblings are merely observations made after 4 years of studying Chinese culture, history, and anthropology and almost a [collective] year of living in China. A lot of things written are meant to be taken with a grain of Steve/Jaclyn salt, which is difficult to do if you don't know us. So if you're out there reading this and have no idea who Steve and Jaclyn Spangler are....well I don't know how to tell you about us in just a sentence or two. Hopefully you won't judge us too harshly....
But honestly, what amazes me is how others even find the blog! I've run google searches and have never hit on SpanglersinChina.blogspot.com. Fascinating... just goes to show you how powerful the internet can be. Of course, I understand reading blogs with which you have no personal association. I do it too! Sometimes they provide answers to google queries, sometimes I link to them through friends' sites or recommendations, and other times I just stumble upon them. It really is interesting to gain a glimpse of someone else's perspective on life and thereby understand your own outlook just a little bit better.
One reason I'm surprised that others read our blog is that I'm bad at surfing the web. Steve can spend all day on the computer finding interesting things, reading reviews and specs on various products, and going from site to site, but I just check my e-mail and occasionally peruse facebook. If I have any questions about life or the universe and '42' just doesn't seem to answer them, I'll run a search. Every once in a while I'll stumble upon some other sites or get sent a link from family/friends. So here are some websites I've been reading lately. Some are blogs and some are official news sites. In case you're web-surfing impaired like me, maybe you'll find these interesting.
A guy doing some good with coffee:
Company website- http://www.DrinkCoffeeDoGood.com
Personal blog- http://jonathangolden.typepad.com/
Woody Harrelson's zombie qualms:
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/10/woody.harrelson.zombie/index.html
A place to get a good ol' fashioned Amurrrican name:
http://rumandmonkey.com/
A blog entitled 'Simple Bliss' written by a girl who wonders why she has migraines:
http://vanessa.hoozh.net/
And although I want to post more links, I am out of ideas...
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Thumbing my way
As the great American singer/songwriter Eddie Vedder once put it, "No matter how cold the winter, there's a springtime ahead." This lyric has never struck such a chord with me as it did today, while I was listening to my iPod and walking down the street as a warm Spring breeze caressed my face. It is absolutely beautiful here, with temperatures in the 50s and 60s, and a high of 71F tomorrow! We can only hope this weather lasts for months to come.
Anyway, one of our devoted readers has sent a laundry list of questions about life in China, so I am going to do my best to answer a few of them. Here goes...
1. Please tell us about Chinese tv (if you have one), radio, newspapers...how do you get the news? Is satellite unknown where you are? If you have a tv, do you pay for that service (like cable)?
We do have a TV, but we only get one channel. This channel comes in only when it wants to. We have tried messing with our antenna and tying a metal spatula to the antenna, but all to little or no avail. This one channel is the local Harbin channel, which shows Harbin news and weather and a lot of extended commercials for local hospitals, etc. When the Winter Universiade (worldwide college sports competition) was here in February we were able to watch a few of the competitions on our fuzzy channel. We could pay for cable if we wanted it. I had a Chinese woman tell me that it was quite cheap, maybe $15 for the whole year. Cable consists of almost all Chinese language channels, with the exception of CCTV9 which shows some English language news and has short Chinese lessons. I have not heard of anyone who has satellite TV, but I honestly don't know if this is an option or not. We catch up on most of our news at CNN.com and TheOnion.com, because these are the two most reliable news source to which we have access.
2. What do the Chinese think of Obama? Do they like him? Do they even know who he is?
Steve and I have had several university classes called "one-offs" wherein you teach a university class that is normally taught by a Chinese teacher for one class period [of their semester] so that they can get some exposure to a native speaker. In these classes I often talk about Obama. All of the Chinese people know who he is and most seem to like him very much. However, they know almost nothing about him. The most common things you hear are that they like him much more than Bush (when I was here two years ago they all hated P. Bush) and they realize that for America to have a black president is a big step in our history. Sometimes they don't understand why, so I use the example of their attitude toward the Japanese and say, "It's kind of like if you had a Japanese president 100 years from now." I think this usually paints a pretty vivid picture for them. Many of the students ask me about the economic crisis as a side note to this conversation. I tell them that Americans have a lot of faith in Obama to "fix" things. The English level of these students is usually quite low, so I explain to them using a few key vocabulary words how we feel about Obama and it usually goes something like this: "Things in America are very bad right now. I know many people who have lost their jobs. We hope, we hope (I usually repeat a lot and re-emphasize things because their listening skills aren't great), that President Obama can fix the economy. But, Obama is very young, yes? and doesn't have very much experience, yes? so we do not know yet. We like Obama and we hope that he can do it. What do you think?" Often, students respond that they believe in America and have faith that things will be set right quickly. This is always interesting for me to hear and I'm not sure if they mean it or not.
3. What does a Chinese map of the world look like? I suppose China is at the center; does it feel funny to look at it like that? Do the Chinese know world geography very well?
Yes, a Chinese map has China at the center, with America across the Pacific to it's right. It does seem a little odd sometimes at first glance when I look at the map. It's like, "Wow, something is really off with South America.. oh wait, that's Africa." It is difficult to know whether or not they know geography very well because of the language gap, but I would lean toward saying no to this question. I have tried to talk about Mexican food and the reason we learn Spanish in America, but I often can not get them to say either the Chinese or the English for Mexico. I'll draw a little map and be like, "You know, the country under America..?" They just shake their heads. There have also been other instances when students couldn't name a country in Chinese or English, so I think that geography is not as emphasized in school as other subjects. I do know that most of their curriculum is based around math and Chinese language.
4. Do the Chinese teens/young adults listen to American music? What do they listen to? Do they all have IPods? Blackberries?
Yes, teens and young adults do listen to some American music. I would say more than half of the older students I've taught could name a few American artists. However, not all. And the artists they know are often a bit out of date or odd picks... For example, boys here love the Backstreet Boys and are shocked to learn that this was 13 year old girl music many years ago in America. Avril Lavigne is also a very common name that I hear, which I think is strange. Their main focus is on pop music, because that is what they can find. I do have a one-on-one student who likes "underground" music, but I haven't discovered which artists he means yet. They also like techno and club type music. Just about every person with any money in China has either a really nice cell phone that plays MP3s or an MP3/MP4 player. iPods are quite rare, but people do have them. MP3 players are so plentiful and cheap that an iPod seems like somewhat of a waste to most of them. However, they seem to spend a lot of money on phones. Phone prices are about the same, without the bonus of 'free phone with contract' deals. So people are regularly spending a few hundred dollars on a phone that will do everything (with text messaging, internet access, and MP3 player being the most desired qualities) when they might not make this much money in a month. It's just an important purchase for them and has quickly become a 'must have' for all Chinese people in cities.
Anyway, one of our devoted readers has sent a laundry list of questions about life in China, so I am going to do my best to answer a few of them. Here goes...
1. Please tell us about Chinese tv (if you have one), radio, newspapers...how do you get the news? Is satellite unknown where you are? If you have a tv, do you pay for that service (like cable)?
We do have a TV, but we only get one channel. This channel comes in only when it wants to. We have tried messing with our antenna and tying a metal spatula to the antenna, but all to little or no avail. This one channel is the local Harbin channel, which shows Harbin news and weather and a lot of extended commercials for local hospitals, etc. When the Winter Universiade (worldwide college sports competition) was here in February we were able to watch a few of the competitions on our fuzzy channel. We could pay for cable if we wanted it. I had a Chinese woman tell me that it was quite cheap, maybe $15 for the whole year. Cable consists of almost all Chinese language channels, with the exception of CCTV9 which shows some English language news and has short Chinese lessons. I have not heard of anyone who has satellite TV, but I honestly don't know if this is an option or not. We catch up on most of our news at CNN.com and TheOnion.com, because these are the two most reliable news source to which we have access.
2. What do the Chinese think of Obama? Do they like him? Do they even know who he is?
Steve and I have had several university classes called "one-offs" wherein you teach a university class that is normally taught by a Chinese teacher for one class period [of their semester] so that they can get some exposure to a native speaker. In these classes I often talk about Obama. All of the Chinese people know who he is and most seem to like him very much. However, they know almost nothing about him. The most common things you hear are that they like him much more than Bush (when I was here two years ago they all hated P. Bush) and they realize that for America to have a black president is a big step in our history. Sometimes they don't understand why, so I use the example of their attitude toward the Japanese and say, "It's kind of like if you had a Japanese president 100 years from now." I think this usually paints a pretty vivid picture for them. Many of the students ask me about the economic crisis as a side note to this conversation. I tell them that Americans have a lot of faith in Obama to "fix" things. The English level of these students is usually quite low, so I explain to them using a few key vocabulary words how we feel about Obama and it usually goes something like this: "Things in America are very bad right now. I know many people who have lost their jobs. We hope, we hope (I usually repeat a lot and re-emphasize things because their listening skills aren't great), that President Obama can fix the economy. But, Obama is very young, yes? and doesn't have very much experience, yes? so we do not know yet. We like Obama and we hope that he can do it. What do you think?" Often, students respond that they believe in America and have faith that things will be set right quickly. This is always interesting for me to hear and I'm not sure if they mean it or not.
3. What does a Chinese map of the world look like? I suppose China is at the center; does it feel funny to look at it like that? Do the Chinese know world geography very well?
Yes, a Chinese map has China at the center, with America across the Pacific to it's right. It does seem a little odd sometimes at first glance when I look at the map. It's like, "Wow, something is really off with South America.. oh wait, that's Africa." It is difficult to know whether or not they know geography very well because of the language gap, but I would lean toward saying no to this question. I have tried to talk about Mexican food and the reason we learn Spanish in America, but I often can not get them to say either the Chinese or the English for Mexico. I'll draw a little map and be like, "You know, the country under America..?" They just shake their heads. There have also been other instances when students couldn't name a country in Chinese or English, so I think that geography is not as emphasized in school as other subjects. I do know that most of their curriculum is based around math and Chinese language.
4. Do the Chinese teens/young adults listen to American music? What do they listen to? Do they all have IPods? Blackberries?
Yes, teens and young adults do listen to some American music. I would say more than half of the older students I've taught could name a few American artists. However, not all. And the artists they know are often a bit out of date or odd picks... For example, boys here love the Backstreet Boys and are shocked to learn that this was 13 year old girl music many years ago in America. Avril Lavigne is also a very common name that I hear, which I think is strange. Their main focus is on pop music, because that is what they can find. I do have a one-on-one student who likes "underground" music, but I haven't discovered which artists he means yet. They also like techno and club type music. Just about every person with any money in China has either a really nice cell phone that plays MP3s or an MP3/MP4 player. iPods are quite rare, but people do have them. MP3 players are so plentiful and cheap that an iPod seems like somewhat of a waste to most of them. However, they seem to spend a lot of money on phones. Phone prices are about the same, without the bonus of 'free phone with contract' deals. So people are regularly spending a few hundred dollars on a phone that will do everything (with text messaging, internet access, and MP3 player being the most desired qualities) when they might not make this much money in a month. It's just an important purchase for them and has quickly become a 'must have' for all Chinese people in cities.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Utilities and the like
A few more things that I wanted to get out there:
- It's my Dad's birthday... HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD! And Amy's birthday was yesterday... HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMY! And I think there are a lot of other birthdays coming up, so if it's your birthday then... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
- A few weeks ago the electric company shut off our power because the money that had been fronted by our school [for electricity] had been used up and apparently we had consumed a bit too much power [without payment] for the comfort of the electric company. So off it went. Upon inspection, Steve immediately noticed that the big box on the 3rd floor that houses everyones power meters had a smaller box above it with the breaker switches. This box was not locked. Steve knew that we could just flip our switch back on, then we'd have power, and voila! problem solved. We did the right thing, however, and went and paid the bill with some extra deposit. (In case you're curious but you're too politely Western to ask, I'll tell you how much it costs: It was about $20 for a month and a half of electricity, but this was when we had a 3rd person living with us and we often plugged in our space heaters overnight. I'm expecting power costs to go down in the next few months.) Of course, Steve needed to plug in the hot water heater so he could take a shower before class... so we saved the power company the trouble of coming over to flip our switch back on and went ahead and did it ourselves.
- A woman came to our door sometime last week with a stapled packet of receipts. I could understand very little of what she was saying, but I knew that she wanted us to pay her some money. When we told her we weren't interested, she told us that that wasn't an option and that the whole building was paying her. Steve was still very hesitant to hand over the money, but I told him that I knew she wanted us to pay her money and that she wasn't going to leave until we did... I could understand that much of her Chinese! (Of course, our neighbors were watching much of this from their door.) Steve did the smart thing and called the school and had her talk to one of the Chinese staff. Turns out, she's our local garbage lady! Actually, I think she was the business end (hence the money collecting) and her husband is probably the working end. A true Mom and Pop operation, if you will. Anyway, we owed 14 kuai for 3 months of garbage service. (You just stick your bags of garbage, which are all tiny sized [think bathroom garbage can], in the stairwell and they eventually get picked up by some mysterious entity. I often see a man with a biycle retrofitted with a large trailer completely heaped full of tiny garbage bags, so no garbage trucks here.) Well, they are mysterious no more! Can you believe we had to pay $2.05 for this service! Outrageous prices, I'm thinking of switching to another company....
- It's my Dad's birthday... HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD! And Amy's birthday was yesterday... HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMY! And I think there are a lot of other birthdays coming up, so if it's your birthday then... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
- A few weeks ago the electric company shut off our power because the money that had been fronted by our school [for electricity] had been used up and apparently we had consumed a bit too much power [without payment] for the comfort of the electric company. So off it went. Upon inspection, Steve immediately noticed that the big box on the 3rd floor that houses everyones power meters had a smaller box above it with the breaker switches. This box was not locked. Steve knew that we could just flip our switch back on, then we'd have power, and voila! problem solved. We did the right thing, however, and went and paid the bill with some extra deposit. (In case you're curious but you're too politely Western to ask, I'll tell you how much it costs: It was about $20 for a month and a half of electricity, but this was when we had a 3rd person living with us and we often plugged in our space heaters overnight. I'm expecting power costs to go down in the next few months.) Of course, Steve needed to plug in the hot water heater so he could take a shower before class... so we saved the power company the trouble of coming over to flip our switch back on and went ahead and did it ourselves.
- A woman came to our door sometime last week with a stapled packet of receipts. I could understand very little of what she was saying, but I knew that she wanted us to pay her some money. When we told her we weren't interested, she told us that that wasn't an option and that the whole building was paying her. Steve was still very hesitant to hand over the money, but I told him that I knew she wanted us to pay her money and that she wasn't going to leave until we did... I could understand that much of her Chinese! (Of course, our neighbors were watching much of this from their door.) Steve did the smart thing and called the school and had her talk to one of the Chinese staff. Turns out, she's our local garbage lady! Actually, I think she was the business end (hence the money collecting) and her husband is probably the working end. A true Mom and Pop operation, if you will. Anyway, we owed 14 kuai for 3 months of garbage service. (You just stick your bags of garbage, which are all tiny sized [think bathroom garbage can], in the stairwell and they eventually get picked up by some mysterious entity. I often see a man with a biycle retrofitted with a large trailer completely heaped full of tiny garbage bags, so no garbage trucks here.) Well, they are mysterious no more! Can you believe we had to pay $2.05 for this service! Outrageous prices, I'm thinking of switching to another company....
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Some things you should know...
I still don't know what all I've thought of to post, but here are a few things that I can remember right now:
A. It's getting really warm! The high today is 57F and tomorrow it will be 62!! Junk, that was quick. The weather is always so bittersweet (no matter where you live) because when it's super cold you think of nothing but warmth. However, as soon as it gets hot you yearn for the cold and layered clothing. Where is it that has nothing but spring and autumn again...?
B. Anyone [Chinese] that I talk to thinks I'm Russian. At least once a day I have to say, "Wo bu shi Eguoren (I'm not Russian)." Even when I teach university classes and the students know that I am their English teacher they ask if I am from Russia. A taxi driver once handed me a Russian phrase book that he had been studying so that I could check it out and another taxi driver asked me to translate the meaning of a Russian word for him. I suppose this is mainly because we live so close to Russia and the history of Russia and Harbin are closely connected. I see this problem as having a good and a bad side.
Bad: If China and Russia have some big falling out [for whatever reason], I'm gonna have to get the heck out of Dodge!
Good: On the flip side, if America and China have some big falling out all I have to do is say, "Damn Yanks. Good to be Russian..."
*Steve has not had this problem but he says that he is rarely in the situation that someone must suppose his nationality. So not sure what they think of him except I usually get a, "He's very handsome!" from Chinese girls who hear we're married.
C. I am in this weird place between knowing that everything about China is completely different than America while at the same time not really thinking that anything about our lives in China is different than it would be back home. I've been here before. When I returned from China a few years ago people would always ask me the burning question of, "What's China like?? I mean, how different is it?" But this was the most difficult question for me to answer, because after two trips to China I had gotten accustomed to so many of the differences that I barely registered them as "differences"... it was more like my brain had divided things into China and America so when I saw something I didn't think anything of it, just knew that it belonged to the China side. Having Steve with me on this 3rd trip provides an interesting perspective. We were sipping some coffee the other day and I asked if he really noticed any differences. His response was to the effect that the two countries are completely black and white, apples and oranges. So I guess that's it... the differences are so deeply and culturally seeded that they can not easily be explained. I still don't have a quick and easy answer to the, "How's it different?" question. Sorry...
D. We have found one of our new favorite treats: popcorn! Much like one of those specialty popcorn stores that sell candied popcorn of all different colors and flavors, there are some street vendors around town who stir popcorn into big vats of sugar coating of various colors and sell a bag of it for 2 kuai and it's always hot and fresh! Yummm.
A. It's getting really warm! The high today is 57F and tomorrow it will be 62!! Junk, that was quick. The weather is always so bittersweet (no matter where you live) because when it's super cold you think of nothing but warmth. However, as soon as it gets hot you yearn for the cold and layered clothing. Where is it that has nothing but spring and autumn again...?
B. Anyone [Chinese] that I talk to thinks I'm Russian. At least once a day I have to say, "Wo bu shi Eguoren (I'm not Russian)." Even when I teach university classes and the students know that I am their English teacher they ask if I am from Russia. A taxi driver once handed me a Russian phrase book that he had been studying so that I could check it out and another taxi driver asked me to translate the meaning of a Russian word for him. I suppose this is mainly because we live so close to Russia and the history of Russia and Harbin are closely connected. I see this problem as having a good and a bad side.
Bad: If China and Russia have some big falling out [for whatever reason], I'm gonna have to get the heck out of Dodge!
Good: On the flip side, if America and China have some big falling out all I have to do is say, "Damn Yanks. Good to be Russian..."
*Steve has not had this problem but he says that he is rarely in the situation that someone must suppose his nationality. So not sure what they think of him except I usually get a, "He's very handsome!" from Chinese girls who hear we're married.
C. I am in this weird place between knowing that everything about China is completely different than America while at the same time not really thinking that anything about our lives in China is different than it would be back home. I've been here before. When I returned from China a few years ago people would always ask me the burning question of, "What's China like?? I mean, how different is it?" But this was the most difficult question for me to answer, because after two trips to China I had gotten accustomed to so many of the differences that I barely registered them as "differences"... it was more like my brain had divided things into China and America so when I saw something I didn't think anything of it, just knew that it belonged to the China side. Having Steve with me on this 3rd trip provides an interesting perspective. We were sipping some coffee the other day and I asked if he really noticed any differences. His response was to the effect that the two countries are completely black and white, apples and oranges. So I guess that's it... the differences are so deeply and culturally seeded that they can not easily be explained. I still don't have a quick and easy answer to the, "How's it different?" question. Sorry...
D. We have found one of our new favorite treats: popcorn! Much like one of those specialty popcorn stores that sell candied popcorn of all different colors and flavors, there are some street vendors around town who stir popcorn into big vats of sugar coating of various colors and sell a bag of it for 2 kuai and it's always hot and fresh! Yummm.
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