This is a popular street snack, which foreigners often assume is just a regular boiled egg. Framed photos of Baby Spice. Little boys tending shops filled with cognac, pig snouts, durians, jars of Tang, and cartons upon cartons of cigarettes. A girl in the window of a ground-floor apartment, sitting alone on a couch with a microphone, quietly singing to her karaoke machine. Revealingly, few caskets are longer than three feet.
Engravers carve impressive likenesses on the headstones.
A very old woman with at least 50 dozen eggs stacked atop her bicycle. A Westerner on a motorbike smashing headlong into a sidewalk lottery stall, shattering the table and knocking all the tickets into the gutter. I'd swerved to avoid the egg woman, who'd stopped in the middle of the road. Seconds later,I was in a heap of splintered wood. The stall keeper was incredibly forgiving, especially after I bought all the soaked lottery tickets.