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Paul Dudley | all galleries >> 22 Overseas Trips >> China 2003 >> Album 8: Hangzhou: Prosperity, tea, and a monastery > Hangzhou hyperbaric biscuits?
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20-SEP-2003 Paul D.

Hangzhou hyperbaric biscuits?

Scene: Man in city street working bellows with his foot to keep the fire roaring,
while rotating bomb-like object with his left hand. Smiling Chinese watching him
and looking for reaction from the mystified Australian tourists. Man continues for
some minutes, then stops, removes bomb from fire. Chinese onlookers (whose feet
have been removed using Photoshop) signal Australians to cover their ears. Man
prises open lid of bomb, making a very loud bang; Australians jump, Chinese laugh.
Man shakes contents of bomb into plastic bag and offers little biscuity things, hot
and sweet, to Australians. Yum! Australian men get out wallets. No, man smiles and
shakes head, no money! Man recharges bomb with small amount of what looks like rice
and sugar and something else out of a bottle, clamps lid on bomb, starts all over
again. The pressure gauge on the bomb is inscrutable too. N.B. "Biscuit" would be
understood by Australians and Brits; Americans think the word means something else.

Minolta DiMAGE 5
1/64s f/3.4 at 14.1mm iso125 hide exif
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Date/Time20-Sep-2003 19:31:12
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Focal Length14.1 mm
Exposure Time1/64 sec
Aperturef/3.4
ISO Equivalent125
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Guest 13-May-2007 20:39
what a sweet memory...
the Chinese name for that snack is "Bao mi hua" (pop-rice)