These Li riverboat passengers are eating lunch and drinking beer while a young souvenir vendor, rising on the other side of their window, tries to entice interest in a trinket. But they pay no heed -- the Buddha on their lunch table suggests that they may have already exhausted their souvenir budget. There are several fascinating aspects to this image. How did this incongruous vendor magically appear outside the window of a moving riverboat? These daring young men glide into the river on narrow rafts, attach them to the sides of the moving boat just below a window, and proceed to hawk their wares silently. If tourists want to buy, they need just open the window. This image links two favorite tourist pastimes – eating and shopping. These tourists can, if they so choose, do both at the same time. But they aren’t buying anything, at least at this moment. We view a moment in suspended time that postpones such decisions. Lunch, after all, is at hand.